Who Will Win the Tallinn Summer Showdown Main Event?
Welcome to the Final Day of the 2019 Tallinn Summer Showdown €1,100 Main Event at Olympic Park Casino. After three days of play, the field of 195 entrants was trimmed down to an eight-max final table with all players having their eyes on the €46,700 top prize.
Blind levels begin with 3:53 minutes remaining at 5,000/10,000 with an ante of 10,000 and from there increase every 60-minutes as has been the case throughout the festival. Additionally, breaks are scheduled every two blind levels.
There is a massive gap between the top of the field and the rest. Finland's Tapio Vihakas will enter tomorrow with a chip leading stack of 1,659,000. He will be closely followed by countrymates Mathias Siljander with 1,590,000 and Jussi Mattila with 1,581,000.
The rest of the final eight don't even have one-quarter of the chips of any player in this Finnish trio with Estonia's Toomas Polli (342,000), Morocco's Ahmed Ibrahimi (285,000), Finland's Kim Lindstrom (178,000), Finland's Aki Pyysing (148,000), and Lithuania's Algimantas Jablonskis (83,000) all entering the day with shorter stacks.
Cards will be in the air at 12:30 p.m. EEST and will be streamed on a 30-minute delay. You can check out the action on the Live Stream tab in our coverage once it is live. The charismatic Kristjan Laas will be behind the booth announcing the action in Estonian with all hole cards exposed.
Stay tuned at PokerNews as we will report all of the important hands and eliminations on the same delay starting at 1:00 p.m.
Final Table Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds (Level 19) | Big Blinds (Level 20) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Algimantas Jablonskis | Lithuania | 83,000 | 8 | 7 |
| 2 | Toomas Polli | Estonia | 342,000 | 34 | 29 |
| 3 | Ahmed Ibrahimi | Morocco | 285,000 | 29 | 24 |
| 4 | Jussi Mattila | Finland | 1,581,000 | 158 | 132 |
| 5 | Tapio Vihakas | Finland | 1,659,000 | 166 | 138 |
| 6 | Mathias Siljander | Finland | 1,590,000 | 159 | 133 |
| 7 | Aki Pyysing | Finland | 178,000 | 18 | 15 |
| 8 | Kim Lindstrom | Finland | 248,000 | 25 | 21 |
*3:53 remaining with blinds at 5,000/10,000 and a big blind ante of 10,000
Final Table Payouts
The eight returning players are each guaranteed a €5,130 with all players having their eyes on the €46,700 top prize and the trophy going to the winner.
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | € 46,700 |
| 2 | € 32,200 |
| 3 | € 19,500 |
| 4 | € 15,000 |
| 5 | € 11,500 |
| 6 | € 8,200 |
| 7 | € 6,400 |
| 8 | € 5,130 |
*Images courtesy of Elena Kask / Tallinn Summer Showdown
and got calls from Jussi Mattila on the button with 
and Mathias Siljander in the big blind with 
.
flop and Mattila bet 35,000. Siljander raised to 120,000 and got a fold from Ibrahimi and a call from Mattila.
came on the turn. Siljander then paired the board after the 
and took down the pot after both players checked.
. Jussi Mattila from one seat over with 
limps behind as does Kim Lindstrom with 
from the button and Toomas Polli from the big blind with 
.
came on the flop. Mattila called before LIndstrom jammed for 133,000. Polli folded and both Ibrahimi and Mattila called.
before Aki Pyysing three-bet shoved for 285,000 with 
from the cutoff.
board and he was eliminated in seventh place for €6,400. Meanwhile, Vihakas got his stack up to 1.7 million for the most chips he has had thus far today.
flop gave him a flush draw.
on the turn and the 
completed the board on the river. Siljander bet more than the 209,000 Ibrahimi had behind and got a snap-call.
from the cutoff.
and got a call from Vihakas.
came on the turn. Vihakas then fired out for 350,000 after the 
from the big blind.
board didn't help Jablonskis and his run of surviving seven all-in situations in a row ended at that. The remaining three players went on a short break after the hand.
