€550 Main Event
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2022 The Festival in Tallinn
€550 Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Players Info - Day 4
2022 The Festival in Tallinn
Buy-in
€500
Entries
552
Players Left
1
Who Will Become The Festival Tallinn Main Event Champion?
The Festival Tallinn Main Event has reached its final table where only nine of the original 552 entrants are in contention for the €56,100 top prize in addition to plenty of bragging rights among their peers.
Eirik Kristiansen is the man to catch courtesy of bagging up 4,390,000 chips at the conclusion of Day 3, and the Norwegian will feel like he has one hand on the trophy.
The Festival Tallinn Main Event Final Table Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eirik Kristiansen | 4,390,000 |
| 2 | Kristoffer Winterstein | 1,970,000 |
| 3 | Toivo Ojasoo | 390,000 |
| 4 | Jari Mahonen | 1,955,000 |
| 5 | Sascha Manns | 445,000 |
| 6 | Mikael Viggander | 1,800,000 |
| 7 | Rando Liiber | 3,120,000 |
| 8 | Jero Keitaanranta | 1,225,000 |
| 9 | Gregory Partridge | 1,255,000 |
Standing between Kristiansen and his maiden live poker victory are eight players who have reached this grand stage on merit; any of them would make a worthy champion. Of those returning players, Rando Liiber is the best placed to challenge the chip leader because he has 3,120,000 chips in his stack; nobody else has more than two million betting tokens.
By the end of today, only one man will hold all 16,560,000 chips and have the right to call himself The Festival Tallinn Main Event champion. Who will than man be?
Sascha Manns Eliminated in 9th place (€3,950)
Sascha Manns' time at the final table lasted exactly one hand. Eirik Kristiansen opened to 105,000 in early position and then called when Manns three-bet all-in from the button for 445,000.
Kristiansen: 
Manns: 
The five community cards fell 
and with that, Manns was gone.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
5,000,000 | 610,000 |
|
Busted |
Gregory Partridge Eliminated in 8th Place (€5,100)
Gregory Partridge has been shot down in eighth place, a finish good for €5,100.
With blinds of 30,000/60,000/60,000a, Partridge opened to 130,000 with 
, Kristiansen three-bet to 325,000 with 
, only for Partridge to four-bet all-in for 1,400,000. Kristiansen called.
The 
flop failed to alter the course of the hand, and neither did the turn nor the 
river. Game over for Partridge.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
6,100,000 | 1,100,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Toivo Ojasoo Eliminated in 7th Place (€6,700)
Toivo Ojasoo is no longer vying for The Festival Tallinn Main Event title after Mikael Viggander outed him from the tournament.
A short-stacked Ojasoo opened from the button, and Viggander called in the big blind. Viggander checked on the 
flop, Ojasoo jammed for 450,000, and Viggander called.
Viggander: 
Ojasoo: 
The 
turn gifted Viggander a flush and left Ojasoo drawing dead to the inconsequential 
river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,700,000 | 900,000 |
|
Busted |
Rando Liiber Eliminated in 6th Place (€9,100)
With blinds of 40,000/80,000/80,000a, Rando Liiber raised to 180,000 from under the gun, and Eirik Kristiansen called in the cutoff. Kristoffer Winrerstein squeezed to 680,000 only for Liiber to rip it in for 2,900,000. Kristiansen folded, but Winterstein called.
Winterstein: 
Liiber:
Liiber needed some help from the board and he received it on the 
flop. However, the turn was the 
, which propelled Winterstein back into the lead. He stayed there on the 
river to leave Liiber with a solitary 100,000 chips.
That chip went into the middle with and lost to the 
of Jari Mahonen.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
6,000,000 | 4,030,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Jero Keitaanranta Eliminated in 5th place (€12,100)
Jero Keitaanranta is on his way to the cashier's desk.
Mikael Viggander opened to 225,000 with 
from the cutoff, Keitaanranta three-bet all-in for 815,000 from the button with , and Eirik Kristiansen found 
in the small blind and cold-called. Viggander got out of the way and the dealer fanned the 
board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
7,000,000 | 900,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Mikael Viggander Eliminated in 4th Place (€16,200)
Eirik Kristiansen can do no wrong right now, and he has claimed another scalp, that of Mikael Viggander.
Viggander made it 200,000 to go from the button with 
, Kristiansen called with 
in the small blind, and it was heads-up to the 
flop. Kristiansen led for 210,000, and Viggander called. Kristiansen bet 330,000 on the 
turn, and Viggander called.
The completed the board and Kristiansen greeted it with a shove, effective for around 1,500,000. Viggander paused foe a while before calling and discovering the bad news.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
9,500,000 | 2,500,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Kristoffer WInterstein Eliminated in 3rd Place (€22,000)
Kristoffer Winterstein decided the best way to play with a 22 big blind stack on the button was to jam all in and try win the ever-climbing blinds and antes. The strategy may have worked had Jari Mahonen not woken up in the big blind with the dominating and called.
A queen on the flop of the 
board busted Winterstein in third place and set The Festival Tallinn Main Event into the heads-up stage.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
11,000,000 | 9,045,000 |
|
|
5,300,000 | -4,200,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Jari Mahonen Eliminated in 2nd Place (€36,120)
Jari Mahonen opened three-times the big blind to 360,000 before calling the 845,000 three-bet from Eirik Kristiansen. The dealer spread the flop, and Kristiansen piled his entire stack into the middle. Mahonen called off the 4,500,000 chips he had behind, a hge overbet.
Bizarrely, neither player held a monster hand. Mahonen turned the onto their backs, and Kristiansen revealed the 
! The 
turn was a brick, bu the river gifted Kristiansen a straight and the title of The Festival Tallinn Main Event champion.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
16,560,000 | 11,260,000 |
|
|
Busted |