€550 Main Event Day 1c | 2022 The Festival in Tallinn

Day 1C of the €550 The Festival Tallinn Main Event drew in the biggest crowd yet with exactly 250 players buying in. After the tenth action-packed level concluded, only 88 of those players had chips that required bagging and tagging, and nobody had more chips than Gregory Bregy.

The Swiss star finished Day 1C with 209,100 chips, which not only topped the third flight's overnight chip counts but propelled Bregy into the overall lead. Eight of Bregy's 12 recorded live cashes stem from different countries. He now looks to improve that record to nine cashes in different countries from 13 in-the-money finishes.

The Festival Tallinn Main Event Day 1C Top 10 Chip Counts

Place	Player	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Gregory Bregy	209,100	131
2	Sven-Ake Willix	195,300	122
3	Pal Oygarden	175,300	110
4	Meelis Meliste	171,000	107
5	Jyri Merivirta	170,700	107
6	Kere Keitaanranta	161,100	101
7	Aleksei Gontsar	157,600	99
8	Maria Ling	152,200	95
9	Roland Kivi	150,400	94
10	Terje Sirnes	149,900	94

Everyone who finished in the top ten chip counts has a realistic shot at turning their €550 investment into a much more meaningful amount. Of those in the top ten, six, including Bregy, return to the action on Day 2 with more than 100 big blinds in their arsenal.

Sven-Ake Willix (195,300), Pal Oygarden (175,300), Meelis Meliste (171,000), Jyri Merivirta (171,000), and Kere Keiraanranta (161,100) are those six super-deep players. Of those mentioned players, Merivirta is the best known. The Finnish player has $941,633 in lifetime winnings. Merivirta has a handful of final table appearances in World Series of Poker non-hold'em events, including a sixth-place finish in the 2015 Seven Card Stud Razz Championship that saw him walk away with $47,344 for his $10,000 investment.

Another players through to Day 2 is David Clark who took full advantage of the re-entry format. Clark busted during the first level when his ace-queen of diamonds lost to ace-king of Benjamins Forarjovs, with the chips going in the middle on an ace-nine-five-king board showing two diamonds. A brick of a river later and Clark was gone. He headed to the bar, sunk a beer, bought back in and ended up finishing with 110,200 chips.

Two players who either need to enter Day 1D or buy back in before then end of Day 2's second level are former PKR sponsored pro James Sudworth and Sara "Miss Finland" Chafak who were two high-profile Day 1C casualties.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gregory Bregy	209,100
Sven-Ake Willix	195,300
Pal Oygarden	175,300
Meelis Meliste	171,000
Jyri Merivirta	170,700
Jere Keitaanranta	161,100
Aleksei Gontsar	157,600
Maria Ling	152,200
Roland Kivi	150,400
Terje Sirnes	149,900
Grigorijus Vasilavicius	149,700
Marks Gorskis	145,600
Juhana Leinonen	144,700
Vadim Gercev	142,400
Jani Tuovinen	142,200
Juho Heiska	139,300
Edvin Ström	136,000
Pyry Kekäläinen	134,500
Kristoffer Winterstein	131,600
Lars Eklund	130,600
Magnus Pukk	126,300
Mikael Johansson	123,400
Geir Kjos-Hanssen	118,900
Rune Johansen	118,700
Jukka Ylitalo	118,500

Player

Chips

Progress

Gregory Bregy

209,100

Sven-Ake Willix

195,300

Pal Oygarden

175,300