button in SafariRecord-Breaking WSOPC Tallinn Main Moving Into Business End as 147 Return for Day 2
The 2026 WSOP Circuit Tallinn €1,500 Main Event has broken all records. Over the course of five starting flights, a massive field of 977 entries was noted, generating a prize pool of €1,253,002 and smashing the previous record of 888 entries into bits. After every flight had concluded 147 players had punched their ticket to Day 2, which will kick off at the Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel & Olympic Park Casino today at noon local time.
WSOPC ring winner Rasmus Lundström leads the pack as he turned his 50,000 starting stack into a gargantuan stack of 1,304,000 on Day 1d. Day 1b chipleader Baptiste Caim follows with 1,098,000 in chips, being the only other player to amass a seven-figure stack. Meanwhile, Iiro Elomaa topped the last-minute flight of Day 1e with 926,000, netting him a fifth place on the overall leaderboard.
Start of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rasmus Lundström | Finland | 1,304,000 |
| 2 | Baptiste Caim | France | 1,098,000 |
| 3 | Robin Vanloot | France | 961,000 |
| 4 | Mathias Siljander | Finland | 948,000 |
| 5 | Iiro Elomaa | Finland | 926,000 |
| 6 | Roy van der Reijnst | Netherlands | 912,000 |
| 7 | Jussi Julkunen | Finland | 796,000 |
| 8 | Tomi Hietala | Finland | 742,000 |
| 9 | Deividas Butnoras | Lithuania | 703,000 |
| 10 | Sami Saamanen | Finland | 693,000 |
Recently crowned €5k High Roller champion Luka Sorainen will return today with 539,000, while Scottish regular David Docherty will sit back down with 480,000. Aliaksandr Shylko will be unbagging 420,000, slightly more than 2023 WSOPC Tallinn champion Ignacio Garrido, who has 400,000 to his name. Sander Ostlyngen is the only bracelet winner left in the field, returning with 235,000 in his bid to add a ring to his collection of WSOP jewelry.
Day 2 of the WSOPC Tallinn Main Event is scheduled to play down to 24 players, who will then bag their chips for Day 3. The levels on Day 2 will increase from 40 minutes to 60 minutes, with a break planned after every two levels. At the time of writing, it was not yet made known at what blind level the tournament would restart.
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