The 2025 Kings of Tallinn at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park has been a blast. OlyBet welcomes old faces and new players with a fantastic array of 64 events and many value-added promotions as players gear up for the start of the €1 million guaranteed 2025 Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event.

Monday was special, with many local players enjoying Estonia’s Independence Day. However, Finland played the spoiler, denying Estonia any trophies after sweeping the board with three trophies from three events.

Elias Jalovaara won the largest prize of the day after defeating fellow Finna Joona Koivisto heads-up to earn the €10,840 top prize in Event #22: €200 NLH Deepstack Estonian Independence Day Special. The 2019 Tallinn Summer Showdown champion Sebastian Wahl added another trophy to his collection along with a payout slip for €4,275 after defeating Germany’s Sascha Manns heads-up in Event #23: €200 NLH/PLO/PLO5, and Niko Heikkinen was victorious against Estonia’s Peep Laar heads-up to win Event #20: €350 8-Game for €8,300.

Denmark’s Ahmet Canatan leads the final 24 players in the three-day €555 Kings of Tallinn Championship, with Ukraine’s Yurii Zabrodotskyi, and Norway’s Morten Norland just a few chips behind. Two-time WSOP bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel resides in seventh place, with all returning players already locking up €2,150 with a €66,050 top prize on the line.

You can follow along with the action in the €555 Kings of Tallinn Championship at poker.pro, with live reporting continuing until a winner is crowned. The poker.pro team will also be live reporting the Royal Showdown Invitational, which will boast eight previous Kings and Queens of Tallinn winners battling for more than €10,000 in added prizes. The Royal Showdown will also mark the start of the live stream before the cameras are turned to witness the final stages of the €555 Kings of Tallinn Championship.

In other news, Theodoros Ampelikiotis leads the final 29 players in the two-day Event #21: €555 Mystery Bounty with 27 players finishing in the money and big mystery bounty envelopes ready to be awarded.

Read on to learn more about Day 5 of the 2025 Kings of Tallinn at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park, or click on the links below to read about the event.

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Elias Jalovaara Victorious in €200 NLH Estonian Independence Day Special

Many players were witnessed wearing the blue, black, and white of Estonia’s flag on Monday to celebrate their country’s special day in style in the €200 Estonian Independence Day Special. However, the Estonian poker community did not perform well in this event, with Taavi Välisson’s 16th-place finish for €690 topping the charts for the home country.

Instead, it was all about the white and blue flag of Finland, with the country boasting the top three spots in the event. The event attracted a banner field of 338 entries, which formed a €53,438 prize pool.

Elias Jalovaara and Joona Koivisto were heads-up after Jukka Moisio exited in third place for €5,180. Jalovaara defeated his opponent and earned the only five-figure prize of the day € 10,840. This left Koivisto without a trophy but instead with a handsome runner-up prize of €7,310 for a healthy return on his €200 buy-in.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Elias Jalovaara	Finland	€10,840
2	Joona Koivisto	Finland	€7,310
3	Jukka Moisio	Finland	€5,180
4	Olaf Larssen	Norway	€3,670
5	Antonios Onoufriou	Cyprus	€2,610
6	Aleksi Roine	Finland	€1,950
7	Aleksi Naski	Finland	€1,500
8	Steinn Thanh Du Karlsson	Iceland	€1,250
9	Andre Haakestad	Norway	€1,080
10	Kent Wulff	Sweden	€960
11	Sergiu-Valentin Mihai-Popescu	Romania	€960
12	Joel Haapio	Finland	€850
13	Raivo Grislis	Latvia	€850
14	Nils Doverklint	Sweden	€770
15	Indre Martoviciute-Kasten	Lithuania	€770
16	Taavi Välisson	Estonia	€690
17	Silver Hõmmik	Estonia	€690
18	Aleksei Gontsar	Estonia	€620
19	Andrei Mjagkov	Estonia	€620
20	Sten Toomsalu	Estonia	€620
21	Borge Dypvik	Norway	€560
22	Thomas Kennedy	United Kingdom	€560
23	Mikael Hedberg	Sweden	€560
24	Taaniel Jakobson	Estonia	€500
25	Madis Ormisson	Estonia	€500
26	Audrius Navickas	Lithuania	€500
27	Kalju Raap	Estonia	€500
28	Dan Tolppanen	Finland	€460
29	Semir Natzi	Greece	€460
30	Agneta Nordenstam	Sweden	€460
31	Juuso Kauppi	Finland	€460
32	Ralf Hamburg	Estonia	€420
33	Tõnu Silves	Estonia	€420
34	Mindaugas Pakalniskis	Lithuania	€420
35	Tapio Aaltonen	Finland	€420
36	Arnoldas Kolesnikovas	Lithuania	€420
37	Tony Nyberg	Finland	€420
38	Annemar Rimmel	Estonia	€420
39	Jukka Juvonen	Finland	€420
40	Petri Ranta	Finland	€384
41	Erki Hunt	Estonia	€384

Niko Heikkinen Wins €350 8-Game

The €350 8-Game was a true test of poker skills, with the games rotating between the five limit games of HORSE, including hold’em, Omaha h/l, Stud, Razz, Stud h/l, along with limit deuce-to-seven triple draw, no-limit hold’em, and pot-limit Omaha.

The event attracted just shy of a century with 98 entries creating a €28,253 prize pool. This event was the one realistic chance that Estonia had a chance to get on the board on its Independence Day with a trophy with Peep Laar heads-up against Finland’s Niko Heikkinen.

Heikkinen denied Laar the honor of winning the trophy on this special day and earned the €8,300 top prize, while Laar should have still gone home happy with his runner-up prize of €5,390.

Place	Player	Country	Flag
1	Niko Heikkinen	Finland	€8,300
2	Peep Laar	Estonia	€5,390
3	Daniel Tordjman	France	€3,730
4	Raimonds Svans	Latvia	€2,710
5	Deniss Lebedevs	Latvia	€2,000
6	Espen Sandvik	Norway	€1,550
7	Timo Lämsä	Finland	€1,213
8	Lee Horton	United Kingdom	€940
9	Hannu Penttinen	Finland	€940
10	Pasi Laihinen	Finland	€740
11	Alexander Freund	Austria	€740

2019 Tallinn Summer Showdown Winner Sebastian Wahl Wins Another Trophy

Sebastian Wahl won the OlyBet Tallinn Summer Showdown in 2019, before it was rebranded as part of the Kings of Tallinn family of festivals. While he wasn’t invited to join the Kings and Queens in the Royal Showdown Invitational, he instead took matters into his own hands and won a trophy along with the €4,275 top prize in the €200 NLH/PLO4/PLO5.

Four other players, each from different countries, collected four-figure hauls including Germany’s Sascha Manns (second – €2,780), Slovakia’s Tomas Szabo (third – €1,920), Finland’s Olli-Pekka Huuskonen (fourth – €1,390), and Poland’s Tomasz Gluszko (fifth – €1,030).

2025 Kings of Tallinn Schedule Day 6 (Tuesday, Feb. 25)

Tuesday will be an extremely busy day at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park as the Kings of Tallinn is set to award seven trophies. Our poker.pro team will be busy live reporting Day 2 of the €555 NLH Kings of Tallinn Championship and The Royal Showdown Invitational.

Meanwhile, today is the start of the €1 million guaranteed Main Event with Day 1a kicking off at 1 p.m. The live reporting of this event will begin on Day 2, however, we will provide daily updates in our recaps until we reach that stage of the event.

In addition to these three events, the final 29 players will battle in the €555 NLH DeepStack Mystery Bounty with envelopes containing massive prizes to be opened starting at Noon. The second OFC event kicks off at the same time with a €350 buy-in, while there is still more to come with three more tournaments and two more satellites including the €200 NLH Royal Challenge at 7 p.m., where players can earn a €200 bounty for eliminating any former Kings of Tallinn or Queens of Tallinn Main Event champion.

Check out Tuesday’s schedule below or head to the OlyBetEvents.com landing page to see the full schedule and more.