2025 Kings of Tallinn Day 7: Kestutis Jungevicius Wins €5K High Roller (€90,380)

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Kestutis Jungevicius

The 2025 Kings of Tallinn certainly has not disappointed with records broken left and right as players celebrate the tenth anniversary of this iconic festival at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park with Lithuania’s Kestutis Jungevicius, who has two WSOP Circuit rings to his name, shining above all with his largest career haul of €90,380 after shipping the €5,000 High Roller.

While hundreds of players were busy helping set a new record in the €1 million guaranteed Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event, three players including Jungevicius won trophies. Finland’s Juho Suutari shipped Event #35: €200 NLH Progressive Bounty for €4,650 plus bounties and fellow Finn Elias Suhonen earned the trophy in Event #37: €200 2-7 Triple Draw for €3,317.

Veikka Keto-Tokoi bagged the overnight chip lead in the Main Event after parlaying his 30,000 opening stack into 300,000 in chips to lead the 158 survivors out of the 433 entries to enter the first three opening flights with two more opening flights to go on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the two-day Event #36: €1,100 PLO4/PLO5 Championship shattered previous records with 271 entries generating a €252,030 prize pool. Frank Visser will be reporting Day 2 of the action with 52 players remaining and mixed-game beast Tobias Leknes kicking off the action with the chip lead. The live stream will also kick off at 1:30 p.m. which you can watch on multiple channels including our home page.

Read on to learn more about Day 6 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.

Kestutis Jungevicius Wins Largest Prize Thus Far at the 2025 Kings of Tallinn

The €5,000 Highroller at the ten-year anniversary of Kings of Tallinn brought out the players at Olympic Park Casino with the deepest pockets. Together, they made 58 entries, of which Kestutis Jungevicius from Lithuania was the last man standing after the 15-hour day was all said and done.

Jungevicius won a career-high score of €90,380 and a beautiful Kings of Tallinn trophy to add to his prize cabinet. Jungevicius disposed of his final opponent Matiss Celmins after an otherwise uneventful heads-up culminated in a big flip. Celmins’ consolation prize of €58,250 also meant a new all-time best for him as he nearly doubled his total live earnings.

Other notable names who made the money and received a part of the €264,480 prize pool include online legend Renan Bruschi (4th – €27,400) and Finnish Kings of Tallinn regulars Aleksi Naski (6th – €16,350) and Tommi Lankinen (7th – €12,600).

€5,000 High Roller Results

Place Player Country Prize
1 Kestutis Jungevicius Lithuania €90,380
2 Matiss Celmins Latvia €58,250
3 Joonas Helin Finland €38,450
4 Renan Bruschi Brazil €27,400
5 Zdenek Zizka Czechia €21,050
6 Aleksi Naski Finland €16,350
7 Tommi Lankinen Finland €12,600
€5,000 High Roller Final Table

High Roller Action

The highroller started with plenty of big names in the field, but the likes of Vladas Tamasauskas, Martin Kabrhel, Autumn Edition highroller champion Juha Helppi, and €200 PL Razz winner Blaz Zerjav all met their end early on. At the final three tables, Tarmo Tammel and Harry Lodge were eliminated, as was Igor Pihela Jr., who joined his father at the rail.

With 12 left and just seven spots paid, the tension in the room started to rise. About 90 minutes went by without any eliminations, but once Roope Tarmi busted in 12th it seemed like a curse had been lifted. Within the span of ten minutes, Piotr Sztenkiel, 2024 highroller champion and final Estonian remaining Markkos Ladev, and Irish poker legend Michael Dwyer busted, leaving the field on the stone bubble.

The tournament was still quite deep, so an hour of big pots went by without any reaching all-in and call status. Eventually, Ludvig Sterner pushed in 13 big blinds with pocket nines, only to book a sour exit against the pocket eights of Bruschi, bursting the bubble and setting the final table of seven.

Ludvig Sterner

Lankinen was first to go from the final table after doubling up Bruschi with jacks against ace-king and being left critically short. Next in line was Naski, who got his queens in preflop for a chiplead pot but was forced to look on as Jungevicius’ jacks outflopped him.

Zdenek Zizka started the final table as the overwhelming chipleader after abusing the bubble dynamics, but his hyper-aggressive style would come back to bite him. Zizka was involved in many pots but started losing most of them, eventually being left with six big blinds. Those went in preflop against Joonas Helin, who flopped better and sent Zizka to the rail in fifth.

Zdenek Zizka

Bruschi’s stack had dwindled as well, being left with about two big blinds at one point during four-handed play. After a triple-up and hitting a four-outer to double right after, a comeback seemed to be in the cards for the Brazilian grinder. However, he was no match for the wrath of Jungevicius, who eliminated Bruschi in a blind-on-blind preflop clash.

Mere minutes later, Helin pushed his stack in the middle against Jungevicius as well. His fives were outclassed by the nines of Jungevicius, however, sending the final Finnish player out in third place.

Jungevicius started the heads-up with a chiplead of about three to one. After some small pots went back and forth, Celmins got in his last 15 big blinds preflop with king-queen against the pocket fives of Jungevicius. In style, Jungevicius made a set to secure his victory in the highroller, overcoming a field with the best of the best that the Nordic and Baltic poker scene has to offer and being rewarded with his first-ever Kings of Tallinn trophy.

Matiss Celmins
  • The section was written by Frank Visser, who live reported the event at poker.pro.

Event #35: €200 NLH Progressive Bounty Results

Place Player Country Prize
1 Juho Suutari Finland €4,650
2 Martin Amato Sweden €4,650
3 Maris Vizla Latvia €3,020
4 Joel Holmberg Finland €2,050
5 Marius Hakonsen Norway €1,420
6 Arto Lehtonen Finland €1,090
7 Andre Mägi Estonia €910
8 Justinas Adomauskas Lithuania €770
9 Eirik Gravdal Norway €670
10 Niclas Fagerberg Sweden €580
11 Mantas Liachauskas Lithuania €580
12 Angelica Andersson Sweden €500
13 Mindaugas Kuliesius Lithuania €500
14 Lars Bergkvist Finland €430
15 Martin Moistus Estonia €430
16 Jenny Westerlund Sweden €380
17 Serhii Leonov Ukraine €380
18 Viktors Caikins Latvia €330
19 Henar Ruudna Estonia €330
20 Henning Andre Sweden €330
21 Kent Wulff Sweden €290
22 Alexander Proca Sweden €290
23 Detlef Von Collrepp Germany €290
24 Joakim Fjar Norway €250
25 Tobias Napel Norway €250
26 Mart Tammoja Estonia €250
27 Oleksandr Tarashevskyi Ukraine €250
28 Kaidar Viikman Estonia €230
29 Thomas Danielmeier Germany €230
30 Mindaugas Murauskas Lithuania €230
31 Bjorn Odden Norway €230
32 Morten Norland Norway €210
33 Roger Odden Norway €210
34 Olaf Larssen Norway €210
35 Toni Vuolle Finland €210
36 Mikolaj Domanski Poland €210
37 Tapio Aaltonen Finland €210
38 Eedi Kirves Estonia €210
39 Conor Stapleton Ireland €210
40 Thomas Leyrer Germany €190
41 Evert Andersson Sweden €190
42 Miska Vihervuori Finland €190
43 Frederico Alves Dos Santos Brazil €190
44 Linda Tano Sweden €190
45 Samuli Vesioja Finland €190
46 Monica Thingbo Norway €190
47 Samuel Saariaho Finland €190

Event #37: €200 2-7 Triple Draw Results

Place Player Country Prize
1 Elias Suhonen Finland €3,317
2 Nadja Sutter Switzerland €2,210
3 Miko Miettinen Finland €1,550
4 Mette-Marica Puromäki Finland €1,130
5 Peter La Terra Sweden €830
6 Ville Ruoho Finland €680
7 Barrie Dear United Kingdom €550
8 Mark Adams United Kingdom €440
9 Kare Hallamaa Finland €360

2025 Kings of Tallinn Schedule Day 8 (Thursday, Feb. 27)

The action heats up for the €1 million guaranteed Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event on Wednesday with two more of the five opening flights set to kick off at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. respectively.

Meanwhile, Wednesday boasts two other prestigious events in the €5,000 NLH High Roller at 12 p.m. and the opening day of the two-day €1,100 PLO4/PLO5 Championship at 7 p.m.

Those playing lower stakes will enjoy the €200 NLH Progressive Bounty at 3 p.m. and the €200 PLO 2-7 Triple Draw at 8 p.m. The day also starts and ends with satellites, with a €150 satellite to the €1,100 PLO4/PLO5 Championship starting at 12 p.m. and the €150 Mega Satellite to the €1,100 Main Event beginning at 10 p.m. Both satellites are guaranteeing at least 10 seats.

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

Time Event
12:00 Event #25: €1,100 NLH Kings of Tallinn Main Event Flight 1d
12:00 Event #39: €150 Satellite to the €1,100 Main Event (5 Seats GTD)
13:00 Event #36: €1,100 PLO4/PLO5 Championship Day 2
14:00 Event #40: €200 NLH
17:00 Event #41: €350 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 Progressive Bounty
19:00 Event #25: €1,100 NLH Kings of Tallinn Main Event Flight 1e
20:00 Event #42: €200 PL Sökö Low, 5 Card Stud Low
21:00 Event #43: €555 NLH
23:00 Event #44: €150 Turbo

*Photos courtesy of Elena Kask

Poker journalist Jason Glatzer boasts more than a decade in experience in poker media and operations. He is well-known in Europe for providing quality reporting, editorial, and commentating at a wide variety of events from around the world including at all major events at our flagship venue Olympic Park Casino

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