2025 Kings of Tallinn Day 10: Kaspars Butans Leads Main Event Final Table

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Kaspars Butans

The atmosphere was electric on the penultimate day of the 10th anniversary of the Kings of Tallinn at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park as two multi-day final tables played down to a winner, the record-breaking 2025 Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event playing down to a final table, and many women in attendance in hopes to become the latest Queens champion at the Kings of Tallinn.

The stage is set for a tremendous finale of the 2025 Kings of Tallinn Main Event. The festival set a new gold standard with 1,181 runners creating a €1,098,330 prize pool with the field down to just nine final table hopefuls in the hunt for the glory, the trophy, and the €182,000 top prize.

Online Latvian grinder Kaspars Butans, who is no stranger to the Kings of Tallinn, will head into tomorrow’s Main Event final table in an envious position with the chip lead with an 80 big blind stack of 6.4 million. While Butans is in the pole position there are many other storylines in what will be a true celebration of the 10th anniversary of this prestigious event.

Chris Da Silva
Chris Da Silva

Butan’s closest competitor, Denmark’s Ahmet Canatan, already had a Kings of Tallinn he will always remember after notching his biggest cash to date in the €555 Championship for €66,050, while Estonia’s Priit Parmasto is looking to make history in becoming the first two-time champion at the Kings of Tallinn Main Event. The local country also has another chance with the formidable poker pro Igor Pihela Jr. in the mix as is friend of poker.pro Chris Da Silva from the United Kingdom.

The live stream will return for the final table of the Main Event with poker.pro CEO Jason Glatzer leading the commentating with guests throughout the day including Kings of Tallinn host Andreas “Wiseguy” Hoglund and some of the former Kings of Tallinn champions. The live reporting will also continue to keep you updated on the biggest hands, bad beats, and more at poker.pro.

While the Main Event took center stage, the excitement was more evident as the €150 NLH Queens began to kick off with 99 enthusiastic entries creating a €12,227 prize pool. Norway’s Monica Thingbo walked away as a Queen with a trophy after defeating Finland’s Riina Jääskeläinen to earn the €3,256 top prize. The 2025 Queens of Tallinn was also announced on Saturday to take place from Aug. 21-24 with more information to come soon.

Monica Thingbo wins €150 Queens at 2025 Kings of Tallinn
Monica Thingbo wins €150 Queens at 2025 Kings of Tallinn

The 2019 WSOP Europe €2,500 gold bracelet champion Espen Sandvik won his third-ever side event at a Kings of Tallinn Festival at winning the two-day €555 Sviten Championship for €12,165. The victory was bitter sweet as at least for now he can declare himself the Sviten champion of the world as this was the largest open Sviten Event as far as this author knows in poker history while defeating an experienced international field.

In other news, Greece’s Panagiotis Mavritsakis shipped the title in the two-day €1,100 NLH DeepStack Progressive Bounty for €16,100 and a massive bounty haul at the end. Scott “Pokerbrahs” Kenyon held the overnight chip lead in this event before settling for fourth place for €3,970 and nearly had a trophy after finding himself heads-up in a one-day €200 PLO Hi-Lo. However, a trophy wasn’t in the cards for the poker streamer and mixed game specialist with Estonia’s Marek Selgeveer playing as spoiler and keeping the trophy home as well as the €5,350 top prize.

Another Estonian, in Mauri Daubek leads the final 14 players in the two-day €3,000 NLH with poker.pro reporting the final day in tandem with the Main Event.

A big name in poker in Vivien Saliba tops the leaderboard heading into the second and final day of the €750 PLO4/PLO5 Mystery Bounty with 24 players remaining out of a field of 150 entries. There will be some excitement today as mystery bounties will be pulled.

Read on to learn more about Day 10 of the 2025 Kings of Tallinn at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park, or click on the links below to learn more about the event.

Kaspar Butans Captains Final Table at 2025 Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event

Kaspars Butans
Kaspars Butans

An eventful day at Olympic Park Casino brought the 113 players who returned for Day 3 of the €1,100 Kings of Tallinn Main Event down to the final table of nine. After 12 hours of play, Kaspars Butans bagged the chip lead as the lion’s share of the €1,098,330 prize pool will be divided tomorrow.

Not much is publicly known about Butans, although his rail could be overheard today stating that Butans “plays online 24/7” and “wins everything”. Time will tell if “everything” includes the tenth-anniversary Kings of Tallin Main Event, which would net Butans the top prize of €182,000.

Butans ended Day 3 with 6,400,000 in chips, good for 80 big blinds when the final table commences tomorrow. Ahmet Canatan sits in second place with 5,230,000 and is looking for his second trophy this week after shipping the €555 Championship for a career-best €66,050. If Canatan finishes third or higher in the Main Event, he will once again claim a new high score.

Estonia still has two horses in the race with Igor Pihela Jr. (4,040,000) and Priit Parmasto (2,840,000). Pihela Jr. is known for traveling the European circuit with his father and would need to finish sixth for a new all-time best score. Meanwhile, Parmasto can become the first-ever two-time Kings of Tallinn champion, having shipped the Main Event in 2023 for €97,400.

Priit Parmasto

Meanwhile, English grinder and friend of poker.pro Chris Da Silva will start the final table as the shortest stack as he is looking to add to his seven figures in lifetime earnings, although with 1,500,000 in chips, he will still have plenty of maneuverability.

2025 Kings of Tallinn Main Event Final Table Seat Draw and Chip Counts

Seat Player Country Chip Count Big Blinds
1 Chris Da Silva United Kingdom 1,500,000 19
2 Eldars Sadih-Zade Latvia 3,400,000 43
3 Kaspars Butans Latvia 6,400,000 80
4 Igor Pihela Jr. Estonia 4,040,000 51
5 Mounir Tajiou Sweden 4,890,000 61
6 Priit Parmasto Estonia 2,840,000 36
7 Isak Bergstrom Sweden 4,330,000 54
8 Pasi Laihinen Finland 2,735,000 34
9 Ahmet Canatan Denmark 5,230,000 65

2025 Kings of Tallinn Main Event Day 3 Action

The day started with 113 of the record-breaking 1,181 entries returning with hopes of making the final table. However, only nine spots were available, thus, many big names had to leave throughout the day.

Elias Suhonen (110th – €2,450) was one of the first eliminations of the day. Ryan Mandara squeaked in the top 100 but finished in 93rd for €2,800. Tommi Lankinen received the same amount for his 81st place, while former champions Juha Helppi (66th) and Mathias Siljander (58th) got a pay jump to €3,200.

Kai Lehto would soon make Parmasto the only Main Event champion left standing as he fell in 41st for €3,650. Eventually, Sebastian Wahl (29th – €5,100) and Finnish poker legend Ilari Sahamies (26th – €5,600) fell just a few spots away from making the three-table redraw.

Ilari Sahamies

Oleh Pritsak was Ukraine’s final hope but was eliminated in 24th place for €5,600, while Italy and Poland also lost their last representatives at the final three tables in Mirco De Martini (22nd – €6,500) and Piotr Sztenkiel (18th – €7,500). Start-of-day chipleader Mikael Haapaniemi then finished in 17th for €8,515 to set up the final two tables.

Irishman Michael Dwyer (16th – €8,515) was the first to depart from the final two tables, which is also where Iceland’s Steinn Karlsson (13th – €11,400) and France’s Thomas De Leiris (11th – €13,500) met their end. The clock had just struck midnight when Robertas Smolskis (10th – €13,500) lost his all-in flip against Tajiou, eliminating the final Lithuanian from the tournament and declaring Smolskis the official final table bubble.

Michael Dwyer

The final nine will return at Noon local time tomorrow to battle for the title. They have guaranteed themselves a payday of at least €16,800, which is already some players’ best-ever performance. However, alluring six-figure prizes are only reserved for the final two players.

The final table will start with almost the entirety of Level 20: 40,000/80,000 (80,000) still to play. The levels will be 60 minutes long throughout the final table, with a break scheduled after every two.

*Main Event recap by live reporter Frank Visser.

2025 Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event Final Table Payouts

Place Prize
1 €182,000
2 €115,000
3 €80,000
4 €61,000
5 €47,000
6 €36,500
7 €28,000
8 €21,800
9 €16,800

Event #47: €555 Sviten Championship Results

Place Player Country Prize
1 Espen Sandvik Norway €12,165
2 Riku Koivurinne Finland €7,900
3 Jari Virta Sweden €5,460
4 Scott Kenyon United Kingdom €3,970
5 Carlo Braccini Italy €2,930
6 Jari Mähönen Finland €2,270
7 Alexander Freund Austria €1,770
8 Morten Norland Norway €1,380
9 Hans Holst Sweden €1,380
10 Remigijus Politika Lithuania €1,080
11 Krzysztof Budka Poland €1,080

Event #49: €1100 NLH Deepstack Progressive Bounty Results

Place Player Country Prize
1 Panagiotis Mavritsakis Greece €16,100
2 Andrei Spataru Romania €16,100
3 David Hu Netherlands €11,030
4 Ritvars Cekalins Latvia €7,930
5 Miika Töyräs Finland €6,200
6 Ernestas Stalemekas Lithuania €4,800
7 Sergejs Pislegins Latvia €3,650
8 Johan Karlsson Sweden €2,900
9 Joel Holmberg Finland €2,400
10 Rokas Barzdzius Lithuania €2,000
11 Alf Önnestam Sweden €1,875
12 Virgo Laansoo Estonia €1,875
13 Lukas Benkovic Slovakia €1,750
14 Max Rotko Finland €1,550
15 Iman Ghashayar Netherlands €1,550
16 Mantas Bagocius Lithuania €1,450
17 Kai Välimäki Finland €1,450
18 Kriss Riekstins Latvia €1,300
19 Florian Ribouchon France €1,300
20 Tobias Leknes Norway €1,300

Event #53: €200 PL Omaha Hi-Lo Results

Place Player Country Prize
1 Marek Selgeveer Estonia €5,350
2 Scott Kenyon United Kingdom €3,480
3 Gert Laanemets Estonia €2,490
4 Robert Kaggerud Norway €1,860
5 Glen Verup Denmark €1,410
6 Kristjan Abakanov Estonia €1,130
7 Tomi Hietala Finland €930
8 Michel Leibgorin France €760
9 Seppo Parkkinen Finland €612
10 Jan Granlund Finland €520
11 Raimonds Svans Latvia €520
12 Mette-Marica Puromäki Finland €450
13 Risto Pönniö Finland €450
14 Henning Nielsen Denmark €400
15 Marius Hakonsen Norway €400
16 Nils Kollandsrud Norway €370
17 Espen Sandvik Norway €370

Event #54: €150 NLH Queens Results

Place Player Country Prize
1 Monica Thingbo Norway €3,256
2 Riina Jääskeläinen Finland €2,250
3 Indre Martoviciute-Kasten Lithuania €1,540
4 Lina Svilainyte Lithuania €1,130
5 Pernille Jordan Denmark €860
6 Christel Haller Estonia €700
7 Angelica Andersson Sweden €560
8 Vita Veidemane Latvia €440
9 Mari-Liis Joa Estonia €350
10 Olena Nadtoka Ukraine €300
11 Saara Ylianttila Finland €300
12 Maili Tannbaum Estonia €270
13 Katariina Ingerma Estonia €270

2025 Kings of Tallinn Schedule Day 11 (Sunday, March 2)

Sunday kicks off with both the final table of the Kings of Tallinn Main Event and of the final day of the €3,000 NLH at Noon on Sunday. The €750 PLO Mystery Bounty players will return for action one hour later at 1 p.m.

Meanwhile, players will share their heartfelt goodbyes throughout the day but will have two more chances at a last-second trophy in the €150 PLO Progressive Bounty Turbo at 2 p.m. and the €200 Mini Main Event at 3 p.m.

The final event will involve no cards at all and instead will be a rocking players’ party at the OlyBet Bar and Grill featuring the House Band and plenty of fun.

Check out Sunday’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 Kings of Tallinn Main Event Final Table
12:00 Event #55: €3,000 NLH Final Day
13:00 Event #59: €750 PLO4/PLO5 Mystery Bounty Final Day
14:00 Event #62: €150 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 Progressive Bounty Turbo
15:00 Event #63: €200 Mini Main Event
21:00 Event #64: Kings of Tallinn 10 Year Celebration Players’ Party

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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