Wednesday roared on at the 2026 OlyBet Showdown Tallinn with four new champions crowned at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park. In addition, the €1,100 Main Event kicked off on Wednesday and will continue until a winner is crowned on Saturday evening, with two more opening flights on Thursday.

Finland’s Pasi Sormunen was the star of the day after navigating through a field of 127 entries to win the €15,575 top prize, the largest single tournament prize thus far this festival. Poland’s Krzysztof Budka earned the €1,030 top prize and bounties, the trophy, and bragging rights after winning the €200 PLO5 Deepstack Progressive Bounty. Vietnam’s Thuy Anh Dao came back with a short-stack to win the €200 NLH for €2,755.

Meanwhile, it was de ja vu for the poker.pro team. On Tuesday, Glenn Brown dazzled the crowd with an amazing comeback to win the €200 PLO4/PLO5. Even more unexpected on Wednesday was that Terje “Teddy” Bremseth won the title in the €200 PL Sviten / PLO5 Round of Each for €3,156 after defeating fellow Norwegian and Epicbet founder Jan Svendsen heads-up. This event provided tons of entertainment, with Bremseth believing he was eliminated with four players left, only to come back with less than a small blind in his stack.

Speaking of Epicbet, they have combined forces with The Festival Series and OlyBet Poker to boast a €200 Myster Bounty tournament on Saturday, along with a fun €65 Sportsbook Tournament, which is already open for players to register.

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Pasi Sormunen Wins €555 NLH Championship

The two-day €555 NLH Championship attracted 127 runners between its sole opening day on Tuesday to create a €60,325 prize pool. The final 15 players returned on Wednesday already in the money for at least a €1,100 min-cash.

It was an international affair, as can be evidenced from the top seven players in this event, all hailing from different countries. The podium was secure after the formidable British poker beast and 2018 Irish Poker Open Main Event champion Ryan Mandara hit the rail in fourth place for €5,350. Italy’s Mario Colavita was the next to go in third place for €7,310, setting the stage for another Finland vs. Estonia battle at Olympic Park Casino.

Estonia won the first three multi-day events, but a sweep of the board this festival won’t be possible, as Finland’s Pasi Sormunen won the trophy and the €15,575 top prize, spoiling the hopes of the home crown. Meanwhile, Estonia’s Siim Kabel will have plenty of reasons to still be happy, despite missing out on the trophy, after collecting his €10,530 runner-up prize.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Pasi Sormunen	Finland	€15,575
2	Siim Kabel	Estonia	€10,530
3	Mario Colavita	Italy	€7,310
4	Ryan Mandara	United Kingdom	€5,350
5	Arkadiusz Liszewski	Poland	€4,040
6	Martin Zobel	Germany	€3,230
7	Uldis Lejnieks	Latvia	€2,650
8	Dmitri Dudakov	Estonia	€2,200
9	Markus Hirttiö	Finland	€1,800
10	Marijus Dirgela	Lithuania	€1,460
11	Ilja Sluckers	Latvia	€1,460
12	Patrik Falk	Sweden	€1,260
13	Tomas Bulksas	Lithuania	€1,260
14	Alexey Kolbaskin	Estonia	€1,100
15	Aleksandr Geller	Estonia	€1,100

Krzysztof Budka Wins €200 PLO5 Deepstack Progressive Bounty

The €200 PLO5 Deepstack Progressive Bounty attracted 47 entries, creating €7,591 in prizes, including €3,760 in bounties. Estonian and Finnish players were all eliminated before the heads-up battle between Poland’s Krzysztof Budka and Latvia’s Uldis Lejnieks. Both players earned the €1,030 top prize from the prize pool before Budka eliminated Lejnieks to claim the big bounty and the trophy.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Krzysztof Budka	Poland	€1,030
2	Uldis Lejnieks	Latvia	€1,030
3	Taavi Välisson	Estonia	€711
4	Kimmo Kurko	Finland	€500
5	Vili Turunen	Finland	€340
6	Marcis Zeltmatis	Latvia	€220

Thuy Anh Dao Wins €200 NLH

The turbo-charged €200 NLH attracted 50 entries, creating €8,075 in prizes. Vietnam’s Thuy Anh Dao entered the final table in jeopardy of bubbling as the short stack.

Not only did she cash, but came from behind to win the event for €2,755 after defeating Sweden’s Lars-Ove Jonsson heads-up en route to the title.

While both Estonians and Finns were shut out of the payout table, players representing five different countries cashed.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Thuy Anh Dao	Vietnam	€2,755
2	Lars-Ove Jonsson	Sweden	€1,760
3	Mathies Boesen	Denmark	€1,170
4	Gine Broderud	Norway	€840
5	Ernestas Stalemekas	Lithuania	€630
6	Jason Glatzer	Lithuania	€510
7	Andre Haakestad	Norway	€410

Teddy Wins Trophy in €200 PL Sviten / PLO5

The €200 PL Sviten / PLO5 Round of Each attracted 57 entries for a €9,206 prize pool. With four players left, in the very friendly affair, Finland’s Andreas Backlund, who was going for back-to-back trophies after shipping the €350 NLH Progressive Bounty on Tuesday, thought he had eliminated Terje Bremseth, also affectionately known as Teddy, in a hand of Sviten Special, where he won both ends of the pot.

Bremseth also walked away from the table only to learn he still had less than a big blind to run up. Backlund, himself, was in a similar spot earlier at the final table, witnessing Bremseth come back before hitting the rail himself in fourth place for €1,360.

Estonia’s Marten Rimmel then ended his deep run in third place for €1,360, leaving two Norwegian poker enthusiasts and entrepreneurs heads-up for the title. Both players appeared to be hungrier for the trophy rather than the prize pool, and it was Bremseth who earned bragging rights after eliminating Svendsen in second place for €2,030, with Bremseth getting a monkey off his back by earning his first OlyBet trophy after suffering through several close calls in the past and the €3,156 top prize.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Terje Bremseth	Norway	€3,156
2	Jan Svendsen	Norway	€2,030
3	Marten Rimmel	Estonia	€1,360
4	Andreas Backlund	Finland	€970
5	Glenn Brown	United Kingdom	€720
6	Vidar Assersen	Norway	€550
7	Meelis Ahman	Estonia	€420

2026 OlyBet Showdown Tallinn Schedule (Thursday, April 16)

Thursday boasts the final two flights of the €1,100 Main Event at Noon and 7 p.m., with a Freebuy guaranteeing three seats also beginning at Noon.

Three trophy one-day events are featured on Thursday, including the €350 PLO4/PLO5 at 2:30, the €555 NLH/PLO4/PLO5 Progressive Bounty at 7:30 p.m., and the €200 NLH Turbo at 10 p.m.

Check out today’s schedule below and head to OlyBetEvents.com to check out the full schedule, a player’s guide, and more.

• Lead image courtesy of Elena Kask / OlyBet Poker
• Article originally produced at poker.pro.