2025 Kings of Tallinn Day 4: Poker Journalist Among Five Trophy Winners on Sunday

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The action was hopping on the fourth day of the 2025 Kings of Tallinn as the celebration continues of the iconic festival’s 10th anniversary with a robust schedule of 64 events, including the €1 million guaranteed Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event, which begins its action on Tuesday.

Five trophy winners were crowned, including one by this author, who had most of the day free to celebrate poker.pro earned a Global Poker Award on a serious topic of house bots written by Jonathan Raab, winning Event #15: €200 Pot-Limit Stud / Pot-Limit Stud Hi-Lo for €3,010.

Finland’s Antti Suominen won the biggest prize of the day, €7,510, after winning Event #13: €350 HORSE. Other winners on Sunday included Norway’s Cato Vonheim winning Event #14: €200 NLH DeepStack for €6,895, Finland’s Henri Schalin earning the title in Event #16: €200 NLH Progressive Bounty for €3,070 plus bounties, and fellow Finn Olli-Pekka Huuskonen winning Event #17: €350 Dealers Choice Hi Only for €6,640.

In other news, the €555 NLH Kings of Tallinn Championship completed its four opening flights with already 516 entries in the mix led by Karolis Kutkauskas. Late registration will remain open for the first four hours of the day. This also marks the start of our live reporting of Kings of Tallinn’s numbered events.

Read on to learn more about Day 4 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.

Antti Suominen Wins First Mixed Game Event on Sunday

Three of the five trophies awarded on Sunday were for mixed-game events with the schedule beginning with the €350 HORSE. The prize pool grew to €25,659 with 89 entries battling it out as games rotated in limit format between hold’em (H), Omaha h/l (O), Razz (R), Stud (S), and Stud Hi-Lo (E).

Antti Suominen was the star of the day after he defeated Tomasz Gluszko heads-up to win the €7,510 title with 11 players earning at least a €700 min-cash from the prize pool.

Place Player Country Prize
1 Antti Suominen Finland €7,510
2 Tomasz Gluszko Poland €4,840
3 Aku Laajus Finland €3,390
4 Jukka Juvonen Finland €2,460
5 Alexander Freund Austria €1,820
6 Pasi Laihinen Finland €1,419
7 Henri Ojala Finland €1,100
8 Risto Pönniö Finland €860
9 Scott Kenyon United Kingdom €860
10 Juho Suutari Finland €700
11 Lena Björn Sweden €700

Cato Vonheim Wins DeepStack

Event #14: €200 NLH DeepStack attracted a banner field of 224 entries creating a €35,414 prize pool. The top 27 players earned more than double the €200 buy-in, with the prizes starting with a €411 min-cash.

Norway’s Cato Vonheim earned the title and the €6,895 top prize after agreeing to a deal with Finland’s Eemeli Särkiniemi, who earned €5,695 for his efforts.

Place Player Country Prie
1 Cato Vonheim Norway €6,895
2 Eemeli Särkiniemi Finland €5,695
3 Dmitri Matõtsin Estonia €3,620
4 Ardi Valgemäe Estonia €2,760
5 Romans Krasins Latvia €2,100
6 Linda Tano Sweden €1,600
7 Toomas Mäkikokko Finland €1,290
8 Jevgenijs Silnikovs Latvia €1,070
9 Georgios Tsouloftas Cyprus €880
10 Hendrik Uibo Estonia €760
11 Jussi Perlinen Finland €760
12 Vllaznin Dida Sweden €670
13 Matias Knaapinen Finland €670
14 Toomas Marrandi Estonia €590
15 Arasch Mirzai Sweden €590
16 Theodoros Ampelikiotis Greece €530
17 Arto Lehtonen Finland €530
18 Tapio Aaltonen Finland €480
19 Stavros Petychakis Greece €480
20 Grigori Belimov Estonia €480
21 Johan Ekdahl Sweden €440
22 Elias Jalovaara Finland €440
23 Juha Suurholma Finland €440
24 Nazarii Piznak Ukraine €411
25 Jesse Huostila Finland €411
26 Kevin Kõre Estonia €411
27 Johan Bäckhäll Sweden €411

Poker Journalist Defeats Poker Pro in the €200 PL 7 Card Stud/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo

2025 Kings of Tallinn Jason Glatzer
Jason Glatzer

As mentioned in the intro, this poker journalist had a day to remember both on and away from the felts. While unsure about how to play this format of Stud seriously in the one-day Event #15: €200 PL 7 Card Stud/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo but was the chip leader by the time the final table was reached and never looked back en route to victory.

The camaraderie at the final table was amazing. It reminded me of when this author was growing up in New Jersey, playing fun poker games on a kitchen table, where all you needed was a deck of cards and a bag of coins.

It was an absolute pleasure to play for hours with this author’s friend, Tarjei Forus, and meet WSOP Circuit Calgary ring-winner Darren Kennedy for the first time. Kennedy was nothing but classy the entire way.

Meanwhile, Nikolay Ponomarev and this author had plenty of fun and banter as this author cruised along to victory to claim the €3,010 top prize.

Place Player Country Prize
1 Jason Glatzer Lithuania €3,010
2 Nikolay Ponomarev United Kingdom €1,930
3 Darren Kennedy Canada €1,290
4 Lee Horton England €920
5 Joonas Lumijärvi Finland €690
6 Tarjei Forus Norway €560
7 Robert Kaggerud Norway €454

€200 NLH Progressive Bounty Results

Henri Schalin, who has been to just about every Kings of Tallinn in its decade of history, won a trophy in Event #16: €200 NLH Progressive Bounty for €3,070 plus the big bounty at the end after defeating countrymate Elias Suhonen heads-up.

The event attracted 230 entries, creating a €36,363 prize pool, including €18,400 reserved for progressive bounties. Check out the full payouts below, but remember that the payouts table does not incorporate the bounties collected along the way.

1 Henri Schalin Finland €3,070
2 Elias Suhonen Finland €3,070
3 Tomi Arponen Finland €2,040
4 Egidijus Matonis Lithuania €1,460
5 Veronika Kozlenko Ukraine €1,070
6 Otso Seppänen Finland €810
7 Raimondas Juknevicius Lithuania €650
8 Mikko Pusa Finland €540
9 Sultans Ertinhajevs Latvia €453
10 Shinnosuke Matsumoto Japan €380
11 Niko Heikkinen Finland €380
12 Dmitri Damaskin Estonia €340
13 Karri Uusi-Äijö Finland €340
14 Hendry Kullamäe Estonia €300
15 Ahmet Canatan Denmark €300
16 Ville Krankkala Finland €270
17 Illia Petrytsia Ukraine €270
18 Henrik Puija Estonia €240
19 Maksim Belomestnõi Estonia €240
20 Bruno De Souza Brazil €240
21 Jarmo Salonen Finland €220
22 Joel Holmberg Finland €220
23 Kasparas Grigunas Lithuania €220
24 Siim Niido Estonia €210
25 Kristo Kadastik Estonia €210
26 Thord Hjälm Sweden €210
27 Jouko Sytelä Finland €210

€350 Dealers Choice Hi Only Results

Event #17: €350 Dealers Choice Hi Only attracted 77 entries to create a €22,199 prize pool. Finland’s Olli-Pekka Huuskonen denied the home country of Estonia a title after he defeated Erik Põlluveer heads-up to win the trophy and the €6,640 top prize.

Place Player Country Prize
1 Olli-Pekka Huuskonen Finland €6,640
2 Erik Põlluveer Estonia €4,430
3 Jarkko Suokas Finland €3,110
4 Martin von Zweigbergk Sweden €2,270
5 Leonidas Georgopoulos Greece €1,660
6 Tommi Lankinen Finland €1,360
7 Tobias Napel Norway €1,110
8 Max Rotko Finland €890
9 Riku Koivurinne Finland €729

2025 Kings of Tallinn Schedule Day 5 (Monday, Feb. 24)

Three more trophies will be awarded on Monday, while the poker.pro team will be busy live reporting Day 2 of the €555 NLH Kings of Tallinn Championship.

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

Time Event
12:00 Event #7: €555 KoT Championship Day 2
12:00 Event #19: Freebuy Satellite to €200 Estonian Independence Day Special (5 Seats GTD)
15:00 Event #20: €350 8-Game
17:00 Event #21: €555 NLH Deepstack Mystery Bounty Day 1
19:00 Event #22: €200 Deepstack Estonian Independence Day Special
21:00 Event #23: €200 NLH/PLO4/PLO5
22:30 Event #24: €150 Mega Satellite to the €1,100 Kings of Tallinn Main Event (10 x €1,100 Seats GTD)

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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