Welcome to the final day of coverage of the Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park. Today will feature hour-long blind levels starting with the final two minutes of Level 22 with blinds at 10,000/20,000 before increasing to 10,000/25,000.
Australian globetrotter Adam Kharman leads a star-studded final table including the likes of WSOP gold bracelet winner Vincas Tamasauskas and old-school Finnish poker legend Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies.
Kharman took sixth place in this same event last year and shared with PokerListings yesterday that he was hunting for a better result this time around. He is now in a prime position to walk away with the trophy and the €64,280 top prize after bagging 3,340,000 in chips.
Only two more players bagged seven-figure stacks. Kurt Skimmeland will go into tomorrow's action with 2,255,000 in chips after making a correct hero call to eliminate Sebastian Wahl in 10th place, while Lithuania's Algirdas Saveikis was near 2 million after a fury of eliminations with three tables left but lost some chips and will start tomorrow in third place with 1,175,000.
Meanwhile, Sahamies was nearly about to enter the final table with just crumbs but he ended the night instead by eliminating Julian Herold when his ace-deuce flopped a full house against ace-ten in a battle of the short stacks in the blinds.
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kurt Skimmeland | Norway | 2,255,000 | 90 |
| 2 | Algirdas Saveikis | Lithuania | 1,175,000 | 47 |
| 3 | Ilari Sahamies | Finland | 765,000 | 31 |
| 4 | Adam Kharman | Australia | 3,340,000 | 134 |
| 5 | Jordi Baixas | Spain | 795,000 | 32 |
| 6 | Marius Olsvik | Norway | 345,000 | 14 |
| 7 | Ville Konttinen | Finland | 580,000 | 23 |
| 8 | Vincas Tamasauskas | Lithuania | 660,000 | 26 |
| Total | 9,915,000 | 397 | ||
| Average | 1,239,375 | 50 |
*Big blinds as of Level 23 (10,000/25,000) as there are just two minutes remaining in Level 22.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | €64,280 | |
| 2 | €48,150 | |
| 3 | €35,510 | |
| 4 | €25,050 | |
| 5 | €18,930 | |
| 6 | €14,130 | |
| 7 | €10,650 | |
| 8 | €7,860 | |
| 9 | Julian Herold | €5,700 |