Eirik Kristiansen Wins The Festival Tallinn Main Event (�56,100)
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Norway's Eirik Kristiansen sat down at The Festival Tallinn Main Event final table and a minor blip aside, came out on top to capture the �56,100 top prize, his largest-ever score, the title of champion, and the all-important winner's trophy. Before this event, Kristiansen's live tournament earnings tipped the scales at only $2,209. That sum is far more substantial after he outlasted 551 opponents in this exciting Estonia-based event.
The Festival Tallinn Main Event Final Table Results
Place | Player | Prize |
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1 | Eirik Kristiansen | �56,100 |
2 | Jari Mahonen | �36,120 |
3 | Kristoffer Winterstein | �22,040 |
4 | Mikael Viggander | �16,200 |
5 | Jero Keitaanranta | �12,100 |
6 | Rando Liiber | �9,100 |
7 | Toivo Ojasoo | �6,700 |
8 | Gregory Partridge | �5,100 |
9 | Sascha Manns | �3,950 |
The final table lost its first player on the first hand of the day. Sascha Manns could not win a coinflip against Kristiansen, with the latter's king-jack melting Manns' snowmen.
Eighth place went to Gregory Partridge who also lost a coinflip against Kristiansen. All the chips went into the middle with Patridge holding ace-queen against the pocket jacks of Kristiansen. No help arrived for the ace-queen, and the players received a little more elbow room.
The final seven became six with the elimination of Toivo Ojasoo. Ojasoo committed the last of their chips having paired their ace on an all-diamond flop. Mikael Viggander called the shove with a flush draw, which came in on the turn.
A relative cooler of a hand sent Rando Liiber to the cashier's desk to collect the last four-figure prize of the evening. Liiber opened then four-bet all in with pocket jacks when six-handed but ran straight into the pocket queens of Kristoffer Winterstein. A jack on the flop looked to have secured a double for Liiber, but a queen on the turn left him drawing to a single out, which did not arrive.
Finishing in fifth place was Jero Keitaanranta who three-bet all-in with pocket fives only for Kristiansen to cold-call out of the blind with a superior pair of eights. A double paired board resigned Keitaanranta to an early visit to the showers, although it came with �12,100 in prize money.
Kristiansen then eliminated Viggander in fourth place when he flopped top pair and turned a straight when Viggander had turned an expensive bottom set.
Heads-up was set when Winterstein ripped in 22 big blinds from the button with king-six, and Jari Mahonen called from the big blind with king-queen. Winterstein was drawing dead on the turn.
The one-on-one battle between Mahonen and Kristiansen initially began with both players being cautious. However, the final hand threw that caution to the wind. A three-times the big blind raise with nine-five of hearts from Mahonen was three-bet by Kristiansen with queen-deuce, and called by Mahonen. a five-four-trey board saw Kristansen over-bet jam for almost three-times the pot, but Mahonen called. The turn bricked but the river completed Kristansen's straight, and secured him the title.
The Festival Tallinn Side Events Results
Event | Buy-in | Entrants | Prize pool | Champion | Prize |
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Sviten Special | �250 | 77 | �16,632 | Frans Jonsson | �4,012 |
NLH Knockout | �60 | 83 | �4,150 | Koen Roos | �476 |
8-Game | �115 | 49 | �4,704 | Erno Suominen | �1,644 |
PLO Masters | �250 | 63 | �13,608 | Mohammed Halafi | �4,768 |
Win the Button | �115 | 114 | �10,944 | Kristoffer Winterstein | �1,794 |
NLH Progressive KO | �225 | 184 | �17,664 | Serguei Palomera | �3,207 |
PLO High Roller | �1,050 | 35 | �34,560 | Georgi Voomets | �10,909 |
H.O.R.S.E. | �250 | 64 | �13,824 | Espen Sandvik | �4,164 |
Half and Half (NLH/PLO) | �115 | 113 | �10,848 | Arild Torgersen | �2,708 |
PokerListings Deepstack | �250 | 252 | �54,432 | Kalle Ly | �10,736 |
Open Face Chinese | �330 | 37 | �10,656 | Vladislavs Petrovs | �3,568 |
NLH High Roller | �1,050 | 41 | �39,360 | Aleksi Naski | �10,860 |
PLO Turbo | �115 | 93 | �18,528 | Sami Kumpulainen | �4,058 |