Estonia’s Rauno Ratt Bags Day 1a Chip Lead

The €1 million guaranteed Main Event was off to a great start with 175 entries battling it out for nine levels of one hour each.

Estonia’s Rauno Ratt performed the best after parlaying his 30,000 opening stack into 253,500 in chips to end the day with the chip lead. Sweden’s Mikael Grönvik, Norway’s Kristian Aksnes (180,800), Sweden’s Peter Kvisthammar (172,600), and Finland’s Sauli Haapaniemi (172,100) round out the top five on the Day 1a leaderbard.

Wednesday will boast two more opening flights on both Wednesday, Feb. 26 and Thursday, Feb. 27 at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. respectively with the later starts featuring 40-minute blind levels instead of 60 minutes.

Late registration remains open not only throughout the five opening flights of the 10th anniversary of the Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event, but also until the start of the fifth level of Day 2, giving players plenty of opportunities to get involved in what will be a record setting prize pool for the festival.

Frank Visser will be reporting the action at poker.pro starting on Day 2 as soon as cards are in the air on Friday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. In the meantime, we will update with chip counts and more from the opening flights before posting the seat draw Friday morning.

Place	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Rauno Ratt	Estonia	253,500	211
2	Mikael Grönvik	Sweden	198,900	166
3	Kristian Aksnes	Norway	180,800	151
4	Peter Kvisthammar	Sweden	172,600	144
5	Sauli Haapaniemi	Finland	172,100	143
6	Panagiotis Mavritsakis	Greece	152,600	127
7	Ville-Tapio Mesiranta	Finland	146,600	122
8	Yaniv Peretz	Latvia	143,700	120
9	Benjamin Gros	France	130,100	108
10	Dmitri Damaskin	Estonia	127,000	106
11	Tero Laurila	Finland	127,000	106
12	Jimmy Dewerdt	France	126,800	106
13	Ludvig Sterner	Sweden	126,500	105
14	Giedrius Karpavicius	Lithuania	124,800	104
15	Sondre Stormyr	Norway	123,700	103
16	Mindaugas Grigaitis	Lithuania	115,200	96
17	Kestutis Jungevicius	Lithuania	112,500	94
18	Santtu Leinonen	Finland	112,100	93
19	Igor Pihela Jr.	Estonia	111,500	93
20	Luka Sorainen	Finland	110,300	92
21	Magnus Pukk	Estonia	108,700	91
22	Andre Mägi	Estonia	108,000	90
23	Roope Tarmi	Finland	100,700	84
24	Samuel Richards	Great Britain	98,500	82
25	Joakim Brochard	France	96,800	81
26	Simon Hassan	Sweden	91,500	76
27	Daniel Tordjman	France	91,200	76
28	Ruslan Stserbjuk	Estonia	87,100	73
29	Adria Comas I Roura	Spain	87,000	73
30	Michal Cornak	Czech Republic	82,400	69
31	Justinas Adomauskas	Lithuania	75,100	63
32	Risto Pönniö	Finland	74,800	62
33	Stein Pedersen	Norway	72,900	61
34	Arto Lehtonen	Finland	70,200	59
35	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	69,800	58
36	Mykolas Savickas	Lithuania	69,200	58
37	Arturs Daugis	Latvia	68,500	57
38	Akseli Hosia	Estonia	65,500	55
39	Peder Behr	Sweden	63,900	53
40	Tim Van Kemenade	Netherlands	61,400	51
41	Roberto Olsen	Sweden	59,600	50
42	Johan Storakers	Sweden	57,300	48
43	Mehdi Saidi	France	55,000	46
44	Henning Andre	Sweden	46,100	38
45	Mantas Liachauskas	Lithuania	44,700	37
46	Totti Arosuo	Finland	44,300	37
47	Risto Laanemets	Estonia	43,700	36
48	Vladimiras Meckovskis	Lithuania	43,600	36
49	Madis Vill	Estonia	41,200	34
50	Fidan Zahiti	Sweden	40,000	33
51	Patric Mattsson	Sweden	39,500	33
52	Richard Koppel	Estonia	37,100	31
53	Viktors Caikins	Latvia	30,200	25
54	Josep Pastor De Ramon	Spain	28,700	24
55	Mairo Tori	Estonia	26,500	22
56	Isak Bergström	Sweden	26,000	22
57	Tarmo Tammel	Estonia	24,500	20
58	Allan Arjut	Estonia	20,900	17
59	Serhii Leonov	Ukraine	20,200	17
60	Christian Hoffmann	Germany	20,000	17