Two Chip Millionaires Emerge From €350 Mini Main Day 1a

2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn
2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn

The 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn was off to an amazing start, with the casino floor packed before the action moved upstairs in the Hilton Tallinn Park convention rooms on Saturday. Day 1a of Event #1: €350 Mini Main Event attracted a banner field of 274 entries to create a €81,377 prize pool, with 41 players bagging chips into Sunday’s Day 2 already in the money in this three-day affair.

Finland’s Ville-Matti Keränen (1,367,000) and Corne Scheel (1,106,000) emerged as chip millionaires as they parlayed their 50,000 opening stack into seven-figure stacks to lead the way with two-time WSOP Circuit Tallinn champion Roope Tarmi from Finland in third with 709,000.

Saturday will feature both Day 1b at Noon, followed by the final opening flight in Day 1c at 7 p.m. Both flights have a 30-minute clock, and the action concludes after the field is trimmed down to just 15 percent.

Stay hydrated and prepare for a long day as yesterday took approximately 12 hours from start to finish. Our team at poker.pro will be lightly covering all of the events today, but will be on the floor until players bag on Day 1b.

PlacePlayerCountryChips
1Finland Ville-Matti KeränenFinland1,367,000
2Netherlands Corne ScheelNetherlands1,106,000
3Finland Roope TarmiFinland709,000
4Lithuania Vytautas RiskeviciusLithuania655,000
5Netherlands Roy Van Der ReijnstNetherlands596,000
6Brazil Frederico Alves Dos SantosBrazil595,000
7Lithuania Edvinas TaraseviciusLithuania569,000
8Poland Tomasz KardasPoland538,000
9Poland Gabriel WolszczakPoland523,000
10Estonia Rauno KivilooEstonia522,000
11Kazakhstan Svetlana AubakirovaKazakhstan487,000
12Finland Toni VuolleFinland438,000
13Finland Johan AlenFinland409,000
14Finland Nico KumpulainenFinland409,000
15Finland Ville-Tappio MesirantaFinland380,000
16Norway Vidar AssersenNorway322,000
17Ukraine Oleksandr TarashevskyiUkraine310,000
18Finland Riku OksanenFinland305,000
19Norway Nicolai AustadNorway270,000
20Estonia Pavel SolodovnikovEstonia244,000
21Spain Adrian Jimenez RuanoSpain235,000
22Denmark Andreas BrendholdtDenmark232,000
23Serbia Toni RavnakSerbia231,000
24Finland Mikko YlämäkiFinland227,000
25Estonia Siim KabelEstonia221,000
26Finland Jarmo SalonenFinland214,000
27Latvia Janis ZablovskisLatvia182,000
28Russian Federation Maksim JankovskiRussia161,000
29Lithuania Egidijus MatonisLithuania153,000
30Switzerland Franco SpichtigSwitzerland129,000
31Norway Petter RichardsenNorway126,000
32Estonia Martin MändEstonia116,000
33Estonia Keio VardiEstonia110,000
34United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Dylan SnyderEngland105,000
35Czechia Matej HojkaCzech Republic92,000
36Finland Soile LerviksFinland91,000
37Spain Alejandro ValSpain87,000
38Israel Ruth GuperIsrael78,000
39Estonia Ralf MikkEstonia75,000
40Latvia Ricards ZelneronoksLatvia67,000
41Lithuania Andrius MazeikaLithuania35,000

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