It was supposed to be a three-day affair, but the high rollers at Bombay High Stakes Week had other plans.
The third day of the week was reserved for Day 2 of the €25,000 Main Event at Tallinn’s prestigious Bombay Club, but instead of carefully navigating ICM pressure and dragging it out with tanked decisions, players hit the gas. You usually expect high stakes pros to milk every second of the clock, but it seems nobody got that memo at the Bombay Club. They raced through the field and the event was under the roof in just two days.
When the dust settled on this, let’s not say turbo edition of the Main, Estonia’s Kaspar Kaisel stood tall, lifting the trophy and banking €339,500. After an hour-long heads-up battle, he defeated Marat Kasparov, who still had reason to smile with a runner-up payday of €221,400. Not too shabby for two days of work.
Not much is known about Kaisel, even mighty Google draws a blank, which often signals a well-off businessman taking a dip into the high stakes pool or an online grinder. What we do know is this is only his third recorded cash, joining previous scores at the 2023 EPT Barcelona and last year’s WSOP Circuit Tallinn Main Event. And now he’s a Bombay High Stakes Week champion!
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Bombay High Stakes Week – €25,000 Main Event Final Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kaspar Kaisel | Estonia | €339,500 |
| 2 |  Marat Kasparov | Armenia | €221,400 |
| 3 |  Ville-Petteri Wahlbeck | Finland | €152,500 |
| 4 |  Kayhan Roshanfekr Mokri | Norway | €113,200 |
| 5 |  Aleksejs Ponakovs | Latvia | €88,500 |
| 6 |  Erik Bauer | Netherlands | €68,900 |
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Bombay High Stakes Week – €25,000 Main Event Final Day Recap
The field was set after 11 survivors from Day 1 were joined by 10 fresh entries at the start of Day 2. That brought the total to 41 entries, good for a prize pool of €984,000, just shy of a million euro mark.
Play began at 1 p.m. local time, and thanks to the late reg period, a few players even managed a re-entry. But only six spots paid, so even reaching the final table didn’t guarantee money in the pockets.
Among the early exits was local hero Markkos Ladev, denied a third Bombay Club title as he bowed out in 15th. Shortly after, Ottomar Ladva, the chess grandmaster and winner of the €10K Warm-Up, busted in 11th. His dream of defending February’s Main Event win was over.
At this point, the play slowed down as the remaining ten players fought for their place at the final table. The Netherlands’ Jellie Moene was out on 10th and Thomas Santerne was the bubble boy for the official final table in ninth. Lithuanian Rokas Asipauskas couldn’t squeeze himself in the money and hit the rail in eighth place. He was recently second in the High Roller event at the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius.
The bubble loomed large and Teun Mulder will not remember it fondly. He finished seventh, just outside the money for €68,900. To make things worse, it was his second consecutive stone-cold bubble at this series, as he also missed out in fifth place at the €10K Warm-Up with only four paid. Ouch.
That meant his fellow countryman Erik Bauer was the first to bank a payday, earning €68,900 in sixth. He was followed by Aleksejs Ponakovs (5th for €86,500), while start-of-the-day chip leader Kayhan Mokri had to settle for a fourth-place finish worth €113,200. Still a nice band-aid after firing five bullets without a cash in the Warm-Up event.
One of the more consistent stories of the week is Ville-Petteri Wahlbeck, who followed up his runner-up finish in the Warm-Up with another podium finish here for €152,500.
That left Kaspar Kaisel and Marat Kasparov to battle it out for the title. Kasparov, a hedge fund manager based between Dubai and Europe, had to settle for second best this time, as the win stayed in Estonia thanks to Kaisel.
Today, the Big One
Even though the Main Event wrapped up early, there’s no time to rest at the Bombay Club. Today, the action continues with Day 1 of the €50,000 Bombay Big 50, the highest buy-in of the week.
The cards will be in the air from 18:00 local time, with a cap of 64 players and an eight-handed No Limit Hold’em format. Survivors will return tomorrow to play down to another six-figure payday.
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