Petter Berg Wins the 2026 Coolbet Open Main Event for €65,415

The ninth Coolbet Open has its champion. Norway’s Petter Berg won the record-breaking €550 Main Event on Saturday at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park in the Estonian capital Tallinn, collecting €65,415 after a hard-fought battle and defeating Georgia’s Sergi Kapanadze heads-up in a hand that will be talked about for years. Sad goodbyes are already being shared around the Hilton Tallinn Park as the ninth edition of one of the Baltics’ most beloved poker festivals winds down, with five more trophies awarded on Saturday alongside the Main Event crown, and one final send-off on Sunday before everyone heads home until next time.

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Petter Berg Wins the 2026 Coolbet Open Main Event

Petter Berg got the job done and earned the rights of becoming the ninth Coolbet Open €550 Main Event champion. The Norwegian grinder, well respected by his peers and the holder of a Norwegian Heads-Up Championship title, won the biggest Coolbet Open Main Event in the tournament’s history, navigating a record 753-entry field to claim €65,415 from the €357,675 prize pool. It was his first-ever Coolbet Open cash.

As was the case throughout the Main Event, Christoffer Karlén was live on the ground throughout the final day at poker.pro.

Berg started the final day just outside the top ten but began climbing quickly. By the time the first break arrived, after more than half the 54 returning players had been eliminated in the opening three levels, Berg had worked his way up to third in chips.

He seized the chip lead for the first time when two tables remained, following a decisive clash with overnight leader Oystein Stai that sent the Norwegian out in 12th place for €4,020. Defending champion Guillermo “GGordo” Cifuentes, who had been hoping to make back-to-back Coolbet Open final tables, was eliminated in 11th for €4,820 by Sergi Kapanadze, the Georgian who would become Berg’s opponent in the heads-up. Kapanadze burst the official final table by sending Atte Franssila home in 10th, also for €4,820.

At the final table, Kapanadze was the dominant force. He eliminated Roar Wang, Jarno Jokiniemi, and Rene Lazaro in succession and found himself with nearly half the chips in play when four players remained. Berg, meanwhile, had been doubling players up and was down to around ten big blinds.

What followed was one of the hands of the tournament: Berg got in king-nine against Tomi Bondarew’s ace-nine and flopped a king to double through. He recovered, built a stack, then eliminated both Bondarew and third-place finisher Kenneth Olaisen, going into heads-up with nearly a three-to-one chip lead over Kapanadze.

Kapanadze pushed back in the heads-up, even bluffing Berg off a hand early on. But Berg made two key plays that changed the match. First, he went runner-runner to win a big pot he had no right winning, firing into Kapanadze’s trip nines on a paired board with king-eight and catching running eights for a better two pair when Kapanadze wisely folded the river.

Then Berg called down a three-barrel bluff from Kapanadze, catching him with jack-high on a board that had given Berg two pair. Kapanadze was left with nine big blinds.

On the final hand, Berg shoved king-three on the button and Kapanadze called quickly from the big blind with queen-jack. The board ran three-ace-six-six-two. Berg’s pair of threes held and the title was his.

A large Norwegian rail had gathered at the final table and erupted in cheers and applause when the final card was dealt. Berg was swarmed by his friends and after a quick photoshoot headed into the Estonian night with his people and €65,415.

Asked about his win, Berg kept it characteristically brief. “It’s always good to finish first,” he told the Coolbet team.

Runner-up Sergi Kapanadze, a former member of the Georgian parliament, collected €43,060, by far the largest score of his career. Georgia has a growing poker community and Kapanadze’s performance in Tallinn will have been noticed back home.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Petter Berg	Norway	€65,415
2nd	Sergi Kapanadze	Georgia	€43,060
3rd	Kenneth Olaisen	Norway	€30,750
4th	Tomi Bondarew	Finland	€23,080
5th	Lazaro Cifuentes	Spain	€17,670
6th	Tomas Bulksas	Lithuania	€13,580
7th	Jarno Jokiniemi	Finland	€10,620
8th	Roar Wang	Norway	€7,990
9th	Jon Thorvaldsson	Iceland	€6,080
10th	Atte Franssila	Finland	€4,820
11th	Guillermo Gordo	Spain	€4,820
12th	Oystein Stai	Norway	€4,020
13th	Pal Koppegodt	Norway	€4,020
14th	Tomas Fernkvist	Sweden	€3,410
15th	Ville Keränen	Finland	€3,410
16th	Ragnar Linde	Estonia	€2,970
17th	Payam Seyedzadeh	Norway	€2,970
18th	Ranel Käsi	Estonia	€2,560
19th	John Blomberg	Finland	€2,560
20th	Maria Ling	Sweden	€2,560
21st	Kristaps Renga	Latvia	€2,250
22nd	Frederico Dos Santos	Brazil	€2,250
23rd	Pekka Ikonen	Finland	€2,250
24th	Conny Eriksson	Finland	€1,960
25th	Julia Kuusijärvi	Finland	€1,960
26th	Xavier Lyu	United States	€1,960
27th	Erik Hamre	Norway	€1,960
28th	Mihkel Ustav	Estonia	€1,680
29th	William Aravena	Chile	€1,680
30th	Lauri Tuominen	Finland	€1,680
31st	Joonas Helin	Finland	€1,680
32nd	Kristian Dahl	Norway	€1,480
33rd	Olaf Larssen	Norway	€1,480
34th	Ranno Sootla	Estonia	€1,480
35th	Kjetil Hanstvedt	Norway	€1,480
36th	Bjorn Ophaug	Norway	€1,480
37th	Leo Alatalo	Finland	€1,480
38th	Gabriel Terol	Spain	€1,480
39th	Lluis Murcia	Spain	€1,480
40th	Halldor Sverrisson	Iceland	€1,350
41st	Robert Rohr	Germany	€1,350
42nd	Raimo Ahola	Finland	€1,350
43rd	Gunnar Leifsson	Iceland	€1,350
44th	Atso Lindell	Finland	€1,350
45th	Andreas Backlund	Finland	€1,350
46th	Jarmo Salonen	Finland	€1,350
47th	Dominykas Buda	Lithuania	€1,350
48th	Yevhen Pavlenko	Ukraine	€1,350
49th	Priit Brikker	Estonia	€1,350
50th	Korneliusz Jelinski	Poland	€1,350
51st	Axel Hilmisson	Iceland	€1,350
52nd	Arasch Mirzai	Sweden	€1,350
53rd	Alger Pissarev	Estonia	€1,350
54th	Sindre Rönquist	Norway	€1,350
55th	Jonas Lapinskas	Lithuania	€1,350
56th	Luis Palma	Chile	€1,230
57th	Jerry Villa	Finland	€1,230
58th	Toivo Ojasoo	Estonia	€1,230
59th	Mark Metsla	Estonia	€1,230
60th	Jan Holte	Norway	€1,230
61st	Siim Suviste	Estonia	€1,230
62nd	Daniel Vasser	Estonia	€1,230
63rd	Mounir Tajiou	Sweden	€1,230
64th	Toomas Mäkikokko	Finland	€1,230
65th	Baldvin Borgarsson	Iceland	€1,230
66th	Heikki Haapasaari	Finland	€1,230
67th	Miska Vihervuori	Finland	€1,230
68th	Jami Juutila	Finland	€1,230
69th	Johan Storåkers	Sweden	€1,230
70th	Matti Mustonen	Finland	€1,230
71st	Gunnar Jacobsen	Norway	€1,230
72nd	John Hagstrand	Sweden	€1,120
73rd	Brage Aasen	Norway	€1,120
74th	Jere Laitinen	Finland	€1,120
75th	Stanislovas Vinicenka	Lithuania	€1,120
76th	Timo Rantamäki	Finland	€1,120
77th	Joel Holmberg	Finland	€1,120
78th	Teemu Leppälahti	Finland	€1,120
79th	Jarkko Suokas	Finland	€1,120
80th	Gretar Steindorsson	Iceland	€1,120
81st	Daniel Åkesson	Sweden	€1,120
82nd	Karol Olszewski	Poland	€1,120
83rd	Denise Fodor	Denmark	€1,120
84th	Peeter Talviste	Estonia	€1,120
85th	Steven Tool	Estonia	€1,120
86th	Martin Willborg	Sweden	€1,120
87th	Anders Bjorkheim	Norway	€1,120
88th	Markus Volk	Finland	€1,120
89th	Mario Colavita	Italy	€1,120
90th	Kalle Kulju	Finland	€1,120
91st	Peter Sbertoli	Norway	€1,120
92nd	Pyry Kekäläinen	Finland	€1,120
93rd	Sebastien Schang	France	€1,120
94th	Adalbjörn Jonsson	Iceland	€1,120
95th	Jonatan Wedde	Norway	€1,120

Anders Karlsen Wins Second Trophy of the Festival in the €1,100 High Roller

Norway’s Anders Karlsen had already collected more bounty money than anyone else in the Mystery Bounty earlier in the week. On Saturday he added a trophy to his Coolbet Open haul, winning the €1,100 NLH High Roller for €27,070 from a record 97-entry field worth €92,150.

Karlsen defeated Latvia’s Edgars Hauks heads-up, with Germany’s Martin Zobel, who had led the field overnight, finishing third for €12,160. Spain’s David Marfil, who finished fourth in the 2026 WSOP Circuit Tallinn Main Event for €68,575 earlier this summer, as covered by poker.pro, finished fifth here for €6,530. Sweden’s Rohan Oberoi, who recently founded the Pebel staking app, finished ninth for €2,810.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Anders Karlsen	Norway	€27,070
2nd	Edgars Hauks	Latvia	€17,590
3rd	Martin Zobel	Germany	€12,160
4th	Antti Takala	Finland	€8,840
5th	David Marfil	Spain	€6,530
6th	Raivo Grislis	Latvia	€4,940
7th	Paul Le Cheviller	France	€4,040
8th	Tommy Sorensen	Norway	€3,350
9th	Rohan Oberoi	Sweden	€2,810
10th	Eskil Kvamvold	Norway	€2,410
11th	Jari-Pekka Juhola	Finland	€2,410

Mathias Christensen Wins the €350 PLO4/PLO5 Mystery Bounty

Sweden’s Mathias Christensen won the €350 PLO4/PLO5 Deepstack Mystery Bounty for a combined total of €12,000. The prize pool paid out €4,000 for first place, and Christensen also pulled the €8,000 top mystery bounty envelope during the course of Day 2, giving him €12,000 in all.

Portugal’s Manuel Lopes, who had led the 13-player field overnight, collected €5,258 between his prize pool finish and the bounty envelopes he opened during the day. The 104-entry event generated a €15,028 prize pool with mystery bounties ranging from €300 to the €4,000 top bounty.

Place	Player	Country	Prize	Bounty	Total
1st	Mathias Christensen	Sweden	€4,000	€8,000	€12,000
2nd	Manuel Lopes	Portugal	€2,758	€2,500	€5,258
3rd	Jani Forsten	Finland	€1,900	€2,300	€4,200
4th	Bo Göthlin	Sweden	€1,380	€500	€1,880
5th	Tommi Hakala	Finland	€1,060	€0	€1,060
6th	Andre Sivertsen	Norway	€860	€0	€860
7th	Antti Pietarinen	Finland	€690	€300	€990
8th	Toni Ojala	Finland	€560	€0	€560
9th	Mikko Harmaa	Finland	€440	€2,000	€2,440

Arild Haugland Wins the €200 Open-Face Chinese Pineapple

Norway swept the entire podium in the €200 OFC Pineapple, with Arild Haugland winning for €2,771, Borge Dypvik finishing second for €1,930, and Eirik Bjorbak third for €1,380 from a 47-entry field worth €7,591.

Three Norwegians, three spots, zero room for anyone else. Bjorbak had also made the final table of the Tuesday PLO4, making him one of the more active mixed game players across the week.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Arild Haugland	Norway	€2,771
2nd	Borge Dypvik	Norway	€1,930
3rd	Eirik Bjorbak	Norway	€1,380
4th	Toni Järvisalo	Finland	€930
5th	Sven Reimaa	Estonia	€580

Jukka Moisio Wins the €350 NLH Deepstack with Added Prizes

Finland’s Jukka Moisio has been a frequent visitor to Tallinn over the years and on Saturday he recorded the biggest score of his poker career. Moisio won the €350 NLH Deepstack with Added Prizes from a massive 242-entry field for €15,029, pushing his lifetime recorded earnings past $100,000 on the Hendon Mob.

The event featured added prizes raffled during play, including packages to the 2027 Coolbet Open and tickets to the 2026 Festival Weekend Tallinn in November. Norway’s Markus Mortensen finished runner-up for €9,340 and Norway’s Ole Johnny Karlsen took third for €6,680.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Jukka Moisio	Finland	€15,029
2nd	Markus Mortensen	Norway	€9,340
3rd	Ole Johnny Karlsen	Norway	€6,680
4th	Jawad Habib	Sweden	€5,070
5th	Martin Willborg	Sweden	€3,960
6th	Tommi Hakala	Finland	€3,160
7th	Evija Beizaka	Latvia	€2,600
8th	Enea Subashi	Greece	€2,170
9th	Aleksandr Geller	Estonia	€1,890

Sascha Manns Wins the €250 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 Progressive Bounty

Sascha Manns has made the trip to Tallinn many times and the mixed game events on the Coolbet Open schedule are where he is most comfortable. On Saturday he claimed the €250 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 Progressive Bounty title from a 122-entry field, with Germany producing an all-German heads-up as Victor Hochheiden finished runner-up.

Both players collected €2,669 from the prize pool itself, with bounty money accumulated throughout the day on top for each. Manns won the tournament and walked away with the largest total, with no deal struck between the two going into heads-up.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Sascha Manns	Germany	€2,669
2nd	Victor Hochheiden	Germany	€2,669
3rd	Dennis Holst	Sweden	€1,730
4th	Jani Forsten	Finland	€1,200
5th	Jarmo Salonen	Finland	€920
6th	Joonas Salo	Finland	€720
7th	Julia Kuusijärvi	Finland	€600
8th	Thomas Lind	Sweden	€500
9th	Jani Mäkinen	Finland	€430

Ville-Matti Keränen Wins Sycksbe’s Hyper Turbo

Finland’s Ville-Matti Keränen, a player well known to Estonian poker rooms, won the €200 NLH Sycksbe’s Hyper Turbo from a strong 138-entry field for €5,527, defeating Finland’s Toni Järvisalo heads-up in an all-Finnish final. Both players know Estonia well and Keränen’s win was a fitting close to a night where Finland dominated across the board.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Ville-Matti Keränen	Finland	€5,527
2nd	Toni Järvisalo	Finland	€3,610
3rd	Bo Göthlin	Sweden	€2,580
4th	Knut Gronli	Norway	€1,930
5th	Mikko Harmaa	Finland	€1,460
6th	Frederic Janik	France	€1,170
7th	Roar Wang	Norway	€960
8th	Hafsteinn Baldursson	Iceland	€790
9th	Kjetil Hanstvedt	Norway	€640

See You at the Coolbet Closer

The ninth Coolbet Open is not quite over. Sunday brings one final event at Olympic Park Casino: the €200 NLH Coolbet Closer Hyper Turbo, the traditional send-off event that gives players one last chance to sit across from each other before everyone heads home. The goodbyes being shared around the Hilton Tallinn Park on Saturday night will continue through Sunday as the ninth edition winds down. Plans for the 2027 Coolbet Open are already in the works. Until then, congratulations to Petter Berg and every player who made the trip to Tallinn. The ninth edition was the biggest and best in the festival’s history, and the record it set will take some beating.

• Images courtesy of Elena Kask / Coolbet Open
• Article originally produced at poker.pro.