Four New Kings of Tallinn Champions Crowned as Live Stream Begins Today

Monday delivered non-stop action at Olympic Park Casino and Hilton Tallinn Park as the 2026 Kings of Tallinn powered by OlyBet saw four new champions rise in side events.

WSOP Circuit Tallinn ring winner Riku Koivurinne claimed the €350 8-Game for €6,931. Greece’s Romperto Koskinidis took the €200 NLH Progressive Bounty for €4,070 plus bounties. Jukka Moisio won the €200 NLH Short Deck for €1,720. Markus Ylänne captured the €555 NLH Progressive Bounty title for €5,800 plus bounties.

Meanwhile, the €555 NLH Kings of Tallinn championship added 185 entries on Day 2, bringing the total to 608 entries and the prize pool to €282,720. Play pushed deep into the money with Lithuania’s Mindaugas Grigaitis atop the final 25 players. The final day also marks the start of the live stream at OlyBet social media and PokerProWorld YouTube, hosted by Andreas “Wiseguy” Hoglund and poker.pro CEO Jason Glatzer with guests including Rasmus Lundström, who finished 32nd for €1,450 on Day 2.

The poker.pro live reporting team, headlined by Christoffer Karlén, covers the action until a €555 NLH Championship winner is crowned, while also shifting focus to the popular €200 NLH Celebrity Event at 6 p.m.

The two-day €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty drew 80 entries for €74,400 in prizes, including €40,000 in mystery bounties. All of the prizes will be awarded on Tuesday, with the action down to a final table of nine players in the money, led by Lithuania’s Vasilij Barna, with 2020 Kings of Tallinn Main Event champion Johan Karlsson not too far behind.

Riku Koivurinne Wins 8-Game

Riku Koivurinne during the 2024 WSOP Circuit Tallinn. Photo: Elena Kask
2024 WSOP Circuit Tallinn ring winner Riku Koivurinne

The €350 8-Game attracted 80 mixed-game enthusiasts, resulting in €23,641 in prizes. While most final tables at the 2026 Kings of Tallinn are international affairs, this one in particular was dominated by Finnish players, with five of the six remaining players from the Scandinavian country after Estonia’s Kairit Leibold exited in seventh place for €1,010.

The podium was all Finns after Germany’s Benedict Kaiser (fourth – €2,270) and the Finnish duo of Ville Konttinen (fifth – €1,680) and Klaus Grönberg (sixth – €1,300) collected their payout slips.

Riku Koivurinne, who won the 2024 WSOP Circuit Tallinn €1,100 Pot Limit Omaha 4/5 Card Ring Event for €41,200, has found success both at Olympic Park Casino and in mixed-game events across Europe. He added another trophy to his collection after defeating Pasi Laihinen (second – €4,510) heads-up to win the €6,931 top prize. Finland’s Antti Suominen was also on the podium with a third-place performance worth €3,120.

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1 Riku KoivurinneFinland€6,931
2 Pasi LaihinenFinland€4,510
3 Antti SuominenFinland€3,120
4 Benedict KaiserGermany€2,270
5 Ville KonttinenFinland€1,680
6 Klaus GrönbergFinland€1,300
7 Kairit LeiboldEstonia€1,010
8 Toomas MäkikokkoFinland€790
9 Andrew WardUnited Kingdom€790
10 Morten AntonsenNorway€620
11 Bernd ReichGermany€620

Romperto Koskinidis Wins €200 NLH Progressive Bounty

The €200 NLH Progressive Bounty attracted a banner field of 328 entries, creating €51,777 in prizes, including €26,160 reserved for progressive bounties.

After Norway’s Morten Hermo (third – €2,817 plus bounties) was out of gas, Greece’s Romperto Koskinidis and Estonian resident from Spain Victor Prior Fernandez Amat both locked up the €4,070 top prize with still a massive bounty left to play for. Koskinidis got the job done to win the trophy, the only one of the day not won by a Finnish poker player.

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1 Romperto KoskinidisGreece€4,070
2 Victor Prior Fernandez AmatSpain€4,070
3 Morten HermoNorway€2,817
4 Jori MyllynevaFinland€1,940
5 Kenneth HeimdalNorway€1,390
6 Giuseppe BondiUnited Kingdom€1,010
7 Patric MattssonSweden€800
8 Robertas JasnauskasLithuania€670
9 Markus PohjolaFinland€560
10 Matts RundbySweden€480
11 Seyed TabaeiSweden€480
12 Harry NilssonSweden€420
13 Feras AbidFinland€420
14 Hans HelanderSweden€370
15 Jakob LöfgrenSweden€370
16 Leino PillerEstonia€330
17 Joshua TheilemannGermany€330
18 Amber SullivanUnited Kingdom€290
19 Matiss CelminsLatvia€290
20 Lawend HimmoSweden€290
21 Urmo EinardEstonia€260
22 Daniel RaissarEstonia€260
23 Baptiste CaimFrance€260
24 Jake MarstonUnited Kingdom€240
25 Julius KettunenFinland€240
26 Henri SchalinFinland€240
27 Jenny WesterlundSweden€240
28 Giedre ValgemäeLithuania€220
29 Martin HrivnakSlovakia€220
30 Tomi RissanenFinland€220
31 Daniels VorobjovsLatvia€220
32 Jyrki LampinenFinland€200
33 Linas BulksasLithuania€200
34 Daniel Lopez MarquezSpain€200
35 Teet PuuritsEstonia€200
36 John IvaresSweden€200
37 Rostyslav SabishchenkoUkraine€200
38 Christian HoffmannGermany€200
39 David OconnorIreland€200

Jukka Moisio Wins €200 NLH Short Deck

Jukka Moisio

The €200 NLH Short Deck attracted 26 entries to create a €4,111 prize pool with the top four players collecting at least a €500 min-cash.

Scott “PokerBrahs” Kenyon was live-streaming the action before bowing out in fourth place for €500. Estonian resident from Spain’s Adria Comas I Roura (third – €741) followed Kenyon to the payout desk before Finland’s Jukka Moisio defeated the United Kingdom’s Kyee Browne (second – €1,150) to win the trophy and the €1,720 top prize.

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1 Jukka MoisioFinland€1,720
2 Kyee BrowneUnited Kingdom€1,150
3 Adria Comas I RouraSpain€741
4 Scott KenyonUnited Kingdom€500

Markus Ylänne Wins €555 NLH Progressive Bounty

The €555 NLH Progressive Bounty witnessed 104 entries, creating €48,360 in prizes, including €20,800 in bounties.

The 2025 Kings of Tallinn champion from Latvia, Kaspars Butans, had another deep run before exiting in third place for €3,730, leaving Finland’s Markus Ylänne and USA’s Robert Schiffbauer heads-up for the title, with already the top prize of €5,800 locked up each.

Ylänne defeated Schiffbauer to win the trophy, the final big bounty, and, of course, bragging rights about becoming a champion at the 2026 Kings of Tallinn.

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1 Markus YlänneFinland€5,800
2 Robert SchiffbauerUnited States€5,800
3 Kaspars ButansLatvia€3,730
4 Simonas JuocysLithuania€2,760
5 Kim ÖfverströmFinland€2,070
6 Mindaugas SatkauskasLithuania€1,580
7 Vidar AssersenNorway€1,260
8 Sebastian WahlFinland€1,030
9 Vegard NygaardNorway€830
10 Barrie DearUnited Kingdom€720
11 Phil GrossGermany€720
12 Henri SchalinFinland€630
13 Anton NiemeläFinland€630

2026 Kings of Tallinn Schedule (February 10)

Juhani Tyrisevä at the 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn

The Tuesday tournament action at the 2026 Kings of Tallinn kicks off at Noon with the final day of the three-day €555 NLH Kings of Tallinn Championship with the live stream kicking off on a delay with hole cards exposed on a 30-minute delay. Also beginning at Noon is the inaugural €555 NLH Seniors Event and a Freebuy Mega Satellite guaranteeing at least 10 seats to the €200 NLH Celebrity Special.

There is plenty to choose from after that as well, with the one-day €350 NLH Deepstack beginning at 1 p.m., followed by the €200 PL Razz at 2 p.m., and the €2,000 PLO4 at 4 p.m.

Meanwhile, the €200 NLH Celebrity Special kicks off 6 p.m. and a massive crowd is expected as has been the case in previous years. The 17 marked Estonian and Finnish celebrities will all have mystery-prize bounties on their heads while players compete for a share of what promises to be a massive prize pool. The celebrities include:

  1. Erkki Sarapuu (Estonian TV host, DJ, and event host)
  2. Jüri Butšakov (Estonian TV host & journalist)
  3. Kristjan Jõekalda (Estonian TV host)
  4. Maarja-Liis Ilus (Estonian singer)
  5. Marjen Võsujalg (Estonian media, marketing, and big events expert)
  6. Priit Pajusaar (Estonian composer)
  7. Robert Rool (Estonian TV host)
  8. Silver Laas (Estonian singer, member of the band Traffic)
  9. Uudo Sepp (Estonian singer)
  10. Jaan Pehk (Estonian singer and writer)
  11. Kaspar Velberg (Estonian actor)
  12. Liis Lusmägi (Estonian TV host and journalist)
  13. Anti Reinthal (Estonian producer and actor)
  14. Amin Asikainen (Finnish boxer)
  15. Kim Herold (Finnish musician)
  16. Ilari Sahamies (Finnish poker superstar)
  17. Juhani Tyrisevä (Finnish poker journalist)

The tournament action concludes with the €200 NLH Satellite at 8:30 p.m. guaranteeing at least three seats to Wednesday’s €5,000 NLH High Roller, and the €150 Mega Satellite at 10:30 p.m., guaranteeing at least 10 seats to the €1 million guaranteed Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event.

In other news, for the first time ever, players can experience the Spin&Gold format in a live setting on the tournament floor thanks to the partnership between GGPoker and OlyBet Poker. The Spin&Gold Arena will run daily from February 10-14, from 4 p.m to 10 p.m., where players can win exclusive prizes and Main Event seats while playing fast-paced, three-max poker.

Check out the full schedule for Tuesday below and head to the Kings of Tallinn landing page at OlyBetEvents.com to review the full schedule, sign up for the OlyBet Team Challenge, a player’s guide, and more.

TimeEvent
12:00Event #14: €555 NLH Kings of Tallinn Championship Final Day
12:00Event #30: €555 NLH Seniors Event
12:00Event #31: FREEBUY NLH Mega-Satellite ( 10 x €200 Celebrity Event Seats GTD)
13:00Event #25: €1,100 NLH DeepStack Mystery Bounty Final Day
13:00Event #32: €350 NLH DeepStack
14:00Event #33: €200 PL Razz Progressive Bounty
16:00Event #34: €2,000 PLO4
18:00Event #35: €200 NLH Celebrity Special
20:30Event #36: €200 NLH Satellite to €5,000 Highroller (3 x €5,000 SEATS GTD)
22:30Event #37: €150 NLH Mega-Satellite to the €1,100 Kings of Tallinn Main Event (10 x €1,100 SEATS GTD)
  • Photos courtesy of Elena Kask / OlyBet Poker
  • Article originally produced at poker.pro.
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