Grantas Naujokas Wins the 2026 Kings of Tallinn Autumn Edition Main Event for €104,310

Players shared emotional goodbyes as they cheered on teammates and friends for the final titles on the line Sunday at the 2026 Kings of Tallinn, powered by OlyBet Poker, at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park. Most eyes were on the conclusion of the €1,100 Main Event, and Lithuania’s Grantas Naujokas made it look easy on his way to victory, crowning him the latest King.

He led the chip counts from the end of Day 2, carried that lead through Day 3 to the final table, and never gave up the top spot. On Sunday night at Olympic Park Casino in Tallinn, Naujokas turned his king-queen into a rivered straight to defeat Latvia’s Krisjanis Balodis with ace-six, and the 2026 Kings of Tallinn Autumn Edition Main Event crowned its champion.

He takes home €104,310 from a 607-entry, €564,510 prize pool. Balodis, who entered the nine-handed final table last in chips with just 715,000, defied his position in the counts all day and earned €71,400 for runner-up. Norway’s Samuel Adnoy rounded out the podium for €47,850.

Sweden’s Johan Creutz walked away with a different kind of double. The former Kings of Tallinn Main Event champion cashed at 14th in the Main Event before late-entering the €3,000 NLH on Saturday, returned Sunday to a five-handed final table, and ran it down to win for €38,550.

The goodbyes at the Hilton Tallinn Park weren’t just warm ones for the two marquee events; the three other side events also awarded trophies. Sweden’s Lena Björn won the €200 Open-Face Chinese Pineapple for €1,960, Ireland’s James Noonan took the €200 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 Progressive Bounty for €873, and Norway’s Tarjei Forus shipped the €350 NLH Deepstack Turbo for €5,298.

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Grantas Naujokas Wins the €1,100 Kings of Tallinn Main Event

There was never really a moment when Grantas Naujokas looked like he was going to lose this. Lithuania’s Naujokas bagged the largest stack at the end of Day 2, sat atop 64 survivors entering Day 3 with 909,000, and left Day 3 with 5,215,000, more than five times what he started with.

He arrived at Sunday’s nine-handed final table at Olympic Park Casino as the heavy chip leader, and he stayed there. He won the title after hitting a straight with king-queen after calling Latvia’s Krisjanis Balodis’s shove with ace-six. The Lithuanian pocketed €104,310 from a 607-entry, €564,510 prize pool.

Balodis’s run was the other story of the day. He came to the table in eighth chip position with 715,000 and could have been forgiven for hanging tight while others hit the rail to move up the payout ladder. He worked through the field and battled all the way to heads-up before the river ended his run. His €71,400 runner-up prize was well-earned. Norway’s Samuel Adnoy took third for €47,850.

Iryna Tsikhanskaya, born in Belarus but based in Vilnius, had an incredible run, becoming the last female standing. She carried 1,355,000 chips into the finale as the sixth stack, navigated through five players ahead of her, and finished a strong fourth for €33,600, the deepest run by any woman in this year’s Main Event.

Finland’s Juhani Hassi was fifth for €25,350, Latvia’s Martins Poritis sixth for €18,950, Estonia’s Evgeny Vyal seventh for €14,350, Latvia’s Arturs Krasnoluckis eighth for €11,650, and Finland’s Julius Kettunen rounded out the final table in ninth for €9,450.

€1,100 buy-in | 607 entries | €564,510 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Grantas Naujokas	Lithuania	€104,310
2	Krisjanis Balodis	Latvia	€71,400
3	Samuel Adnoy	Norway	€47,850
4	Iryna Tsikhanskaya	Lithuania	€33,600
5	Juhani Hassi	Finland	€25,350
6	Martins Poritis	Latvia	€18,950
7	Evgeny Vyal	Estonia	€14,350
8	Arturs Krasnoluckis	Latvia	€11,650
9	Julius Kettunen	Finland	€9,450
10	Kert Soitu	Estonia	€8,050
11	Andrei-Iustin Birgaoanu	Romania	€8,050
12	Edgars Hauks	Latvia	€6,950
13	Ville-Tapio Mesiranta	Finland	€6,950
14	Johan Creutz	Sweden	€6,200
15	Lars Sedvall Kjestrup	Sweden	€6,200
16	Xavier Lyu	United States	€5,500
17	Tomas Kirchovas	Lithuania	€5,500
18	David Marfil	Spain	€4,900
19	Jordi Baixas	Spain	€4,900
20	Erhan Efe Arican	Turkey	€4,900
21	Sander Leigri	Estonia	€4,300
22	Artjoms Skvarkovskis	Latvia	€4,300
23	Mantas Bagocius	Lithuania	€4,300
24	Julian Selinger	Germany	€3,750
25	Juho Suutari	Finland	€3,750
26	Samuel Ju	Germany	€3,750
27	Martin Zobel	Germany	€3,750
28	Mikael Haapaniemi	Finland	€3,300
29	Miika Toyras	Finland	€3,300
30	Linas Bulksas	Lithuania	€3,300
31	Jawad Habib	Sweden	€3,300
32	Pasi Laihinen	Finland	€2,900
33	Iiro Elomaa	Finland	€2,900
34	Rokas Barzdzius	Lithuania	€2,900
35	Adrian Jimenez Ruano	Spain	€2,900
36	Igor Pihela	Estonia	€2,900
37	Johan Karlsson	Sweden	€2,900
38	Yaniv Peretz	Israel	€2,900
39	Eedi Kirves	Estonia	€2,900
40	Martin Piik	Estonia	€2,550
41	Jorgen Andersen	Denmark	€2,550
42	Mikko Ylamaki	Finland	€2,550
43	Philippe Lefrancois	Canada	€2,550
44	Sergi Kapanadze	Georgia	€2,550
45	Tiiu Naar	Estonia	€2,550
46	Kaarle Parikka	Finland	€2,550
47	Jesus Martinez Ucero	Spain	€2,550
48	Andrei Rozinko	Estonia	€2,550
49	Oskar Ojaveer	Estonia	€2,550
50	Mounir Tajiou	Sweden	€2,550
51	Kristaps Kalva	Latvia	€2,550
52	Scotty Nguyen	United States	€2,550
53	Mario Boos	France	€2,550
54	Lluis Murcia Grano	Spain	€2,550
55	Pasi Sormunen	Finland	€2,550
56	Jon Martinez De Antonana Garaial	Spain	€2,300
57	Kimmo Kurko	Finland	€2,300
58	James Noonan	Ireland	€2,300
59	Antoine Vranken	Netherlands	€2,300
60	Erik Polluveer	Estonia	€2,300
61	Audrius Navickas	Lithuania	€2,300
62	Totti Matias Arosuo	Finland	€2,300
63	Teemu Sattanen	Finland	€2,300
64	Ludwig Hedstrom	Sweden	€2,300
65	Arti Mustkivi	Estonia	€2,300
66	Yevhen Pavlenko	Ukraine	€2,300
67	Mark Metsla	Estonia	€2,300
68	Martynas Saltis	Lithuania	€2,300
69	Juuso Oksanen	Finland	€2,300
70	Siim Suviste	Estonia	€2,300
71	Henri Vosokovski	Estonia	€2,300
72	Lasse Melby	Norway	€2,200
73	Raini Lelle	Estonia	€2,200
74	Alex Reza Gholiha	Sweden	€2,200
75	Henri Mikael Schalin	Finland	€2,200
76	Raivo Grislis	Latvia	€2,200
77	Josep Ruiz Mercade	Spain	€2,200
78	Guillermo Gordo Cifuentes	Spain	€2,200
79	Urmo Velvelt	Estonia	€2,200

Johan Creutz Wins the €3,000 NLH

Some players show up to Tallinn and grind. Sweden’s Johan Creutz shows up and wins. He knows the feeling. Creutz won the Kings of Tallinn Main Event back in 2016 as a recreational player, liked it enough to turn pro, and has been on the European circuit ever since.

A decade later, he came back and did it again. He went deep in the Main Event, cashing out at 14th for €6,200, then late-entered the €3,000 NLH on Saturday. He came back Sunday to a five-handed final table, ran through the remaining field, and closed it out for €38,550.

That is two big cashes at the same festival in back-to-back days, including the high roller title. Finland’s Mikael Haapaniemi took runner-up for €27,650, and Estonia’s Mark Metsla earned €19,100 for third. The 40-entry field generated a €106,400 prize pool.

€3,000 buy-in | 40 entries | €106,400 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Johan Creutz	Sweden	€38,550
2	Mikael Haapaniemi	Finland	€27,650
3	Mark Metsla	Estonia	€19,100
4	Pasi Laihinen	Finland	€13,050
5	Matiss Celmins	Latvia	€8,050

Tarjei Forus Wins the €350 NLH Deepstack Turbo

Norway’s Tarjei Forus turned Sunday into a two-event payday. The Norwegian circuit regular has been a fixture at Kings of Tallinn, cashing PLO and OFC events in prior editions, and he carried that form into this festival. He cashed in the €200 PLO Progressive Bounty first, then returned to win the €350 NLH Deepstack Turbo for €5,298, topping a 54-entry field worth €15,568. Forus has been on a strong run in 2026, with a career-best result earlier this year at the WSOP Circuit Estonia, and will head to WSOP Paradise with a $5,000 package after winning Ring Event #6: €1,100 PLO4/PLO5 for €43,930.

Sweden’s Ludwig Hedstrom, who had also found the money in the Main Event, finished runner-up for €3,400. Finland’s Henri Schalin took third for €2,260.

€350 buy-in | 54 entries | €15,568 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Tarjei Forus	Norway	€5,298
2	Ludwig Hedstrom	Sweden	€3,400
3	Henri Schalin	Finland	€2,260
4	Arttu Tapiomaki	Finland	€1,610
5	Sascha Manns	Germany	€1,220
6	Espen Hagen	Norway	€980
7	Martin Willborg	Sweden	€800

James Noonan Wins the €200 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 Progressive Bounty

The €200 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 Progressive Bounty witnessed 39 entries bringing €6,166 in prizes including €3,120 in bounties.

Ireland’s James Noonan, who has called Tallinn home for years, knows his way around the European circuit. The County Longford native has been playing professionally since his late teens, grinding live events across the continent for over a decade. He made the Main Event money earlier in the festival (58th, €2,300), then returned to win the PLO Bounty title after defeating Czech Republic’s Karel Kratochvil. Both walked away with €873 from the base prize pool out of a 39-entry, with Noonan winning the trophy and the big bounty at the end.

Sweden’s Mounir Tajiou, who founded No Filter Poker, took third for €630. Norway’s Tarjei Forus rounded out the money in fifth for €250 before going on to win the NLH Deepstack Turbo later that evening.

€200 buy-in | 39 entries | €3,046 prize pool + €3,120 bounties

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	James Noonan	Ireland	€873
2	Karel Kratochvil	Czech Republic	€873
3	Mounir Tajiou	Sweden	€630
4	Erik Polluveer	Estonia	€420
5	Tarjei Forus	Norway	€250

* Prize amounts do not include bounties..

Lena Björn Wins the €200 Open-Face Chinese Pineapple

OFC Pineapple has found a home on the Kings of Tallinn schedule, and Sweden’s Lena Björn made herself at home in it. Björn topped the 31-entry €200 Open-Face Chinese Pineapple field for €1,960 from a €4,901 prize pool.

OFC Pineapple is a specialist game that many call the closest thing to chess in poker, and the players who win at this level know the format well. Netherlands’ Antoine Vranken, who had also cashed the Main Event, finished runner-up for €1,370. Finland’s Kaapo Tapio took third for €880 and Estonia’s Kristjan Abakanov cashed in fourth for €690.

€200 buy-in | 31 entries | €4,901 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Lena Björn	Sweden	€1,960
2	Antoine Vranken	Netherlands	€1,370
3	Kaapo Tapio	Finland	€880
4	Kristjan Abakanov	Estonia	€690

Up Next at OlyBet Events

The 2026 Kings of Tallinn Autumn Edition has wrapped up, and the goodbyes have been said at the Hilton Tallinn Park. But the calendar keeps moving, and plenty of poker is ahead for players in this part of the world.

The European Mixed Poker Championship is the next stop on the OlyBet calendar, and it is coming right back to Tallinn. EMPC 2026 runs October 26-31 at Olympic Park Casino, with 12 events on the schedule including the €800 8-Game Main Event and two €1,500 high rollers. For mixed-game players, this is the event on the European calendar right now.

The Festival Tallinn will bring the action back to Estonia before long on November 20-29. The Festival series has built a reputation for well-run events and strong fields, and its Tallinn stop delivers both. With a growing Main Event and a format players trust, it has earned its place on the circuit.

Kings of Vilnius brings the energy of Kings of Tallinn to Lithuania’s capital. The 2026 edition runs December 4-13 at Olympic Casino Lietuva in Vilnius, with 35 events across ten days and a €250,000 guaranteed €1,100 NLH Main Event.

And then there is the 2027 Kings of Tallinn. Save the dates: February 19-28, 2027. This edition proved once again that OlyBet Poker and the Hilton Tallinn Park know how to run a festival. Players return year after year, and the results speak for themselves. The 2027 edition is already something to look forward to.

Learn more about the upcoming events at OlyBetEvents.com.

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