Greece’s Christos Chalkiotis Wins the 2026 Kings of Tallinn Autumn €250 Mini-Main Event

Sunday at the 2026 Kings of Tallinn Autumn Edition, powered by OlyBet Poker, delivered the biggest moment of the opening weekend at Olympic Park Casino and the adjoining Hilton Tallinn Park. Greece’s Emmanouil Chalkiotis, the unlikely hero of a four-man OlyBet Team Challenge squad, outlasted a 555-entry field to win the €250 NLH Kings of Tallinn Mini-Main Event for €19,875.

Finland’s Ville-Matti Keränen claimed the €350 PL Sviten Championship for €4,029, Norway’s Noah Rogers took the €200 NLH Turbo for €1,868, and Finland’s Janne Riku Raevaara won the €250 PL Razz Progressive Bounty. The €350 Kings of Tallinn Cup played two opening flights to bag 53 survivors, led by Spain’s Victor Prior Fernandez Amat at 283,000, with Monday’s Final Day still to come.

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Chalkiotis Wins the Kings of Tallinn €250 Mini-Main Event

Greece’s Emmanouil Chalkiotis has had one of the more remarkable opening weekends in Kings of Tallinn history. He arrived at the OlyBet Team Challenge without a team, but Teresa Nousiainen and the OlyBet Poker team helped him find one in 2018 Kings of Tallinn champion Juha Helppi, whom they called “The Greek is +EV” team.

By Sunday evening, Chalkiotis led the team, winning the €250 NLH Kings of Tallinn Mini-Main Event for €19,875 after a heads-up deal with Estonia’s Simo Saarniit, leaving €3,650 on the table. Chalkiotis is a well-traveled player with nearly $700,000 in live tournament earnings and a strong record across European and Asian tours, according to The Hendon Mob.

He won the 2025 Mystery Siege of Malta, was runner-up at the Novibet Poker Championship Main Event in January 2026, and posted five top-three finishes in a single week at the APT Jeju Classic earlier this year. His three teammates, Jyri Merivirta, Juha Helppi, and Mikael Haapaniemi, are each capable of winning any tournament at any time and were thrilled with his run.

The Mini-Main drew 555 entries and built a €113,553 prize pool with 71 places paid. Estonia’s Simo Saarniit was the runner-up for €16,618, and Estonia’s Ranel Käsi finished third for €10,160. Denmark’s Casper Stelzner Jensen was fourth for €7,480.

€250 buy-in | 555 entries | €113,553 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Emmanouil Chalkiotis	Greece	€19,875*
2	Simo Saarniit	Estonia	€16,618*
3	Ranel Käsi	Estonia	€10,160
4	Casper Jensen	Denmark	€7,480
5	Oskar Ojaveer	Estonia	€5,480
6	Gerardas Luksenas	Lithuania	€4,140
7	Enea Subashi	Greece	€3,040
8	Marko Paasikoski	Finland	€2,400
9	Atso Lindell	Finland	€1,940
10	Aivar Toomla	Estonia	€1,660
11	Reijo Manninen	Finland	€1,660
12	Giuliano Boellis	Italy	€1,460
13	Carl Lockmer	Finland	€1,460
14	Vilius Zabarauskas	Lithuania	€1,280
15	Keren Kalif	Israel	€1,280
16	Arkadiusz Liszewski	Poland	€1,120
17	Lukasz Zalewski	Poland	€1,120
18	Alf Sebastian Hjärtberg	Sweden	€980
19	Amanda Sidark	Sweden	€980
20	Ludwig Hedström	Sweden	€980
21	Henri Antikainen	Finland	€840
22	Pasi Mikkonen	Finland	€840
23	Tomas Bulksas	Lithuania	€840
24	Jerry Villa	Finland	€740
25	Risto Hentunen	Finland	€740
26	Janek Pähkel	Estonia	€740
27	Siim Kabel	Estonia	€740
28	Antero Johannes Sillanpää	Finland	€660
29	Jari Juhani Lahtinen	Finland	€660
30	Lluis Murcia Grano	Spain	€660
31	Valerij Dobrinskij	Lithuania	€660
32	Peter Bergman	Sweden	€580
33	Andrejs Nozdrins	Estonia	€580
34	Igor Pihela	Estonia	€580
35	Jari Mähönen	Finland	€580
36	Pjotr Krasnopjorov	Estonia	€580
37	Aleksi Leppänen	Finland	€580
38	Magnus Pukk	Estonia	€580
39	Linas Bulksas	Lithuania	€580
40	Tom Backman	Finland	€520
41	Pal Koppegodt	Norway	€520
42	Erikas Goriacevskis	Lithuania	€520
43	Nico Kumpulainen	Finland	€520
44	Jonas Lapinskas	Lithuania	€520
45	Kim-Erik Pihl	Finland	€520
46	Janne Risberg	Sweden	€520
47	Egidijus Matonis	Lithuania	€520
48	Conny Eriksson	Finland	€520
49	Sergi Kapanadze	Georgia	€520
50	Michal Goral	Poland	€520
51	Rudolfs Sadrins	Latvia	€520
52	Vytautas Kacerauskas	Lithuania	€520
53	Gaits Lapsa	Latvia	€520
54	Viacheslav Martynenko	Norway	€520
55	Mikhail Rusanov	Russia	€520
56	Vidar Assersen	Norway	€460
57	Johan Alen	Finland	€460
58	Ville Niveri	Finland	€460
59	Rohan Oberoi	Sweden	€460
60	Rasmus Lundström	Finland	€460
61	Ville-Matti Keränen	Finland	€460
62	Ulf Wallin	Sweden	€460
63	Mantas Burba	Lithuania	€460
64	Nils Kollandsrud	Norway	€460
65	Tarjei Forus	Norway	€460
66	Yuliia Taran	Ukraine	€460
67	Juha Jalmari Leino	Finland	€460
68	Robert Rudolf Rohr	Germany	€460
69	Jimmy Philippe Dewerdt	France	€460
70	Mäido Kuusik	Estonia	€460
71	Aake Stefan Fröling	Sweden	€460

* Heads-up deal; €3,650 played out for the title.

Keränen Wins the €350 PL Sviten Championship

Finland’s Ville-Matti Keränen is no stranger to the Kings of Tallinn festival floor, and he added another chapter to that story on Sunday, winning Event #9, the €350 PL Sviten Championship, for €4,029. Keränen made the money in the €250 Mini-Main at the same festival, cashing for €460 just hours earlier, but he delivered the result in Sviten.

He won The Festival Weekend Tallinn Main Event in July 2026, a €555 buy-in event that paid €26,160, which The Hendon Mob lists as his fifth-biggest live cash. His fourth-place finish in the €1,100 Kings of Tallinn Main Event in 2023, which paid €34,900, remains his biggest payday to date. The €350 PL Sviten attracted 39 entries and built an €11,244 prize pool with five places paid.

Norway’s Espen Hagen was the runner-up for €2,925, and Finland’s Riku Matias Koivurinne took third for €2,080.

€350 buy-in | 39 entries | €11,244 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Ville-Matti Keränen	Finland	€4,029
2	Espen Hagen	Norway	€2,925
3	Riku Matias Koivurinne	Finland	€2,080
4	Juha Jalmari Leino	Finland	€1,400
5	Raimonds Svans	Latvia	€810

Raevaara Wins the €250 PL Razz Progressive Bounty

Finland’s Janne Raevaara took down Event #13, the €250 PL Razz Progressive Bounty, for €649 in prize money plus bounties. The mixed-game event drew 19 entries and built a €1,987 prize pool and €1,900 in bounties, for a combined total of €3,887.

Italy’s Maurizio Licata was the runner-up, taking €649 in prize money plus bounties, but narrowly missed out on the trohpy and the big bounty at the end. Meanwhile, Norway’s Samuel Adnoy finished third with €440, and Lithuania’s Albertas Voisnarovic took fourth with €250.

€250 buy-in | 19 entries | €1,987 prize pool | €1,900 in bounties

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Janne Raevaara	Finland	€649
2	Maurizio Licata	Italy	€649
3	Samuel Adnoy	Norway	€440
4	Albertas Voisnarovic	Lithuania	€250

Bounty amounts not included in prize column.

Rogers Wins the €200 NLH Turbo

Norway’s Noah Rogers won Event #15, the €200 NLH Turbo, for €1,868. The 8-handed event drew 32 entries and built a €5,208 prize pool.

Sweden’s Reza Jafaripour finished runner-up with €1,300, and Estonia’s Mark Metsla finished third with €930.

€200 buy-in | 32 entries | €5,208 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Noah Rogers	Norway	€1,868
2	Reza Jafaripour	Sweden	€1,300
3	Mark Metsla	Estonia	€930
4	Kaspars Kalnozols	Latvia	€640
5	Erika Wasenius	Finland	€470

Fernandez Amat Leads 53 Kings of Tallinn Cup Survivors Into Monday

The €350 NLH Kings of Tallinn Cup ran two opening flights on Sunday and sent 53 players through to Monday’s Final Day, led by Spain’s Victor Prior Fernandez Amat at 283,000.

Afghanistan’s Mohammad Majidi is second at 250,500, and Ireland’s Alexander Mark Davies is third at 234,000. The two flights drew a combined 154 entries and built a €44,398 prize pool, with late registration still open for the first two 30-minute blind levels of the day. The Final Day resumes at noon on Monday at the Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel.

€350 buy-in | 154 entries | €44,398 prize pool | 53 survivors

Position	Player	Country	Chips
1	Victor Prior Fernandez Amat	Spain	283,000
2	Mohammad Majidi	Afghanistan	250,500
3	Alexander Davies	Ireland	234,000
4	Aliasghar Estiri	Sweden	228,000
5	Paulius Turcinskas	Lithuania	176,500
6	Andreas Backlund	Finland	146,000
7	Mats Forss	Sweden	144,000
8	Kestutis Jungevicius	Lithuania	143,500
9	Alens Jansons	Latvia	139,000
10	Athanasios Kostouros	Greece	138,500
11	Nicklas Magyar	Sweden	130,000
12	Viacheslav Martynenko	Norway	121,000
13	Kristaps Kalva	Latvia	113,000
14	Rasmus Lundström	Finland	111,500
15	Yaniv Peretz	Israel	109,000
16	Tomas Kovalenka	Lithuania	105,500
17	Madis Tarum	Estonia	105,000
18	Sigitas Raila	Lithuania	104,000
19	Timo Ruuska	Finland	93,500
20	Jorgen Andersen	Denmark	90,500
21	Alexey Kolbaskin	Estonia	90,000
22	Michal Goral	Poland	88,000
23	Marton Teglas	Hungary	82,500
24	Alfonso Lopez Delgado	Spain	79,500
25	Piotr Stanislaw Swietek	Poland	75,000
26	Alger Pissarev	Estonia	64,500
27	Edgars Hauks	Latvia	63,500
28	Danil Dokukin	Estonia	61,500
29	Arsenii Hvozdetskyi	Ukraine	61,000
30	Rohan Oberoi	Sweden	61,000
31	Stanislav Smeljov	Estonia	58,500
32	Mantas Burba	Lithuania	56,000
33	Joona Nyholm	Finland	54,000
34	Max Jafaripour	Sweden	48,500
35	Mark Metsla	Estonia	48,000
36	Baptiste Caim	France	46,500
37	Josha Matthewman	United Kingdom	46,000
38	Miro Sankala	Finland	45,500
39	Feras Abid	Finland	45,000
40	Shaul Weinstein	Israel	45,000
41	Andrius Mazeika	Lithuania	43,000
42	Kristo Tartu	Estonia	43,000
43	Nicklas Dehli	Denmark	40,000
44	Nuutti Oinas	Finland	38,500
45	Samuel Adnoy	Norway	37,000
46	Ben Devers	Belgium	37,000
47	Erikas Goriacevskis	Lithuania	36,500
48	Tarjei Forus	Norway	35,500
49	Simon Hesserud Persson	Sweden	33,000
50	Semi Rantanen	Finland	30,500
51	Martin Hrivnak	Slovakia	26,500
52	Feliciano	Lithuania	20,000
53	Pal Koppegodt	Norway	12,500

Monday at Kings of Tallinn Autumn 2026

Monday is one of the festival’s busiest days. The Kings of Tallinn Cup Final Day headlines at noon, with Spain’s Victor Prior Fernandez Amat leading 53 survivors into what looks like a wide-open finish.

The €1,100 PLO4/PLO5 Championship also wraps its Final Day at 13:00, meaning two champions will be crowned before the afternoon is out. The €555 NLH Kings of Tallinn Championship fires its second flight at 12:30, adding more players to a field that began Sunday evening.

New events on Monday include the €555 Open-Face Chinese Pineapple at 14:00, the €250 NLH with €100 Traditional Bounties at 15:00, the €200 NLH Queens, Women Only at 16:00, and the €350 PLO4/PLO5 Double Board Bomb Pot at 17:00. A third Championship flight runs at 19:30, and satellites to the €1,100 DeepStack Mystery Bounty and €1,100 Main Event fire late into the night.

Time	Event
12:00	Event #11: €350 NLH Kings of Tallinn Cup Final Day
12:30	Event #14: €555 NLH Kings of Tallinn Championship Flight 1B
13:00	Event #10: €1,100 PLO4/PLO5 Championship Final Day
14:00	Event #18: €555 Open-Face Chinese Pineapple (3-handed)
15:00	Event #19: €250 NLH with €100 Traditional Bounties
16:00	Event #20: €200 NLH Queens, Women Only
17:00	Event #21: €350 PLO4/PLO5 Double Board Bomb Pot (6-handed)
19:30	Event #14: €555 NLH Kings of Tallinn Championship Flight 1C
20:00	Event #22: €80 NLH Satellite to €1,100 DeepStack Mystery Bounty, 5 Seats GTD
21:00	Event #23: €250 High Only Mix (NLH/PLO4/PLO5/PL Sviten, 6-handed)
22:30	Event #24: €150 Mega-Satellite to €1,100 Main Event, 10 Seats GTD

• Photos and information courtesy of OlyBet Poker / Mairo Toom.
• Article originally produced at poker.pro.