Noah Rogers Wins the €555 Championship as Juha Helppi Claims an Emotional DeepStack Victory at Kings of Tallinn

Wednesday at the 2026 Kings of Tallinn Autumn Edition delivered four champions across the Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park, setting up a big weekend finale.

Norway’s Noah Rogers won their second title of the festival in a huge victory, winning the three-day €555 Championship for €30,005; a two-time WSOP bracelet winner and 2018 Kings of Tallinn Main Event champion Juha Helppi showed a side of himself the table had never seen, and the €1,100 Main Event finally got underway, drawing 172 entries across two opening flights.

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Norway’s Noah Rogers Wins the €555 NLH Championship for a Second 2026 Kings of Tallinn Autumn Edition Title

Norway’s Noah Rogers entered Wednesday’s €555 NLH Championship Final Day in seventh place from 16 remaining, with 640,000 chips and a short stack, heading into what would become a remarkable turnaround. By the end of the day, Rogers had shipped the event for €30,005, taking his second Kings of Tallinn Autumn Edition title after winning the €200 NLH Turbo on October 11 for €1,868.

The €555 NLH Championship was the festival’s biggest side event thus far, drawing 319 entries and building a €148,335 prize pool. Sweden’s Dennis Zetterman led the 16 survivors into the final day but couldn’t hold on, finishing third for €14,830. Estonia’s Alger Pissarev ran deep to finish as the runner-up for €20,290.

€555 buy-in | 319 entries | €148,335 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	NoahRogers	Norway	€30,005
2	Alger Pissarev	Estonia	€20,290
3	Dennis Zetterman	Sweden	€14,830
4	Marek Zigel	Lithuania	€11,130
5	Ben Devers	Belgium	€7,930
6	Jawad Habib	Sweden	€5,770
7	Edgars Hauks	Latvia	€4,530
8	Siim Taliaru	Estonia	€3,760
9	Mario Antonio Colavita	Italy	€3,140
10	Adrian Jimenez Ruano	Spain	€2,680
11	Taago Tamm	Estonia	€2,680
12	Andreas Johansson	Sweden	€2,350
13	Gisle Olsen	Denmark	€2,350
14	Alf Önnestam	Sweden	€2,090
15	Joakim Bakke	Norway	€2,090
16	Samuel Adnoy	Norway	€1,870
17	Mantas Urbonas	Lithuania	€1,870
18	Ville-Matti Keränen	Finland	€1,660
19	Justinas Adomauskas	Lithuania	€1,660
20	Martin Zobel	Germany	€1,660
21	Pal Koppegodt	Norway	€1,490
22	Manu Grönlund	Finland	€1,490
23	Rytis Strigunas	Lithuania	€1,490
24	Jonas Lapinskas	Lithuania	€1,370
25	Urmo Velvelt	Estonia	€1,370
26	Amin Asikainen	Finland	€1,370
27	Liutauras Armanavicius	Lithuania	€1,370
28	Alberto Martinez Gonzalez	Spain	€1,250
29	Athanasios Kostouros	Greece	€1,250
30	Marton Teglas	Hungary	€1,250
31	Jari Mähönen	Finland	€1,250
32	Atso Lindell	Finland	€1,130
33	Risto Hentunen	Finland	€1,130
34	Benjamin Gros	France	€1,130
35	Joona Nyholm	Finland	€1,130
36	Algina Juknaite	Lithuania	€1,130
37	Rohan Oberoi	Sweden	€1,130
38	Josep Mercade	Spain	€1,130
39	Jimmy Dewerdt	France	€1,130

Finland’s Juha Helppi Emotionally Wins the €350 NLH DeepStack on Arrival

Finland’s Juha Helppi has won everything in this game with more than $11 million in live tournament earnings tracked at The Hendon Mob. The 2018 Kings of Tallinn Main Event champion, two-time WSOP bracelet winner ($10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship in 2019 and the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship in 2020), and one of the most accomplished tournament players the Nordic region has ever produced, Helppi had barely arrived at the festival when he spotted the €350 NLH DeepStack and jumped straight in. He ran it down to the final, and when it was over, he had his second Kings of Tallinn title and another story to go with it.

What made the win memorable was what happened at the end. Helppi, known for projecting cool composure at the table over a career spanning multiple decades, let such heartfelt emotion out when he secured the victory. Players and onlookers who have watched him compete for years said they had never seen him react that way. The result speaks for itself: 134 entries, a €38,632 prize pool, and €9,872 for the winner.

Finland’s Jukka Ylitalo finished runner-up with €6,650, and Spain’s Alfonso Lopez Delgado took third with €4,620.

€350 buy-in | 134 entries | €38,632 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Juha Helppi	Finland	€9,872
2	Jukka Ylitalo	Finland	€6,650
3	Alfonso Lopez Delgado	Spain	€4,620
4	Rohan Oberoi	Sweden	€3,360
5	Indre Martoviciute-Kasten	Lithuania	€2,590
6	Timo Tamminen	Finland	€2,030
7	Antoine Vranken	Netherlands	€1,660
8	Arkadiusz Liszewski	Poland	€1,390
9	Torben Beltz	Germany	€1,180
10	Alf Önnestam	Sweden	€1,000
11	Peter Bergman	Sweden	€1,000
12	Jari Mähönen	Finland	€870
13	Dominykas Buda	Lithuania	€870
14	Algina Juknaite	Lithuania	€770
15	Audrius Michelkevicius	Lithuania	€770

Lithuania’s Andrius Baublys Wins the €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty

Lithuania’s Andrius Baublys entered Wednesday’s Day 2 of the €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty as the chip leader with six players remaining, and he turned that advantage into a wire-to-wire victory. The mystery bounty envelopes came out with the first elimination of the day, and Baublys walked away with not only the title but also a significant chunk of the bounty pool on top of his base prize.

The event drew 47 entries and generated €20,210 in base prize pool money, plus €23,500 in mystery bounties, for a total prize pool of €43,710. Estonia’s Mark Metsla finished runner-up, taking €15,600 in total from his base prize and bounty winnings. Two-time WSOP Circuit Tallinn champion Roope Tarmi finished third for €3,400, while Sweden’s 2016 Kings of Tallinn Main Event champion Johan Creutz finished fourth for €2,450.

€1,100 buy-in | 47 entries | €43,710 prize pool (includes €23,500 in mystery bounties)

Place	Player	Country	Prize	Bounties	Total
1	Andrius Baublys	Lithuania	€7,010	€12,500	€19,510
2	Mark Metsla	Estonia	€4,600	€11,000	€15,600
3	Roope Tarmi	Finland	€3,400	€0	€3,400
4	Johan Creutz	Sweden	€2,450	€0	€2,450
5	Vilius Zabarauskas	Lithuania	€1,600	€0	€1,600
6	Mantas Burba	Lithuania	€1,150	€0	€1,150

Lithuania’s Albertas Voisnarovic Wins the €350 PLO4/PLO5 Double Board Bomb Pot

Lithuania’s Albertas Voisnarovic topped an 89-entry field in the €350 PLO4/PLO5 Double Board Bomb Pot to claim the title and €7,529 from the €25,659 prize pool. Israel’s Shaul Weinstein finished as runner-up for €4,900, with Estonian poker legend Henri Käsper taking third for €3,390.

€350 buy-in | 89 entries | €25,659 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Albertas Voisnarovic	Lithuania	€7,529
2	Shaul Weinstein	Israel	€4,900
3	Henri Käsper	Estonia	€3,390
4	Staffan Fagelberg	Finland	€2,460
5	Kimmo Kurko	Finland	€1,820
6	Henri Tanskanen	Finland	€1,380
7	Kaspars Renga	Latvia	€1,130
8	Teemu Salminen	Finland	€930
9	Janne Risberg	Sweden	€780
10	Lena Björn	Sweden	€670
11	Erik Põlluveer	Estonia	€670

€1,100 Main Event Opens with 172 Entries Across Two Flights

The €1,100 Main Event with a €500,000 guarantee got underway on Wednesday with two opening flights, drawing 172 combined entries and sending 57 players through to Day 2. Day 1a at the Hilton Tallinn Park attracted 124 entries, with 38 surviving to bag chips. Day 1b drew another 48 entries, with 19 advancing.

Finland’s Mikael Haapaniemi, a well-known cash game and tournament player recently tagged by some in the community with the nickname Lucky Ducky, leads all Day 1a survivors with 256,000 chips. Sweden’s 2016 Kings of Tallinn Main Event champion Johan Creutz tops the Day 1b counts with 174,000 chips, making his run in the Mystery Bounty final earlier in the day all the more impressive before coming back to bag a stack in the Main.

Two more opening flights fire on Thursday, with late entry remaining available through the first four 60-minute blind levels of Saturday’s Day 2. There is still plenty of time to get in.

Day 1a Chip Counts

€1,100 buy-in | Day 1a: 124 entries | 38 survivors advancing

Position	Player	Country	Chips	BBs
1	Mikael Haapaniemi	Finland	256,000	213
2	Tiiu Naar	Estonia	242,800	202
3	Sander Leigri	Estonia	230,500	192
4	Stanislav Smeljov	Estonia	202,900	169
5	Siim Suviste	Estonia	189,900	158
6	David Marfil	Spain	160,000	133
7	Feliciano	Lithuania	138,400	115
8	Adam Szalay	Hungary	126,600	106
9	Kestutis Jungevicius	Lithuania	121,700	101
10	Linas Bulksas	Lithuania	115,700	96
11	Sergi Kapanadze	Georgia	108,900	91
12	Andrei Rozinko	Estonia	108,900	91
13	Ali Boulacel	France	103,800	87
14	Jon Martinez De Antonana Garaial	Spain	103,000	86
15	Liutauras Armanavicius	Lithuania	98,100	82
16	Tarvi Apsolon	Estonia	95,900	80
17	Krisjanis Lauks	Latvia	93,200	78
18	Evgeny Vyal	Estonia	84,800	71
19	Juho Nieminen	Finland	82,700	69
20	Yevhen Pavlenko	Ukraine	79,300	66
21	Alex Gholiha	Sweden	77,900	65
22	Alexey Cherkasov	Estonia	77,000	64
23	Teemu Sattanen	Finland	75,900	63
24	Esko Virri	Finland	74,000	62
25	Audrius Navickas	Lithuania	69,600	58
26	Veiko Vares	Estonia	66,400	55
27	Richard Heveli	Hungary	64,300	54
28	Dmitri Dudakov	Estonia	64,000	53
29	Andrei-Iustin Birgaoanu	Romania	49,700	41
30	Arsenii Hvozdetskyi	Ukraine	49,100	41
31	Maksim Petrov	Estonia	49,000	41
32	Sigitas Raila	Lithuania	44,200	37
33	Tommy Eriksson	Sweden	43,600	36
34	Eedi Kirves	Estonia	41,000	34
35	Artjoms Skvarkovskis	Latvia	40,700	34
36	Heiki Raidlepp	Estonia	35,500	30
37	Tomas Gudaitis	Lithuania	29,000	24
38	Alexander Rhys-Davies	Ireland	19,700	16

Day 1b Chip Counts

€1,100 buy-in | Day 1b: 48 entries | 19 survivors advancing

Position	Player	Country	Chips	BBs
1	Johan Creutz	Sweden	174,000	145
2	Rasmus Sepping	Estonia	168,000	140
3	Samuel Ju	Estonia	125,400	105
4	Kim Pihl	Finland	115,100	96
5	Jesus Martinez Ucero	Spain	112,000	93
6	Tomas Kovalenka	Lithuania	105,800	88
7	Roope Tarmi	Finland	103,900	87
8	Lluis Murcia Grano	Spain	93,000	78
9	Mantas Burba	Lithuania	75,000	63
10	John Anckar	Finland	67,900	57
11	James Noonan	Ireland	63,500	53
12	Julian Selinger	Germany	55,000	46
13	Rohan Oberoi	Sweden	47,700	40
14	Alf Hjärtberg	Sweden	45,100	38
15	Xavier Lyu	United States	44,200	37
16	Oleh Anhelovskyi	Ukraine	38,000	32
17	Arti Mustkivi	Estonia	19,200	16
18	Gerardas Luksenas	Lithuania	18,100	15
19	Mati Pirn	Estonia	18,000	15

Thursday, October 15 Schedule

Thursday is one of the busiest days of the festival. The day opens at noon with two simultaneous events: the €1,100 Main Event Flight 1C and an €80 Last Chance Satellite guaranteeing five Main Event seats. At 13:00, the €350 PLO4/PLO5 DeepStack Mystery Bounty returns for its final day alongside the €555 8-Game.

The €350 NLH DeepStack Progressive Bounty kicks off at 14:00, followed by the €200 PL Sviten/PLO5 at 17:00 for anyone looking for something different. The evening session brings the final Main Event opening flight of the day at 19:00, the €350 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 Progressive Bounty at 19:30, and an €150 satellite to the €3,000 NLH at 20:00. Night owls have the €555 NLH at 21:00 and the €200 NLH Turbo at 22:30.

Two more Main Event opening flights remain after Thursday, and late entry is still available through the first four 60-minute blind levels of Saturday’s Day 2.

Time	Event
12:00	€1,100 Main Event Flight 1C (€500,000 GTD)
12:00	€80 Last Chance Satellite to the Main Event (5 seats GTD)
13:00	€350 PLO4/PLO5 DeepStack Mystery Bounty Final Day
13:00	€555 8-Game
14:00	€350 NLH DeepStack Progressive Bounty (€100 PKO)
17:00	€200 PL Sviten / PLO5
19:00	€1,100 Main Event Flight 1D (€500,000 GTD)
19:30	€350 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 Progressive Bounty (€100 PKO)
20:00	€150 Satellite to €3,000 NLH (3 seats GTD)
21:00	€555 NLH
22:30	€200 NLH Turbo

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