Eight-time bracelet WSOP bracelet winner, four-time Poker Players Championship winner, and the 2025 WSOP $10,000 Main Event champion Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi arrived to Tallinn on Friday. Fellow poker legend and five-time WSOP bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen has also arrived. Many other big names are set to come for what promises to be one of the most talked about festivals of the year with the No Filter Poker Series, founded by Sweden’s Mounir Tajiou, at OlyBet’s flagship home, Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park from Oct. 17-22.
Friday was a mere warm-up as to what’s to come. It was a packed house throughout the night on the casino floor none-the-less with the Hilton opening up its doors on Saturday.
A total of 127 players entered on Day 1 of the two-day Event #1: €350 NLH Deepstack Opening Event to add €37,402 to the prize pool. These figures will continue to grow with late registration remaining open for the first three blind levels of Saturday’s Day 2 with the action resuming at Noon. Spain’s Jose Miguel Gonzalez Capacete leads the way after parlaying his 50,000 opening-stack into 346,000. Ireland’s James Noonan was the only other player over 300,000 and will start Day 2 in an enviable position with 322,500.
Meanwhile, the €250 Satellite to the €3,500 No Filter Legends of the Game proved to be popular. Instead of awarding the three seats that were guaranteed, a fourth one and a prize for fifth place were awarded with 66 entries getting into mix.
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No Filter Poker Legends of the Game Brings New Excitement to Tallinn
The No Filter Poker Tour launched at Olympic Park Casino in June. Since then, Tajiou has torched his competition left and right with some amazing results including during the 2025 WSOP Main Event where he bowed out in 58th place for $165,000. It was during this event, he developed a friendship with Mizrachi after countless hours at the tables.
The anticipation is building up for the weekend with the two-day €3,500 Legends on the Game kicking off on Saturday at 1 p.m. with an opening ceremony. Tajiou, Mizrachi, and Nguyen are part of the icing on the cake with other legends including two-time WSOP bracelet winner Juha Helppi, and Estonian poker legend Ranno Sootla pre-confirmed.
Players will battle under a 30 minute clock with the first day playing down to the money. The action will be live streamed at approximately 4:30 p.m. at both OlyBet social media channels and the PokerPro World YouTube channel with Andreas “Wiseguy” Hoglund and poker.pro CEO Jason Glatzer commentating the action of the legends.
2025 No Filter Poker Series Day 2 Schedule (Saturday, Oct. 18)
The €3,500 No Filter Legends of the Game will capture most of the spotlight on Day 2 of the No Filter Poker Series at Olympic Park Casino, players will have up for grabs three trophies on Saturday.
The second and final day of the €350 NLH Deepstack Opening Event kicks off a Noon, followed by the €3,500 NLH No Filter Legends of the Game and hour later.
The evening brings the €1,100 PLO4/PLO5 at 6 p.m. followed by the start of the €1,100 No Filter Main Event Day 1a at 7 p.m. The final event at 9:30 p.m. will witness at least five €1,100 Main Event seats awarded in a €80 satellite.
This is on top of the nonstop cash games and social banter at Olympic Park Casino for what promises to be a busy Saturday in Tallinn.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Event #1: €350 NLH Deepstack Opening Event Final Day, Late reg closing 13:50 |
| 13:00 | Event #3: €3,500 NLH No Filter Legends of the Game, Day 1 Plays Down to Money, Max 80 Players! |
| 18:00 | Event #4: €1,100 PLO4/PLO5, Button Round Each, 8-handed, 6-handed when 18 players remaining |
| 19:00 | Event #5: €1,100 NLH No Filter Main Event Flight 1A, €100,000 GTD for Winner, Plays 10 Levels Day 1 |
| 21:30 | Event #6: €80 Satellite to No Filter Main Event, 5 x €1,100 SEATS GTD! |
- Photos courtesy of Elena Kask / OlyBet Poker / No Filter Poker
