The 2026 WSOP Circuit Tallinn kicks off Thursday July 23 at Olympic Park Casino inside the Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel, and for the fourth consecutive year, OlyBet Poker is bringing one of Northern Europe’s biggest poker festivals to the Estonian capital, with the festival boasting 11 days of action until August 2. The schedule boasts an impressive 75 events on the schedule, with a dozen of them certified WSOP Circuit Ring events that boast $5,000 Package to WSOP Bahamas, and a €1,500 Main Event carrying a €1,000,000 guarantee at the center of it all.
Thursday is a warm-up day. Satellites fire throughout the afternoon and evening, and the opening flight of the Ring Event #1: €350 Mini Main Event gets the ring event count started. Day 2 of the Mini Main runs Sunday, with a winner crowned and the first ring of the 2026 WSOP Circuit Tallinn awarded on Monday, July 27. Last year, Simon Hesserud Persson kicked off the WSOP Circuit Tallinn in style by winning the inaugural ring for €45,700.
All four opening flights play down to 15% of the field in the €350 Mini Main Event and the other ring events. All ring events payout 15% of the field, and players can play multiple flights in events that boast them such as the Mini Main Event, with the largest stack moving to Day 2 if bagging multiple times.
What Is on the Schedule This Weekend
The Mini Main Event is the headliner but it is not the only action on the opening weekend. Ring Event #2: €555 PLO4/5, runs across the weekend alongside the Mini Main and gives Omaha players their shot early in the series. It is one of the more distinctive events on the European circuit calendar and fits the OlyBet philosophy of building schedules with genuine variety rather than stacking NLHE on NLHE.
Ring Event #3: €555 No-Limit Hold’em, also gets underway this weekend and rounds out the opening ring event trio. Between the three events, the satellites running alongside them, the plenty of side events awarding trophies and the 24-hour cash games that stay live throughout the entire series, there is no shortage of action from the moment the doors open Thursday afternoon.
A note on registration: all players must use the WSOP LIVE app to register for any tournament or satellite at this series. If you have not yet downloaded and verified your account, do that before you show up. It takes a few minutes and saves the headache of doing it in the queue when the clock is running.
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The Venue and What OlyBet Has Built Here
The combination of Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel has become one of the most reliable setups on the European circuit calendar. OlyBet Tournament Director Teresa Nousainen and WSOP Circuit Tournament Director Andy Tillman run the operation, and the standard here is consistently higher than what you find at many larger European poker stops. Deep structures, organized registration, a venue that is genuinely pleasant to spend a week in, and a surrounding city that rewards the time you put into the trip.
Tallinn in late July is also about as good as it gets in terms of a poker backdrop. The white nights keep the city lit past midnight, the terraces around Old Town fill up between sessions, and the Birgitta Festival, one of Europe’s most atmospheric classical music events, opens at the ruins of Pirita Convent on August 1, right as the series hits its final stretch. If you are looking for a reason to build a full week around the trip rather than just flying in for a specific event, this is the year the calendar gives you one.
The Bigger Picture: What This Series Means
Every ring winner at the 2026 WSOP Circuit Tallinn receives a $5,000 package for the WSOP Circuit Championship at WSOP Paradise 2026, including event entry and six nights in the Bahamas. That means the first ring of the series, coming out of the Mini Main Event this weekend, is not just a €350 buy-in tournament. It is a route to the Bahamas for whoever runs best over the next three days.
Jenny Westerlund, who won the €1,500 Main Event here last year, returns to defend. The Main Event itself does not start until July 28, with five starting flights running through the opening weekend of August and a winner crowned on the final day of the festival, August 2. But the stage gets set this weekend, and the early ring events tell you a lot about the field that has made the trip to Tallinn and what kind of tournament it is going to be.
poker.pro and OlyBetEvents.com will have full coverage throughout the series, including chip counts, eliminations, and results as they happen. Cards are in the air Thursday afternoon. Let’s go.
2026 WSOP Circuit Tallinn Schedule
Check out the full schedule below and head to OlyBet Events to read more about the schedule, players guide, and more.
- Article original published at poker.pro.
- Photos courtesy of Elena Kask / OlyBet Poker.
