WSOP Circuit Tallinn Kicks Off in Style

The 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn, hosted at OlyBet’s flagship home of Olympic Park Casino and the adjoining Hilton Tallinn Parks, boasts a massive schedule of 52 events, including 12 events where players can earn a WSOP Circuit Ring. Friday’s action kicked off on the casino floor, and the room was packed with action, with 274 entries adding €81,377 to the prize pool on Day 1a of Event #1: €350 Mini Main Event.

However, before that, a freebuy satellite took place which boasted a seven-seat guarantee to the Mini Main Event. Due to both the large field and the rebuys and add-ons, a whopping 18 seats were awarded with 19th place also earning more than half a seat in cash. Three women were among the players earning a seat into the Mini Main Event, including American Summer Westerbur, who traveled to Estonia specifically for the festival from her travels in Asia after experiencing an amazing vibe during last year’s WSOP Circuit Tallinn.

Read on to learn more about what happened on the opening day, with bigger action kicking off over the weekend.

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Keränen and Scheel Emerge as Chip Millionaires From €350 Mini Main Day 1a

The 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn was off to an amazing start, with the casino floor packed before the action moved upstairs in the Hilton Tallinn Park convention rooms on Saturday. Day 1a of Event #1: €350 Mini Main Event attracted a banner field of 274 entries to create a €81,377 prize pool, with 41 players bagging chips into Sunday’s Day 2 already in the money in this three-day affair.

Finland’s Ville-Matti Keränen (1,367,000) and Corne Scheel (1,106,000) emerged as chip millionaires as they parlayed their 50,000 opening stack into seven-figure stacks to lead the way with two-time WSOP Circuit Tallinn champion Roope Tarmi from Finland in third with 709,000.

Saturday will feature both Day 1b at noon with a 30 minute clock, followed by the final opening flight in Day 1c with a faster 20-minute clock at 7 p.m. The action for both flights concludes after the field is trimmed down to just 15 percent.

Stay hydrated and prepare for a long day, as yesterday took approximately 12 hours from start to finish. Our team at poker.pro will be lightly covering all of the events today, but will be on the floor until players bag on Day 1b.

Place	Player	Country	Chips
1	Ville-Matti Keränen	Finland	1,367,000
2	Corne Scheel	Netherlands	1,106,000
3	Roope Tarmi	Finland	709,000
4	Vytautas Riskevicius	Lithuania	655,000
5	Roy Van Der Reijnst	Netherlands	596,000
6	Frederico Alves Dos Santos	Brazil	595,000
7	Edvinas Tarasevicius	Lithuania	569,000
8	Tomasz Kardas	Poland	538,000
9	Gabriel Wolszczak	Poland	523,000
10	Rauno Kiviloo	Estonia	522,000
11	Svetlana Aubakirova	Kazakhstan	487,000
12	Toni Vuolle	Finland	438,000
13	Johan Alen	Finland	409,000
14	Nico Kumpulainen	Finland	409,000
15	Ville-Tappio Mesiranta	Finland	380,000
16	Vidar Assersen	Norway	322,000
17	Oleksandr Tarashevskyi	Ukraine	310,000
18	Riku Oksanen	Finland	305,000
19	Nicolai Austad	Norway	270,000
20	Pavel Solodovnikov	Estonia	244,000
21	Adrian Jimenez Ruano	Spain	235,000
22	Andreas Brendholdt	Denmark	232,000
23	Toni Ravnak	Serbia	231,000
24	Mikko Ylämäki	Finland	227,000
25	Siim Kabel	Estonia	221,000
26	Jarmo Salonen	Finland	214,000
27	Janis Zablovskis	Latvia	182,000
28	Maksim Jankovski	Russia	161,000
29	Egidijus Matonis	Lithuania	153,000
30	Franco Spichtig	Switzerland	129,000
31	Petter Richardsen	Norway	126,000
32	Martin Mänd	Estonia	116,000
33	Keio Vardi	Estonia	110,000
34	Dylan Snyder	England	105,000
35	Matej Hojka	Czech Republic	92,000
36	Soile Lerviks	Finland	91,000
37	Alejandro Val	Spain	87,000
38	Ruth Guper	Israel	78,000
39	Ralf Mikk	Estonia	75,000
40	Ricards Zelneronoks	Latvia	67,000
41	Andrius Mazeika	Lithuania	35,000

2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn Day 2 Schedule (Saturday, July 26)

Saturday’s schedule boasts the final two opening flights on the €350 Mini Main Event at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. However, there is some buzz around another event starting early on Saturday at Noon in the €350 Open-face Chinese Pineapple with several players witnessed practicing their skills, including Scott “Pokerbrahs” Kenyon, Eva “Chic” Jirestrom, Lena Bjorn, and Siim Suviste.

A trophy will also be on the line in the one-day €200 NLH Progressive Bounty at 3 p.m., while the day concludes at least for tournaments with two €80 satellites to two different events with a €555 buy-in. Of course, cash games will be running nonstop at various stakes and games on what promises to be an epic day at Olympic Park Casino and Hilton Tallinn Park.