It's the last day of what have been a fantastic week: 307 players parted with €1,000 apiece (or the web qualification akin to) take their place on the whole Event in Tallinn, and now only 17 remain. Today we will be able to play to a winner, who will earn €76,750 from their Estonian sojourn, and can become the inaugural Baltic Festival champion. Wowsers.
Let's start with a run through of your runners and riders, listed so as of chips:
James Keys, UK, 442,000Michael Fardan, Denmark , 373,000Thomas Partridge, UK, 350,000Andrius Tapinas, Lithuania, 262,000Johan Nilsson, Sweden, 222,500Antti Karkkainen, Finland, 198,500Claus Bek Nielsen, Denmark, 170,000Imre Leibold, Estonia, 157,000Kenneth Danielsen, Norway, 152,500Einar Olafsson, Iceland, 125,500Patrik Kaltrud, Norway, 123,000Yet San Wong, Netherlands, 111,500Petri Heinanen , Finland, 110,000Priit Plakk Estonia, 88,000Peeter Grunthal, Estonia, 76,000Natasha Ellis, UK, 71,000Matias Knaapinen, Finland, 53,500
Even the least observant goes to note a substantial northern European flavour to that line-up. Anyone from further afield was sent packing, leaving the Brits to scrap it out with the Nordics, and a tight smattering of local players.
On the primary day here, Imre Leibold was mentioned as being the freshest prospect in Estonian poker, and he's lived as much as the billing, cruising to the general day. Meanwhile Andrius Tapinas is widely considered to be the most productive Lithuanian tournament player. He's a television presenter by day (poker shows, obviously) and a poker player by night (PokerStars, obviously, where he's a SuperNova) and he has steadily and stealthily worked his solution to the highest handful too.
We will start today initially of level 17, where the blinds are 2,500-5,000 (500 ante) meaning that there is still a number of play, even though it'll be frantic stuff for the shorter stacks. We'll keep track of all of the major pots and eliminations at the main blog pages, the prizewinners can be at the prizewinners' page, and the entire official chip counts may be at the chip count page, updated in full every two levels.
Ordinarily at major poker tournaments, we are saying something just like the": only place to follow all of the action is true here on PokerStars blog", and there is something slightly metaphorical in regards to the claim. But here within the Baltics, PokerStars blog is quite literally the one place you'll follow the action. So stand by.
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