Tapio Vihakas Leads Final Table of the Tallinn Summer Showdown Main Event

Jason Glatzer

Jul 28, 2019 2 min read

Day 3 action
Final Table Seat Draw
Final Table Payouts

The penultimate day of the Tallinn Summer Showdown �1,100 Main Event was fast and furious with the 23 returning players battling down to a final table of just eight players in a little more than three hours.

There is a massive gap between the top of the field and the rest. Finland's Tapio Vihakas enters Sunday's final table with a chip leading stack of 1,659,000. He will be closely followed by countrymates Mathias Siljander with 1,590,000 and Jussi Mattila with 1,581,000.

The rest of the final eight don't even have one-quarter of the chips of any player in this Finnish trio with Estonia's Toomas Polli (342,000), Morocco's Ahmed Ibrahimi (285,000), Finland's Kim Lindstrom (178,000), Finland's Aki Pyysing (148,000), and Lithuania's Algimantas Jablonskis (83,000) all entering the day with shorter stacks.

Day 3 action

With the money bubble breaking on the last hand of Day 2, all 23 returning players on Day 3 were guaranteed at least a �2,180 payout. Rain Heeringas was eliminated on the first hand of the day with Marius Morel following him to the cashier shortly after before blinds went up.

The first full blind level of the day witnessed many players hit the rail including Timo Ruuska, Jaakko Rajaniemi, Markku Koplimaa, and Ranno Sootla.

Blinds increased again and the eliminations didn't slow down the next hour with Kelly Limonova, Dmitrijs Kornevs, Peter Warfvinge, Andres Loiv, Jari Lahtinen, and Tarmo Tammel all leaving their seats. Loiv was the last remaining player in the field that qualified at Olybet Poker and won a seat to the Battle of Malta �555 Main Event in October for winning a contest hosted by the online poker room.

The blinds increased again and for the only time today there was no player eliminated for the first 30 minutes of the level. Pandemonium then broke loose with three players going out in succession to end the day including Markus Asikainen (11th - �3,800), Igor Pihela Sr. (10th - �3,810), and Santeri Piiroinen (ninth - �4,440).

Final Table Seat Draw

Seat	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds (Level 19)	Big Blinds (Level 20)
1	Algimantas Jablonskis	Lithuania	83,000	8	7
2	Toomas Polli	Estonia	342,000	34	29
3	Ahmed Ibrahimi	Morocco	285,000	29	24
4	Jussi Mattila	Finland	1,581,000	158	132
5	Tapio Vihakas	Finland	1,659,000	166	138
6	Mathias Siljander	Finland	1,590,000	159	133
7	Aki Pyysing	Finland	178,000	18	15
8	Kim Lindstrom	Finland	248,000	25	21

_{*3:53 remaining with blinds at 5,000/10,000 and a big blind ante of 10,000}

The action kicks off tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. local time with 3:53 minutes remaining in Level 19 with blinds at 5,000/10,000 and a big blind ante of 10,000.

We will be covering all the action of the final table on a 30-minute delay and you will also be able to watch with hole cards at PokerNews by clicking on the Live Stream tab that will appear in our coverage when it is live.