Who Will Advance to the Final Table on Day 3 of the Summer Showdown Main Event?
Welcome to Day 3 of the 2019 Tallinn Summer Showdown €1,100 Main Event at the Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Park Hotel.
The field has been trimmed down from 195 entrants to just 23 players to start the day with everyone guaranteed at least a min-cash of €2,180. The plan for today's penultimate day is for players to battle until there are just eight players remaining. Those surviving today will play at the final table on a live stream.
It is mostly Finns and Estonians remaining in the field with ten from the first group and nine from the second. There are also players from Morocco (Ahmed Ibrahimi - 430,000), Latvia (Dmitrijs Kornevs - 184,000), Lithuania (Algimantas Jablonskis - 82,500), and Sweden (Peter Warfvinge - 77,300).
Three Finns are on the top of the leaderboard including Tapio Vihakas (560,000), Jussi Mattila (528,000), and Mathias Siljander (500,000). They are closely followed by the last remaining woman in the tournament in Estonia's Kelly Limonova (450,000), who now calls Barcelona her home.
Both Limonova and Andres Loiv (337,500) qualified to the Main Event via Olybet Poker. The duo are the last two qualifiers standing in a last longer contest hosted by the online poker site. After one of these players drops out of the tournament, the other will be gifted a seat to the 2019 Battle of Malta Main Event valued at €555.
Kings of Tallinn Main Event Day 3 Blind Structure
The day will start off with the last 14:38 remaining of Level 16 with blinds at 2,500/5,000 and a big blind ante of 5,000. After this blind level, blinds will increase every hour with 15-minute breaks provided every two blind levels.
| Level | Small blind | Big Blind | Big Blind Ante |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 2,500 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| 17 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 |
| 18 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 |
| 19 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| 20 | 6,000 | 12,000 | 12,000 |
| 21 | 8,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 |
| 22 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
| 23 | 12,000 | 24,000 | 24,000 |
| 24 | 15,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 |
As was the case the past two days, the PokerNews live reporting team will be back on the floor to provide complete coverage Day 3 and beyond until a winner is declared.
Day 3 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Markus Asikainen | Finland | 279,500 | 56 |
| 1 | 2 | Jussi Mattila | Finland | 528,500 | 106 |
| 1 | 3 | Igor Pihela Sr. | Estonia | 147,000 | 29 |
| 1 | 4 | Ranno Sootla | Estonia | 76,000 | 15 |
| 1 | 5 | Kelly Limonova | Estonia | 450,000 | 90 |
| 1 | 6 | Timo Ruuska | Finland | 135,000 | 27 |
| 1 | 7 | Algimantas Jablonskis | Lithuania | 82,500 | 17 |
| 1 | 8 | Andres Loiv | Estonia | 337,000 | 67 |
| 2 | 1 | Rain Heeringas | Estonia | 112,000 | 22 |
| 2 | 2 | Santeri Piiroinen | Finland | 181,500 | 36 |
| 2 | 3 | Jari Lahtinen | Finland | 313,500 | 63 |
| 2 | 4 | Jaakko Rajaniemi | Finland | 161,500 | 32 |
| 2 | 5 | Ahmed Ibrahimi | Morocco | 430,000 | 86 |
| 2 | 6 | Mathias Siljander | Finland | 500,000 | 100 |
| 2 | 7 | Dmitrijs Kornevs | Latvia | 184,000 | 37 |
| 3 | 1 | Aki Pyysing | Finland | 401,000 | 80 |
| 3 | 2 | Marius Morel | Estonia | 57,500 | 12 |
| 3 | 3 | Tarmo Tammel | Estonia | 171,500 | 34 |
| 3 | 4 | Markku Koplimaa | Estonia | 150,000 | 30 |
| 3 | 5 | Tapio Vihakas | Finland | 560,000 | 112 |
| 3 | 6 | Kim Lindstrom | Finland | 337,500 | 68 |
| 3 | 7 | Toomas Polli | Estonia | 175,000 | 35 |
| 3 | 8 | Peter Warfvinge | Sweden | 77,300 | 15 |
*Photos courtesy of Elena Kask / Tallinn Summer Showdown