A field of 28 remain battling it out for The Festival Weekend Sviten Main Event title.
The event will run into the small hours of the morning, and the blogger needs his beauty sleep in preparation for the final day of The Festival Weekend Sviten Special.
The chip counts will be posted in the recap, which will be up on the website before the cards hit the felt tomorrow at 2 p.m. local time.
The 120 entrants total entrants has condensed to a field of 40 here at The Chesterfield Poker Club in Tallinn. Level 13 has just commenced, and the blinds are at 2,500/5,000.
Due to the popularity of this event, the scheduled €20 No Limit Hold’em tournament has been scrapped.
Festival regular Barrie Dear remains in the field and has a sizeable stack of around 250,000
The floor staff have confirmed that the prize pool stands at €10,651, a slight increase on the guaranteed prize pool of €10,000. The payouts have also been confirmed. See the table below.
| Place | Payout |
|---|---|
| 1 | €2,500 |
| 2 | €1,700 |
| 3 | €1,210 |
| 4 | €920 |
| 5 | €750 |
| 6 | €630 |
| 7 | €520 |
| 8 | €440 |
| 9 | €380 |
| 10 | €340 |
| 11 | €310 |
| 12 | €280 |
| 13 | €250 |
| 14 | €220 |
| 15 | €201 |
The Festival Weekend Sviten Special Main Event could well be the largest Sviten tournament to have ever taken place globally.
The event has seen a total of 122 entrants, 48 of which are re-entries. Currently, there are 58 players left in the field, including the game’s creator Anders “Bengan” Bengtsson, reigning Hendon Mob Champion, and Opener second place finisher Haik Tougu.
The Festival Founder “Franke” and fellow Festival team member Andreas Hoglund are still in, as are Festival regulars Barrie Dear and Sascha Manns.
Registration has come to a close here at The Chesterfield Poker Club in Tallinn.
The chip leader at the second break is Finnish national Eero Westerlund, who has 158,000 in chips. He will get a beautiful portrait courtesy of our in-house artist “Modernoise”.
Sascha Mann’s full house has been bested not once, but twice, here at the Chesterfield Poker Club in Tallinn.
Jens Riis had nines full of fours to beat Mann’s sevens full of eights. It was then beaten again a few moments later by Siim Nikopensius, who had quad jacks in hand to take the lead in the high hand rankings.
Leading the way in the high hand rankings is former Festival Series Mixed Game Main Event Champion Sascha Manns (pictured above). He had a full house in hand with 7 7 7 8 8 .
In the board hand rankings, it could be hard to beat a queen-high straight flush on the board. Estonian national Henrik Puija (pictured below) had Q 10 with K K J additionally. The board ran out Q J 9 8 9 .
The Festival Weekend Sviten Special Main Event has reached 101 total entrants. Registration remains open, and 63 are currently in the field.
A total of 31 re-entries have been made here at The Chesterfield Poker Club in Tallinn. There is still plenty of time to get involved.
At the end of the break after Level 4, Michal Zielinski was confirmed to be the chipleader, so he will have his portrait taken.
However, he is now being rivalled by Eero Westerlund (pictured), who chopped a monster four-way pot with Bjorn-Olav Oeverboe.
Westerlund had 5 5 5 2 6 for the high-hand, and Oeverboe had a straight on the board with 9 7 8 2 3 .
The board runout was A 10 2 6 9 and both players chopped.
Franke has announced that the chipleader at the end of Level 8 will qualify to have their portrait taken by the Festival artist “Modernoise”.
Also, whoever has the highest draw hand and the highest board hand will qualify for the portrait.
Check out modernnoise.art on Instagram to see more of our talented artists’ work.
Barrie Dear is a UK-born, Edinburgh-based poker player known for his sharp skills in mixed games and consistent performances across European poker circuits, including our humble The Festival Series. Barrie has made a name for himself not only in traditional No-Limit Hold’em but particularly in niche formats such as Sviten Special, H.O.R.S.E., and Pot-Limit 2-7 Triple Draw.
With over 40 recorded live cashes, his career includes standout performances at The Festival Series. He claimed his biggest win at The Festival Malta, where he took 1st place in the Sviten Special event for €4,950, further confirming his great status in mixed-game poker.
He came all the way to Tallinn as well to enjoy some fine Sviten Special action here at The Festival Weekend. Let’s go, Barrie!
| Flag | Game Type | Place |
|---|---|---|
 | PLO 4/5/6 Cards (7 Max) | 15th |
| 8-Game | 8th |
 | Big O | 3rd |
| NLHE – Turbo Midnight Madness | 7th |
| PLO 2-7 Triple Draw | 1st |
| PLO 4/5/6 Cards | 8th |
| H.O.R.S.E.S. Main Event | 5th |
 | 2-7 Triple Draw | 5th |
| 8-Game | 10th |
| Sviten Special | 1st |
| PLO – 5 Card | 2nd |
| PLO / PLO8 | 9th |
| PLO 4/5/6 Cards | 3rd |
| PLO – Tuesday Knockout | 5th |
| 8 Game | 7th |
| Sviten Special | 3rd |
The chips are flying here at The Chesterfield Poker Club in Tallinn. Currently, 60 remain of the 77 total entrants. There have been 14 re-entries after three levels of play.
Sviten Special newcomer and Opener third-place finisher, Waldemar Sadowski, is in the field. Opener winner Gia Carnestrom has had an early exit, as did Sascha Manns and The Festival Boss “Franke”, but both have since rebought.
The blinds have just increased to 200/400 at the start of Level 4.
The Festival’s in-house artist “Modernoise” is drawing players who meet a certain criteria. The first player to bust gets a portrait taken of them live at The Chesterfield Poker Club here in Tallinn, as does the first player to rebuy into the tournament.
So, if you are “Robert” from Estonia, who was the first to bust, and Ivor Simmer, who was the first reentry, feel free to come on down to the big screen at the back of the cardroom for your portrait to be taken if you so wish.
Currently, Finnish national Oskari Piira is having his portrait taken, as he was the first player to scoop a pot after drawing five.
It has just been announced that a portrait will be taken of whoever has the most reentries into this Main Event, as well as the chip leader at the end of the first break.
The photo of the portrait will be added in due course when the artist has completed his work.
Drop him a follow on modernoise.art on Instagram to see more of his amazing work.
Due to the Sviten Special Opener being forced into a 10-way ICM chop due to the casino closing at 4 a.m. this morning, the final ten players have been given a €100 Sviten Main Event ticket to compensate for the chop.
The €100 Sviten Special Main Event is officially underway here at The Chesterfield Poker Club in Tallinn. Good luck to all who take part!
The tournament floor is quickly filling up at The Chesterfield Poker Club. A total of 51 have entered The Festival Sviten Main Event in Tallinn. Franke is now delivering one of his trademark pre-tournament speeches before the off.
He has presented The Opener winner Gia Carnestrom (pictured) with her winner’s portrait. She also claimed the €350 Sviten Main Event Malta ticket for her victory.
Currently, 29 have registered for the €100 Sviten Special Main Event here at the Chesterfield Poker Club in the beautiful city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
The prize pool currently stands at a guarantee of €10,000, and players will be allowed unlimited reentries until the end of the break at Level 8.
Some familiar faces have entered for the start of play at 6.30 p.m. local time, including Sviten creator Anders “Bengan” Bengtsson, last night’s Opener winner Gia Carnestrom, and Festival regular Barrie Dear.
Representing the Festival team is the boss himself, Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk, and fellow Swede and superhost Andreas Hoglund!
Good luck to all who take to the field!
It’s been a great first two days of The Festival Weekend here at the Chesterfield Pokerclub in Tallinn! A lot of familiar faces, including online qualifiers, and the entire Festival Team, are present. What else could you wish for?!
Shot by Nikita (@hellsjesus) and edited by Aleks (@plujw), our two resident rockstars.
