Jarrod Coughtrie Chipleads Main Event Plus Plenty of Side Event Action on Day 4 of The Festival Weekend Tallinn
The penultimate day of this Festival Weekend in Tallinn has flown by here at Olympic Park Casino. The day saw the first Mystery Bounties pulled and Jarrod Coughtrie retake the chiplead in the Main Event. There were winners in two debutant side events, the €350 PL Dealers Choice and the €200 NLH 7-2 Estonian Special (Including INES Rule), and the €1,100 10-Game Mix and another €5,000 "Friendly" Sit-and-Go winner. Here is a look at the action.
€555 Main Event Mystery Bounty Day 2
A field of 26 players returned to the felt in the two-card streets for Day 2 of the Main Event Mystery Bounty. Because of the stack distributions and big bounties up for grabs, the field was more than halved just a few hours into the day's play. The first round of egg hatching has taken place for the players in the Mystery Bounty Main Event. Of the players who took to the stage, it was David Santalla and Martin Wilborg who had the most success. They both pulled €4,000 from the bounty prize pool, consisting of a €3,000 and a €1,000 bounty. Below is the table of the remaining bounties.
| Amount | Value |
|---|---|
| 1 | €10,000 |
| 1 | €5,000 |
| 0 | €3,000 |
| 1 | €2,000 |
| 1 | €1,500 |
| 3 | €1,000 |
| 5 | €500 |
Unlike in the world of online poker, the biggest bounty remains in play heading into tomorrow's final table. The unfortunate soul who missed out on that privilege was Mantas Burba. Action was picked up with a short-stacked Burba all in against the covering stack of Hampus Grönström. Burba had 10 8 , and Grönström had 8 6 . The 2 5 A flop gave Grönström a flush draw, and he hit it on the river, across the A and 3 . Ultimately, it was the Aussie Jarrod Coughtrie who takes the chiplead into the final day of the weekend, as he bagged 40,000 more than Markus Vesala in second. Coughtrie bagged 1,001,000 in the opening flight. Timo Ruuska and Mati Pirn are the short-stacks. Below are the counts.
| Pos | Player | Nationality | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jarrod Coughtrie | Austrailia | 1,640,000 |
| 2 | Markus Vesala | Finland | 1,600,000 |
| 3 | Ville-Matti Keränen | Finland | 1,420,000 |
| 4 | Marijus Dirgela | Lithuania | 1,390,000 |
| 5 | Hampus Grönström | Sweden | 1,260,000 |
| 6 | David Santalla | Spain | 1,200,000 |
| 7 | Martin Willborg | Sweden | 1,040,000 |
| 8 | Timo Ruuska | Finland | 545,000 |
| 9 | Mati Pirn | Estonia | 495,000 |
€1,100 10-Game Mix Final Day
Fifteen players returned for Day 2 of the €1,100 10-Game Mix. One of whom was Alexander Freund, who was looking to win the two biggest Mixed Games events of the week, having won the €555 TORSES Main Event yesterday afternoon. Marc Gork came into ft play short-stacked, but accumulated chips from the off. In a hand of PLO4, Gork was all in three-way on a flush-draw flop with an open-ended straight flush draw v top two and middle set. The turn gave him the flush, and the river bricked to propel him up the counts.
However, Gork ended up on the decline, and became the victim of the bubble to runaway chip-leader Sampo Ryynänen, who add the majority of the chips in play six-handed. Gork moved all in in the first hand of BigO, having tripled from 3,000 to 12,000 the hand before in Badugi. He had A 3 4 5 6 against Ryynänen's A 3 6 7 J . Gork couldn't even make a pair across the K J K 7 9 runout and became the bubble boy. By the time the bust-out post was written, play was left heads-up, with Ryynänen facing off against Freund. However, the Austrian had his double-suited aces cracked, in BigO as Ryynänen flopped two pair and rivered a full house to take down the title. Ryynänen is a Mixed Games specialist, with over $1,500,000 in live tournament earnings according to our friends at thehendonmob.com. Below are the payouts.
| Place | Player | Nationality | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sampo Ryynänen | Finland | €6,840 |
| 2 | Alexander Freund | Austria | €4,790 |
| 3 | Mikael Koistinen | Finland | €3,080 |
| 4 | Kjetil Flaaten | Norway | €2,390 |
€5,000 Sit-and-Go Take #2
The €5k Sit-and-go was so well recieved they decided to play it back with a slightly altered field. Fresh off the biggest bubble of his life last night, Franke opted to miss this one. This time, there was also a twist. For every five hands, one of them was PLO, and the other four will be Texas Hold’em. Below is the lineup.
- For every five hands, one of them will be PLO, and the other four will be Texas Hold’em. Below are the confirmed players, with some of yesterday’s players returning to Olympic Park Casino once again for the high-stakes 8-max event. Below is the lineup.
- Newly crowned €1,100 10-Game Mix champion Sampo Ryynänen
- The Festival Bratislava 2026 PLO High Roller runner-up Teemu Sattanen
- #1 on Estonia’s All-Time Money List, Vladimir “Gambledore”
- #5 on Estonia’s All-Time Money List, Ranno Sootla
- Gambling entrepreneur Ossi Ketola
- Bombay Club €25,000 Main Event Winner 2025 Kasper Kaisel
- Daniel Cao
- Tomi Rahikainen
Ketola opted for the max variance route, and he fired 10 bullets before being the first officially out of the tournament. Cao was the bubble boy in a PLO hand, where he got it all in on the flop with a flush draw on Q A 7 against Sootla. Cao checkp-raised all in with 2 5 6 10 in a blind v blind confrontation. Sootla called with A K J 10 for pair and broadway draw. The 5 Q turn and river saw Cao crash out and heads-up play commence.
Ultimately it was Estomia's #5 on the All time Money List Sootla who bested Korzinin heads-up for a €69,000 payday. In one of the first hands of heads-up play, Sootla opened to 10k with the blinds at 2k/4k with queens. Korzinin clicked it to 35k. Sootla four-bet and Korzinin jammed with nine-seven offsuit. The runout provided no relief for Gambledore but offered a straight draw sweat on the turn. The river bricked and Sootla scooped a sizeable payday for a few hours in the office who won the Ketola bucks from one bullet only. Cao was in for three, and he secured €37,500 for his efforts.
Today's Schedule
| Time | Game | Event | Buy-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | NLH | Main Event Day 3 (Mystery) | N/A |
| 12:30 | Mixed | Baby TORSES Supreme | €200 |
| 13:00 | NLH | NLH Sunday Brunch (Added package to The Festival Malta) | €200 |
| 14:00 | Mixed | OFC Pineapple | €1,100 |
Tune in tomorrow for more of the same of the final day of the The Festival Weekned Tallinn. The blog will be focused mainly on the Main Event, but there is plenty of action from across the tournament floor at Olympic Park Casino.
That's all for now, folks. Until next time (later on today). Goodnight and good morning from wherever you are reading from.
