Can Marta Porter Defend Her Queens of Tallinn Main Event Title in 2024?

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Nov 21, 2024 3 min read

The Olympic Park Casino and Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel is again hosting the Queens of Tallinn festival, with the 2024 edition running from November 28 through to December 1. The Queens of Tallinn festival is a celebration of women in poker, and continues OlyBet's dedication to inclusiveness.

In 2023, the Queens of Tallinn schedule featured seven events, including a €350 buy-in Main Event. Following its successful debut 12 months ago, the 2024 edition has grown to 11 tournaments, with the eagerly anticipated Main Event seeing its total buy-in reduced to a more affordable €250.

Ladies have the chance to win their way into the Main Event for free, thanks to a free satellite scheduled for 9:00 p.m. local time on November 28 and another at 3:00 p.m. local time on November 29.

Speaking of the Main Event, Lithuania's Marta Porter (lead image) is expected to head to Tallinn and attempt to defend her title. Porta has some impressive results on her resume despite only recording her first cash on her Hendon Mob profile in August 2022.

Porter finished fifth in a £110 NLHE Women's Championship Event in the United Kingdom for £1,060, cashed in the 2022 WSOP Online $500 Ladies Championship, and banked $4,421 for a third-place finish in a $200 NLHE event in Las Vegas.

After taking down the 2023 Queens of Tallinn Main Event for a career-best €6,167, Porter won the €60 NLHE/PLO Mix event for an additional €441. More recently, Porter was the fourth-place finisher in the €250 NLHE Ladies event and in the €150 NLHE at the 2024 World Series of Poker Circuit Tallinn festival, raking in €1,820 and €3,520, respectively.

2024 Queens of Tallinn Schedule

*Event is open to everyone

"I'm happy to be able to support women's poker and develop women's poker"

OlyBet Tournament Director Teresa Nousiainen is eager for the 2024 Queens of Tallinn to get underway and is delighted to be running the show in the Estonian capital.

"The support that women poker players give each other, and the extraordinary warm vibes we had at last year's Queens of Tallinn festival is second to none. And as a tournament director, I'm happy to be able to support women's poker and develop women's poker events all together, and I'm happy that OlyBet gives all their support for any women's poker events and Queens of Tallinn."

Queens of Tallinn 2023 Results

The aforementioned Porter triumphed in last year's Queens of Tallinn Main Event and was the festival's largest winner. Two other players helped themselves to four figure scores, too. Finland's Riitta Sahala came out on top in the€100 NLHE Deep Stack, outlasting 60 opponents on her way to collecting €1,434. Imre Leibold won the €60 NLHE Ladies & Gentlemen event for €1,408, leaving 110 opponents in his wake.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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