Enri Orav made it to his seat, and was immediately active. While we don't have all the exact details of the hand, Orav shared that his stack is now down to 120,000 after he folded a straight to his opponent's big three bet for 75,000 on the river.
Sergei Oganesjan with 15 big blinds jammed all-in with . Christoph Rueegg called and Jens Riis wishing his drinking buddy, "Good Luck!"
Rueegg stood up and said, "I don't need any luck, I just need my hand to hold and turned over . The board ran out , which gave Oganesjan a straight to double up his stack to 64,000 and delivered a disappointed Rueegg a bad beat.
Jens Riis celebrated his birthday yesterday and was here with Christph Rueegg until the early hours of the morning drinking and playing ring games.
Riis tried to convince Kirill Zemskov to have a shot with him, stating that, "You won't make the final table if you don't do a shot!"
While Riis was unconvincing to Zemskov, he found another taker as Rueegg agreed to take a shot with him saying he just needed water first to help recover from last night.
Riis meanwhile is playing very active early on and his stack is down to about 33,000 chips. He was also just all in with against another player holding the same hand. Just afterwards, he shared, "I don't know what hand I can really fold."
Everyone has now made it to their seats except Cash Game Festival co-founder Enri Orav. Orav began the day with 150,700 and his stack is being blinded off until he makes it to his seat.
Additionally, just after Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk hit the showers on the first hand, Martin Männamaa, holding the second shortest stack to start the day, became the second player to be eliminated today.
Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk came into today's action as the shortest stack with 17,000 chips or 8.5 big blinds. On the very first hand of the day, von Zweigbergk was eliminated after his was unable to outrace Rauno Tahvonen's when a king spiked the flop.
As usual, von Zweigbergk was all smiles and shared with the crowd there was nothing he could do. He was uncertain whether he will play in the $5,000 Bounty Freeroll set to begin in less than one hour.
In just an hour, action will resume at Olympic Park Casino for the second and final day in the 2016 888Live Tallinn $30,000 Guaranteed Main Event. Less than half the 80 player field survived yesterday's action with 33 players competing today for a piece of the €28,800 prize pool.
Nine players will cash in this tournament for at least €1,000 with the top prize of €9,000 and the coveted trophy to the winner.
Currently, Estonia's Mauri Dorbak is sitting on top of the field with a healthy 159,900 chip stack with blinds set to resume at 1,000/2,000 and an ante of 300. Dorbak is one of the most successful Estonian players sitting in seventh place on The Hendon Mob Estonia All-Time Money List with $310,657 in live tournament cashes.
Not too far behind him is fellow Estonians Enri Orav with 150,700 in second place and Urmo Velvelt with 120,000 in third place. Rounding out the top five are Ukraine's Dmitri Gaškov in fourth place with 119,900 and Denmark's Jens Riis, who was at the casino last night late celebrating his birthday, in fifth place with 90,200.
According to the big board, the average chip stack is currently at 57,575 chips, representing almost 29 big blinds.
Also today is the $5,000 Bounty Freeroll for players that qualified into the Main Event through 888poker that are already eliminated in the Main Event. Additionally, tonight at 11:00 p.m., players will be invited to party the night away at VaBank nightclub.
Stay tuned to our live reporting here at PokerNews for updates throughout the day.