Vadim Guk Leads the Final 27 Players of the 2024 Coolbet Open Tallinn Main Event

The penultimate day of the 2024 Coolbet Open Tallinn €550 Main Event brought back 191 survivors of the opening flights to their seats inside the Nordic Hotel Forum in Tallinn. Another 40 entries in the first level of the day increased the overall tally for the flagship tournament at the Chesterfield Poker Club up to 504 entries to generate a prize pool of €244,440.

After more than nine levels total, the action was halted once the final three tables were reached and Vadim Guk emerged as the comfortable chip leader after a late surge, which propelled his stack to 1,725,000. His nearest follower Steven Tool (1,065,000) is the only other player with a seven-figure stack thus far.

The home country dominates the overnight top ten with six players from Estonia present, while Iceland, Sweden and Norway are also have at least one of their own in the mix for the top third of the leaderboard.

Top 10 Chip Counts After Day 2

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Vadim Guk	Estonia	1,725,000	86
2	Steven Tool	Estonia	1,065,000	53
3	Daniel Axelsson	Iceland	990,000	50
4	Laasik Kasso	Estonia	920,000	46
5	Madis Müür	Estonia	850,000	43
6	Seyed Tabaei	Sweden	780,000	39
7	Esko Brandt	Estonia	765,000	38
8	Anders Bjorkheim	Norway	610,000	31
9	Taavi Pusa	Estonia	595,000	30
10	Ludvik Gudmundsson	Iceland	555,000	28

Among the most experienced players still in contention is well-known Estonian regular Madis Müür, who sits in fifth place with 850,000 in chips. Kaido Mikk is the only former Coolbet Open Main Event winner still in contention and will have a similar scenario for the final day as he had prior to the shuffle up and deal for Day 2: A short stack and mountain to climb, as he sits on just 360,000 (18 big blinds).

The only other previous champion, fellow Estonian Ott-Kaarli Toome, made a deep run once more and bowed out in 39th place for €1,225. Warm-Up winner Mateusz Jablonski followed right behind while the last two female contenders in the field - Ingvill Nilsen from Norway and Ave Lepik from Estonia - were the final two casualties of the night.

Guk's late surge towards the top of the leaderboard commenced with the dramatic elimination of Mario Jürgens, yet he nearly doubled his stack from there on after scooping several bigger pots without showdown.

Jürgens had bubbled the opening Warm-Up Event during the series here in Tallinn and was the player responsible for bursting the Main Event bubble. His pocket kings held up against the pocket queens of Leif Iversen to secure a min-cash of €1,000 for the top 62 finishers.

Notables to leave empty-handed without anything to show for include the Coolbet Twitch streamers Ylva Thorsrud and Christian Arstad, Ranno Sootla, Jari Hurri, Andreas Hoivold, Toni Ojala, Rob Perelman, Dan Tolppanen, as well as Joni Liimatta.

All remaining 27 players have locked up a cash prize of €1,375 so far, while reaching the nine-handed final table will secure at least €4,665 for the efforts. The winner can look forward to a top prize of €50,000 for the seventh edition of the Coolbet Open Main Event.

With 49:14 minutes left in level 19 at blinds of 10,000-20,000 and a big blind ante of 20,000, the bottom ten players on the leaderboard have fewer than 20 big blinds at their disposal and that could make for a frantic opening stage for the final table.

The conclusion of the tournament is scheduled to kick off at noon local time on Saturday, August 31, 2024, and the action will be streamed on the Coolbet Twitch channel. All PokerNews updates for the final day will be published according to the 30-minute security delay of the live stream action.

History of the Coolbet Open Main Events

Year	Location	Entries	Prize Pool	Winner	Country	Top Prize
2018	Tallinn	425	€ 205,525	Sebastian Wahl	Finland	€50,100
2018	Tallinn	589	€ 285,665	Mats Albertsen	Norway	€60,510
2019	Tallinn	531	€ 252,685	Mathias Siljander	Finland	€60,100
2019	Tallinn	686	€ 332,710	Ott-Kaarli Toome	Estonia	€71,700
2022	Tallinn	652	€ 312,960	Kaido Mikk	Estonia	€65,700
2023	Bratislava	620	€ 300,000	Ville Hakala	Finland	€60,000
2024	Tallinn	504	€ 244,440	TBD	TBD	€50,000