Another edition of the well-known OlyBet Poker Festival kicked off yesterday, Friday, in Estonia’s capital with the Kings of Tallinn Autumn Edition 2026. A total of over 60 tournaments are scheduled to take place over ten days at the Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel & Olympic Park Casino. The festival kicked off with the NLH Mini Main Event, featuring a buy-in of 250 euros. After the first day of the opening tournament, Norway’s Havard Erling Solheim is in the lead.
The first starting day of the Mini Main Event saw 169 entries. This has already raised €34,577 in the prize pool, even though two more starting flights are still to come. Of the players who started, 58 survived the first day and qualified for Sunday’s final. Solheim ended the day with 365,000 chips, putting him at the top of the field. Close behind is Sweden’s Rohan Oberoi, founder of the poker staking platform Pebel, with 333,000 chips. Third place is held by Estonia’s Taago Tamm with 256,000 chips. Germany’s Robert Rohr is also in a promising position. With 244,000 chips, he is in fourth place, right behind the top three. Sweden’s Mehdi Yazdanpanah rounds out the top five with 226,500 chips.
The €250 Mini Main Event will continue on Saturday with two more starting days. Flight 1B begins at 12:30 p.m., followed by Flight 1C at 7:30 p.m. The final day is scheduled for Sunday, October 11, at 12:00 p.m. There was also a free qualification route on the very first day: a freebuy satellite sent 17 players into the opening day without a buy-in. With the two remaining flights, both the field of participants and the prize pool are expected to grow further.
The highlight of the fall edition of Kings of Tallinn will take place over the course of the coming week with the €1,100 Main Event and a guaranteed prize pool of €500,000. Play will take place during the ten days of the festival at the Olympic Park Casino and the adjacent Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel. OlyBet provides further information on qualification options and the tournament. Here are the top ten in the Mini Main Event after Day 1:
| Place | Player | Country | Chips |
| 1 | Havard Erling Solheim | Norway | 365,000 |
| 2 | Rohan Oberoi | Sweden | 333,000 |
| 3 | Taago Tamm | Estonia | 256,000 |
| 4 | Robert Rohr | Germany | 244,000 |
| 5 | Mehdi Yazdanpanah | Sweden | 226,500 |
| 6 | Henri Antikainen | Finland | 217,500 |
| 7 | Vytautas Kacerauskas | Lithuania | 204,500 |
| 8 | Janis Juriks | Latvia | 170,000 |
| 9 | Siim Kabel | Estonia | 165,000 |
| 10 | Andrejs Martinevskis | Latvia | 132,500 |
Photos and information courtesy of OlyBet Poker / Mairo Toom