History Written as Jenny Westerlund Shatters Barriers at WSOP Circuit Tallinn

Tallinn has witnessed many poker champions, but this year’s WSOP Circuit €1,500 Main Event will echo in the Estonian capital’s hallowed halls for years to come. The Olympic Park Casino and Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel became the epicenter of the poker world as one of Northern Europe’s most electric festivals unfolded, culminating in a moment that will last a lifetime. Sweden’s Jenny Westerlund became the first-ever female champion of a WSOP Circuit Main Event in Tallinn and one of a handful of women to do so across the entire global WSOP Circuit. Westerlund also became the first female champion in an international open Main Event hosted by OlyBet Poker.

The WSOP Circuit Tallinn Main Event attracted 888 entries, smashing the lofty €1,000,000 guarantee for a whopping €1,138,860 prize pool. The railbirds and players alike knew they were watching the kind of sweat dreams are made of. For Westerlund, the dreams didn’t just come true; she absolutely crushed them, bagging the ring and a €200,200 payday, plus a $5,000 Ticket to Paradise package for this year’s WSOP in the Bahamas after defeating Poland’s Krzysztof Chmielowski heads-up in front of a live-streamed audience. The former poker dealer didn’t just win; she etched her name in history, forever part of the legend.

Meanwhile, Spain’s Enrique Lago Sanchez Martinez earned the final coveted gold ring at the 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn after defeating Finland’s Tommi Lankinen heads-up in the two-day €3,000 NLH for €80,500.

Two trophies were also awarded on the final day in side events. Czech Republic’s Karel Kratochvil defeated Lithuania’s Albert Ostrovskij heads-up in the €350 NLH Progressive Bounty for €4,690 plus bounties. Norway’s Lasse Hansen claimed the final trophy after defeating his country-mate Ole Soltvedt heads-up to earn the €4,660 top prize in the €200 NLH Turbo.

Read on to learn more about Westerlund’s road to victory in the 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn €1,500 Main Event at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park.

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Westerlund Defeats International Final Table in 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn Main Event

From Lithuania to England and all across the Nordic North, players representing every corner of Europe and beyond took their seats at the final table of the live-streamed 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn Main Event, which was live-reported at poker.pro by Christoffer Karlen. Czech Republic’s Martin Surovec began the final table with the chip lead, with Westerlund not too far behind. However, Westerlund had the early momentum and the crowd at her back to easily become the fan favorite on the final day of the WSOP Circuit Tallinn.

Early on, Lithuania’s Karolis Kutkauskas, who had previously wielded a monster stack but was short-stacked at the final table, became the ninth-place finisher for €14,200, after his jacks ran into the aces held by another short-stacked player, Jari-Pekka Juhola.

The United Kingdom’s Stephen Groom was the next to fall, after his big slick ran cold against kings, taking home €19,500 for his eighth-place performance.

The action was relentless, with Estonia’s own Igor Pihela Sr. ending Finland’s Jari-Pekka Juhola’s run in a brutal, deck-defying one-outer in seventh place for €25,060. Pihela called a jam by his opponent with fours on an all-heart ace-king-eight flop against ace-ten, only for the four of diamonds to come on the turn.

The 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn €5,000 NLH ring winner, Norway’s David Vinaya, was one of the favorites after his victory in the €5,000 event, but his dreams of another ring fizzled out in sixth place for €33,100. Fellow Finn, Elias Vääräniemi, had the crowd roaring but bowed out in fifth for €46,000, while Surovec’s dreams were dashed at Westerlund’s hands when his ace-ten was unable to hold against ace-nine to finish in fourth place for €62,500.

The ending came out of nowhere as Westerlund ousted the final two players in the same hand. Chmielowski opened with queens before Pihela three-bet with ace-six. Westerlund four-bet with ace-jack before Chmielowski five-bet shoved for a little bit more. Pihela called off his stack, while Westerlund put in a few extra chips and covered both players. Westerlund flopped a flush draw. Instead of completing the flush draw, she nailed an ace on the turn and eliminated Chmielowski in second place for €128,500 and Pihela in third place for €90,200 to enter her name into poker’s history books.

2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn €1,500 Main Event Final Table Results

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	Jenny Westerlund	Sweden	€200,200
2	Krzysztof Chmielowski	Poland	€128,500
3	Igor Pihela Sr	Estonia	€90,200
4	Martin Surovec	Czech Republic	€62,500
5	Elias Vääräniemi	Finland	€46,000
6	David Vinaya	Norway	€33,100
7	Jari-Pekka Juhola	Finland	€25,060
8	Stephen Groom	United Kingdom	€19,500
9	Karolis Kutkauskas	Lithuania	€14,200

Westerlund now shares the stage with Jessica Vierling, another barrier-breaking Main Event champ, showing women everywhere the possibilities when nerves of steel and flawless decision-making meet fate. For Tallinn, for poker, and —without hyperbole —for the history books, this was more than a ring. It’s an invitation for everyone to dream a little bigger.

All 12 championship rings have now been claimed, the chips are bagged, and the lights dimmed in Estonia. But across the poker world, the story of Jenny Westerlund’s magical run in Tallinn will be retold every time someone sits down with a dream and a stack of chips.

2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn €3,000 NLH Results

The two-day €3,000 NLH attracted 106 entries to create a €287,896 prize pool with the top 14 players locking in at least a €6,000 min-cash when they returned to action for Day 2. The payouts quickly increased until Spain’s Enrique Martinez earned the coveted WSOP Circuit gold ring and the €80,500 top prize.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Enrique Martinez	Spain	€80,500
2	Tommi Lankinen	Finland	€54,800
3	Anton Markachev	Russia	€37,000
4	Max Sanders	United Kingdom	€25,500
5	Diego Aquilio	Italy	€18,900
6	Aliaksandr Shylko	Belarus	€13,646
7	Mounir Tajiou	Sweden	€11,000
8	Juho Suutari	Finland	€9,050
9	Matias Arosuo	Finland	€7,500
10	Borja Martinez	Spain	€6,000
11	Ivan Deyra	France	€6,000
12	Ermo Kosk	Estonia	€6,000
13	Jerry Ödeen	Sweden	€6,000
14	Alexander Norden	Sweden	€6,000

2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn Ring Event Champions

Event #	Event	Winner	Country	Prize	Entries	Prize Pool
1	€350 Mini Main Event	Simon Hesserud Persson	Sweden	€45,700	954	€280,953
2	€555 PLO4/5	Andria Gogelidze	Georgia	€27,100	268	€127,300
3	€555 NLH	Toni Niinivaara	Finland	€62,100	744	€353,400
4	€350 NLH Queens	Drea Karlsen	Norway	€6,480	74	€21,793
5	€1,500 Main Event	Jenny Westerlund	Sweden	€200,200	888	€1,138,860
6	€1,100 PLO4/5	Mathias Siljander	Finland	€41,000	185	€175,750
7	€5,000 NLH	David Vinaya	Norway	€94,280	64	€297,984
8	€1,100 8-Game	Krzysztof Budka	Poland	€22,390	79	€75,050
9	€555 Sviten	Jarkko Suokas	Finland	€14,035	113	€53,675
10	€1,100 Mystery Bounty	Fabian Bartuschk	Germany	€61,050	210	€94,500
11	€3,000 NLH	Enrique Martinez	Spain	€80,500	106	€287,896
12	€350 Online Ring Event	Eriks Krumins	Latvia	€8,507	168	€55,440

• Photos courtesy of Elena Kask / OlyBet Poker