When you try something the first time and it goes fabulously right, there is only one thing to do: do it again.

With that, PokerStars is brining back the Baltic region's largest poker tournament, the PokerStars Baltic Festival. Held at the luxurious Swissôtel in Tallinn, Estonia, the event will run June 16-20.

The first PokerStars Baltic Festival in October of last year brought together 307 players from 24 countries to create a prize pool of more than €300,000. Thomas Partridge from the UK took the title and cashed for more than €75,000.

After the inaugural event's success, this year's PokerStars Baltic Festival wil up the buy-in to €1,500 (up from €1,100) and should appeal to the large number of celebrated poker pros in the region and help ensure some new regional records.

For more information on how you can qualify, check out the PokerStars Baltic Festival page..

A few years ago, when jetting was not yet Easy and before Ryan had taken to the Air, the idea of a Briton visiting Estonia would have been laughed out of the departure lounge. But low-cost air travel has not only allowed stag nights to go rampaging around Europe's medieval old towns, it has also made Tallinn a destination so attractive that two British poker players flew there this week and destroyed the field at the inaugural PokerStars Baltic Festival.

In truth, I don't know which airline Thomas Partridge and James Keys took en route to Tallinn this week. What I do know is that they could probably hire a private jet to take them home. When this tournament reached its climax after about five-and-a-half hours play today, it was Partridge and Keys heads up for the title, and the winner's cheque of €76,750.

Partridge, a 24-year-old player from Teign Valley in Devon, clinched it after a brief battle against his friend. His king-high flush in spades, versus Keys' two pair, sealed the deal, forcing Keys to settle for €48,505. Partridge, meanwhile, is the first champion of what is very likely to become a fixture on the poker calendar. He is also off to the PCA in the Bahamas as the winner of a bonus package put up by PokerStars. Job done.

"I haven't played many live tournaments," Partridge said. "But our friend qualified and encouraged us to come along as well. I'm very pleased with the way it went. Now I'm going to try to improve my game before going to the Bahamas."

We began day three with 17 players and all eyeing the top prize. Natasha Ellis, another Briton, was the first out the door, when her pocket eights couldn't beat Q-J, and that started a rush of eliminations that took us to our final table of nine in double-quick time. Among those to fall short were Andrius Tapinas, Lithuania's finest, and the local hope Imre Leibold. But the pace had been frantic and the action brutal; few were spared the bloodshed.

Going into the final, the leader was Michael Fardan, from Denmark, who had personally accounted for at least five of the early eliminations. He had Keys out-chipped by a small handful, with Partridge breathing down their necks. And although we were at a final, the pace didn't slacken one bit. Finland's Antti Kärkkäinen, Johan Nilsson, of Sweden, Jerry Wong, of Holland, and another Finn, Petri Heinanen, were sent packing.

Then it got really ugly. Fardan and Keys were still huge in chips when they got involved in a monster pot. The board had all kinds of possibilities - two fives, an ace and a king - and Keys showed A-K when Fardan called his huge river bet. Muck, and Keys finished Fardan off with pocket tens soon after.

He wasn't even done. Claus Bek Nielsen must have loved finding pocket kings four-handed, and slyly managed to get all of his chips in the middle, called by the dominant Keys. But he was dominant in more ways than one: he also had pocket aces in a vicious cooler.

Nielsen departed, leaving the Norwegian Kenneth Danielsen to do battle with the Brits.

That didn't last long. He struggled gamely, and pushed Keys off a few pots, but then along came another cooler: A-10 versus A-K. Keys was in unstoppable form as Danielsen became our final Nordic representative to depart.

Throughout all this, Partridge had been playing it steady. He was taking down anything that was on offer while avoiding the major confrontations, and with Keys on his left - and picking up all these monsters - it was an exercise primarily in damage limitation. Heads up was a different story, though. Keys won the first small pot, but after that every pot was big and they all went to Partridge. In chunks of 200,000-odd each, he reeled in the two-to-one deficit and took the lead.

The winning pot was the kind that so often wins major tournaments: it was the first time two big hands went up against each other and all of the chips went in. Partridge's flush faded Keys' full house outs and the two shook hands with customary British understatement and politeness. Even their railbirds didn't know whether to cheer: they really didn't mind who won. "I don't want to look too happy because my friend lost," said Partridge.

But soon champagne was in both of their mitts, and our new champion was crowned.

Read all the action from today on our level-by-level updates. And Swedish might look like utter nonsense, but there's enough of it at our Swedish blog to make you think someone must understand it.

Introduction to the final day
Level 16&17 updates
Level 18&19 updates
Level 20 updates

There's more from the video blog team at PokerStars.tv. And thanks once again, and for the whole week, to Rene Velli, who has provided some excellent photographs.

The next major event we'll be covering at PokerStars blog will be the World Series final table from Las Vegas. Does EasyJet fly to Nevada?

Good night.

A few years ago, when jetting was not yet Easy and before Ryan had taken to the Air, the idea of a Briton visiting Estonia would have been laughed out of the departure lounge. But low-cost air travel has not only allowed stag nights to go rampaging around Europe's medieval old towns, it has also made Tallinn a destination so attractive that two British poker players flew there this week and destroyed the field at the inaugural PokerStars Baltic Festival.

In truth, I don't know which airline Thomas Partridge and James Keys took en route to Tallinn this week. What I do know is that they could probably hire a private jet to take them home. When this tournament reached its climax after about five-and-a-half hours play today, it was Partridge and Keys heads up for the title, and the winner's cheque of €76,750.

Partridge, a 24-year-old player from Teign Valley in Devon, clinched it after a brief battle against his friend. His king-high flush in spades, versus Keys' two pair, sealed the deal, forcing Keys to settle for €48,505. Partridge, meanwhile, is the first champion of what is very likely to become a fixture on the poker calendar. He is also off to the PCA in the Bahamas as the winner of a bonus package put up by PokerStars. Job done.

"I haven't played many live tournaments," Partridge said. "But our friend qualified and encouraged us to come along as well. I'm very pleased with the way it went. Now I'm going to try to improve my game before going to the Bahamas."

We began day three with 17 players and all eyeing the top prize. Natasha Ellis, another Briton, was the first out the door, when her pocket eights couldn't beat Q-J, and that started a rush of eliminations that took us to our final table of nine in double-quick time. Among those to fall short were Andrius Tapinas, Lithuania's finest, and the local hope Imre Leibold. But the pace had been frantic and the action brutal; few were spared the bloodshed.

Going into the final, the leader was Michael Fardan, from Denmark, who had personally accounted for at least five of the early eliminations. He had Keys out-chipped by a small handful, with Partridge breathing down their necks. And although we were at a final, the pace didn't slacken one bit. Finland's Antti Kärkkäinen, Johan Nilsson, of Sweden, Jerry Wong, of Holland, and another Finn, Petri Heinanen, were sent packing.

Then it got really ugly. Fardan and Keys were still huge in chips when they got involved in a monster pot. The board had all kinds of possibilities - two fives, an ace and a king - and Keys showed A-K when Fardan called his huge river bet. Muck, and Keys finished Fardan off with pocket tens soon after.

He wasn't even done. Claus Bek Nielsen must have loved finding pocket kings four-handed, and slyly managed to get all of his chips in the middle, called by the dominant Keys. But he was dominant in more ways than one: he also had pocket aces in a vicious cooler.

Nielsen departed, leaving the Norwegian Kenneth Danielsen to do battle with the Brits.

That didn't last long. He struggled gamely, and pushed Keys off a few pots, but then along came another cooler: A-10 versus A-K. Keys was in unstoppable form as Danielsen became our final Nordic representative to depart.

Throughout all this, Partridge had been playing it steady. He was taking down anything that was on offer while avoiding the major confrontations, and with Keys on his left - and picking up all these monsters - it was an exercise primarily in damage limitation. Heads up was a different story, though. Keys won the first small pot, but after that every pot was big and they all went to Partridge. In chunks of 200,000-odd each, he reeled in the two-to-one deficit and took the lead.

The winning pot was the kind that so often wins major tournaments: it was the first time two big hands went up against each other and all of the chips went in. Partridge's flush faded Keys' full house outs and the two shook hands with customary British understatement and politeness. Even their railbirds didn't know whether to cheer: they really didn't mind who won. "I don't want to look too happy because my friend lost," said Partridge.

But soon champagne was in both of their mitts, and our new champion was crowned.

Read all the action from today on our level-by-level updates. And Swedish might look like utter nonsense, but there's enough of it at our Swedish blog to make you think someone must understand it.

Introduction to the final day
Level 16&17 updates
Level 18&19 updates
Level 20 updates

There's more from the video blog team at PokerStars.tv. And thanks once again, and for the whole week, to Rene Velli, who has provided some excellent photographs.

The next major event we'll be covering at PokerStars blog will be the World Series final table from Las Vegas. Does EasyJet fly to Nevada?

Good night.

This post contains live updates from day three, level 20 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn. It's now final table time.

Blinds: 8,000-16,000 (2,000 ante)

Thomas Partridge wins €76,750 plus $15,000 package to PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
A full wrap of the day to come. Check out the prizewinners page to see who won what.

8.40pm: Game over
Thomas Partridge wins!
James Keys, UK, PokerStars qualifier, out in second winning €48,505
It's all over. There was minimal pre-flop action and Thomas Partridge led out 50,000 on a flop of [3s][qs][2c]. Keys called. The turn came [9s] and then it all kicked off. Partridge bet 120,000, Keys moved all in and Partridge snap-called. He had [ks][5s] for the flush and Keys had turned two pair with his [9h][2h]. Keys had full house outs but the [3h] on the river was not one of them.

8.30pm: One way traffic
Thomas Partridge has been dominating this heads up battle so far and he has just taken another decent pot to put him up to about 2,400,000.

There was 40,000 each in the pot pre-flop, then the cards came: [5s][7c][6s]. Partridge checked, Keys bet 50,000, Partridge made it 175,000 and Keys called. The turn came [10s] and Partridge led out for 175,000. Keys let it go.

8.25pm: Approximate chips
It's now:
Thomas Partridge: 2,100,000
Kames Keys: 900,000 approx

8.20pm: New chip leader
Thomas Partridge has now taken the chip lead when he bet 200,000 on the river, with the board showing [7h][8d][ad][ah][kd]. Partridge had [7d][4d] for the flush and Keys mucked.

8.15pm: Keys being hauled in
Partridge has now taken another big pot in this heads up battle. There was some small action on the flop of [6s][8c][3h] but it was when the [9s] turn came that more money flew in. Partridge checked, Keys bet 105,000 and Partridge called. The river was [3s] and Partridge checked again. Keys bet 280,000 and Partridge called, showing [7h][8s] to take it.

8.05pm: And another
Partridge has taken another one, in what was almost a carbon copy of the last hand. Keys limped and Partridge made it 100,000 more, which Keys called. The flop came [8c][7h][qd] and Partridge bet 100,000, which Keys called. The turn was [3c] and Partridge announced he was all in. Keys let it go.

8pm: Partridge takes one
After James Keys took the first small pot of heads up play, Thomas Partridge took the second, and it was worth a bit more. Partridge made up the big blind and Keys bet about 80,000. Called. The flop came [ah][5s][5h] and Keys check-called a 90,000 bet from Partridge. The turn was [9h] and Keys check-folded when Partridge moved all in.

7.55pm: Heads up
The two Britons from the final table have made it to heads up. Here's what they have at the moment:

James Keys: 2,300,000
Thomas Partridge: 784,000

This post contains live updates from day three, level 20 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn. It's now final table time.

Blinds: 8,000-16,000 (2,000 ante)

Thomas Partridge wins €76,750 plus $15,000 package to PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
A full wrap of the day to come. Check out the prizewinners page to see who won what.

8.40pm: Game over
Thomas Partridge wins!
James Keys, UK, PokerStars qualifier, out in second winning €48,505
It's all over. There was minimal pre-flop action and Thomas Partridge led out 50,000 on a flop of [3s][qs][2c]. Keys called. The turn came [9s] and then it all kicked off. Partridge bet 120,000, Keys moved all in and Partridge snap-called. He had [ks][5s] for the flush and Keys had turned two pair with his [9h][2h]. Keys had full house outs but the [3h] on the river was not one of them.

8.30pm: One way traffic
Thomas Partridge has been dominating this heads up battle so far and he has just taken another decent pot to put him up to about 2,400,000.

There was 40,000 each in the pot pre-flop, then the cards came: [5s][7c][6s]. Partridge checked, Keys bet 50,000, Partridge made it 175,000 and Keys called. The turn came [10s] and Partridge led out for 175,000. Keys let it go.

8.25pm: Approximate chips
It's now:
Thomas Partridge: 2,100,000
Kames Keys: 900,000 approx

8.20pm: New chip leader
Thomas Partridge has now taken the chip lead when he bet 200,000 on the river, with the board showing [7h][8d][ad][ah][kd]. Partridge had [7d][4d] for the flush and Keys mucked.

8.15pm: Keys being hauled in
Partridge has now taken another big pot in this heads up battle. There was some small action on the flop of [6s][8c][3h] but it was when the [9s] turn came that more money flew in. Partridge checked, Keys bet 105,000 and Partridge called. The river was [3s] and Partridge checked again. Keys bet 280,000 and Partridge called, showing [7h][8s] to take it.

8.05pm: And another
Partridge has taken another one, in what was almost a carbon copy of the last hand. Keys limped and Partridge made it 100,000 more, which Keys called. The flop came [8c][7h][qd] and Partridge bet 100,000, which Keys called. The turn was [3c] and Partridge announced he was all in. Keys let it go.

8pm: Partridge takes one
After James Keys took the first small pot of heads up play, Thomas Partridge took the second, and it was worth a bit more. Partridge made up the big blind and Keys bet about 80,000. Called. The flop came [ah][5s][5h] and Keys check-called a 90,000 bet from Partridge. The turn was [9h] and Keys check-folded when Partridge moved all in.

7.55pm: Heads up
The two Britons from the final table have made it to heads up. Here's what they have at the moment:

James Keys: 2,300,000
Thomas Partridge: 784,000

This post contains live updates from day two, levels 18 and 19 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn. It's now final table time.

Blinds:
Level 18: 4,000-8,000 (1,000 ante).
Level 19: 6,000-12,000 (1,000 ante)

7.40pm: Another cooler
Kenneth Danielsen, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, out in third winning €30,085
James Keys has played excellently all week in Tallinn, but even he would admit that he's found some great cards when it mattered late on here. He's now accounted for Kenneth Danielsen, who shoved with [ac][10c] and Keys found [ad][ks]. The board came [as][jd][jc][5s][3s] which was not the miracle ten.

Keys accounts for another one and will now go heads up against his friend and countryman Thomas Partridge.

7.30pm: Strength
James Keys just took some away from the short stack Kenneth Danielsen. It was a peculiar one: the board was [6h][5d][8c] and Danielsen bet 60,000, which Keys called. The turn was [4d] and both players checked, and then it grew strange on the river of [7c]. The board was now showing a straight, and Danielsen bet 140,000. Keys moved all in, which comfortably covered Danielsen, since he only had about 300,000 behind. He folded, to fight another day.

7.20pm: Counts
The approximate three handed counts are as follows:

James Keys: 1,900,000
Thomas Partridge: 850,000
Kenneth Danielsen: 450,000

7.15pm: Ouch
Claus Bek Nielsen, Denmark, out in fourth, winning €17,805
Aces against kings four handed is always going to result in something nasty. They went through the motions -- the raise, the re-raise, the all in, the call -- and it was Claus Bek Nielsen whose [kh][ks] had run headlong into James Keys' [ah][ad]. This one played itself and the board ran out dry. Nielsen is out in fourth and Keys is now runaway chip leader with about 1.9m.

7.10pm: Without further ado...
Michael Fardan, Denmark, out in fifth, winning €14,121
He wasn't going to hang around before getting his chips in, and any ace would do. It was [ac][6c] but James Keys had pocket tens. Another one flopped and Fardan was done.

7.05pm: Biggest pot of the tournament
The two biggest stacks going to the final table were Michael Fardan and James Keys and they have just tangled in a whopper. Fardan opened on the button 30,000 and Keys reraised from the big blind, making it another 42,000. Fardan called. The flop came [5s][ac][3d] and Keys check-called Fardan's bet of 130,000. The turn was [5d], which both of them checked, and the river was [kd]. Keys paused and then bet 180,000. Fardan paused, but then called 180,000 and was shown [as][ks]. He mucked and is down to his last 60,000 or so.

Keys, meanwhile, is up to 1,200,000 after a pot worth more than 700,000.

6.45pm: Partridge accounts for another
Petri Heinanen, Finland, out in sixth, winning €11,665
Petri Heinanen's day is done. Thomas Partridge, and his chip lead, made a late position raise to about 35,000 and was then obliged to put in the extra when Heinanen shoved for about 90,000. Heinanen had [kh][kd] and that was pretty good against Partridge's [ah][10s]. But an ace came on the turn and that was it for Heinanen.

6.35pm: Chips
Here are the six-handed chip counts:

Claus Bek Nielsen - 531,000
Kenneth Danielsen - 395,000
Michael Fardan - 630,000
Thomas Partridge - 717,000
James Keys - 706,000
Petri Heinanen - 102,000

6.33pm: Heinanen doubles
It was the last hand of the level and Heinanen wins it to survive into the next. He had [qc][jd] and he got it all in against Michael Fardan's [ah][5d]. He turned a queen to double up to 102,000, which is still the short stack. But it's a stack at least. A five minute break now.

6.30pm: Heinanen gives it back
Just after doubling up, Petri Heinanen has given most of it away. He and Kenneth Danielsen see a flop of [3d][kh][6d] and Danielsen bets 42,000; Heinanen moves all in and Danielsen calls. Danielsen has [ac][kc], which has Heinanen's [ks][qh] outkicked. There's nothing important on turn or river and Danielsen doubles up. He had about 200,000 before the hand and double that at the end.

6.25pm: Petri dishes out the double up
Petri Heinanen re-raised all in from the small blind after Michael Fardan had opened from mid position. Fardan called, but this time was behind with his [ad][9c] as Heinanen had [as][qs]. The flop gave chop possibilities when it came [7c][js][jh], but the turn [4h] and the river [ks] changed nothing.

6.20pm: Video introduction

Here's how our video blogger introduced today's final table:

6.10pm: Wong out
Jerry Wong, Holland, out in seventh, winning €9,823
He had no choice but to get his last 20,000 in on the button, and both the blinds called. The flop came [6s][qh][4d][3d][qd] and Wong's [jc][5c] was no good. Nielsen's [ac][5s] took it. We lose Wong in two tortuous hands for him.

6.05pm: Nielsen doubles through Wong
Ace cracking time. In a battle of the blinds, Claus Bek Nielsen and Jerry Wong have seen four cards -- [5d][8c][10c][jd] -- when Wong check-raises all in. Nielsen calls and shows [js][8d]; Wong has [ah][as], which are on the verge of being cracked. The river is [2h] and that's enough to send Nielsen past 500,000 and peg Wong back to his last 20,000.

6pm: Down to seven
Johan Nilsson, Sweden, out in eigth, winning €8,288
This one was interesting. Michael Fardan opened for 21,000 and Thomas Partridge, to his left, called. Johan Nilsson moved all in from the big blind, another 140,000, and Fardan counted out the call. The action wasn't done, though. Partridge now moved all in for about 400,000, a damaging amount even for the chip leader to call. Fardan got out the way, and patted himself on the back when the hands were shown:

Nisson: [9d][9s]
Partridge: [ah][as]

The flop came with four spades on it, which gave Partridge the nut flush. Not that he needed it. Nilsson is out, Partridge is our new leader.

5.50pm: Player down
Antti Kärkkäinen, Finland, out in ninth, winning €6,753
We've lost our first one, and it was the birthday boy from Finland Antti Kärkkäinen. He got it all in pre-flop with [7h][7s] and Michael Fardan called with [ah][qd]. That particular hand has been very good to Fardan so far today, and so it continued. The flop came [8c][10h][kh] but it was the [js] on the turn that sealed it. Kärkkäinen, 29 today, now has time to celebrate it.

5.46pm: Must be nice
The first hand of the final table and Michael Fardan opens for 25,000. He has the biggest stack in town. It's folded around to Jerry Wong in the big blind, who folds and shows the mighty [7s][2s]. It's just as well he didn't try anything tricky: Fardan shows pocket kings.

On the next hand, Petri Heinanen opens for 25,000 and Johan Nilsson announces that he's all in on the button. Fold, fold, fold, etc.

5.45pm: Players are back
The nine finalists have returned to their seats and final table play is due to begin. Here's who they are:

Seat 1 : Johan Nilsson, 44, Stockholm, Sweden - PokerStars qualifier - 110,000
With a background in bridge - he was on the board of the biggest bridge club in Europe for 16 years - Nilsson has also played poker for the past four or five years, mainly as a hobby. He works at a bank in Stockholm and he's know by his friends in the bridge community as "the banker" ("bankmannen"). He has two children, aged 16 and 14, and lives with his fiance and her three children. This is only his third live tournament - he has cashed in two of them.

Seat 2 : Jerry Wong, 29, The Hague, Netherlands - 317,000
Wong has been playing poker for three years and calls himself a part time player. He's also a dealer at a local poker club in The Hague in Holland. If he places himself first or second in this tournament, it will be his biggest cash in a live tournament. Wong mostly plays online poker where he then prefers to play cash games. When he plays live, it is usually tournaments.

Seat 3: Claus Bek Nielsen, 31, Copenhagen, Denmark - PokerStars player - 287,000
Nielsen is a well-known figure in the European poker community as he often covers the PokerStars European Poker Tour for the largest online Danish poker news site. Claus's best result to date was a 10th place finish at EPT Warsaw in season four, where he was disappointed to bubble the final table. Nielsen also won a tournament in the Caribbean in January last year for $23,230.

Seat 4: Kenneth Danielsen, 24, Dröbak, Norway - 368,000
Danielsen has played poker for five years but says he only plays it when he has time. He spends the most of his time with his friends traveling around the world. He only play tournaments and mostly online. This is his biggest cash in a tournament so far.

Seat 5: Michael Fardan, 40, Copenhagen, Denmark - 695,000
Fardan is Danish but has been living in Vilnius, Lithuania for the last six years, working as an ex-pat for various companies. He describes himself as a "happy amateur" but for the past three months has been concentrating full time on poker. Like many Danish poker players, Fardan is also a backgammon player and is friends with many well-known figures in the Danish backgammon community such as Gus Hansen, Sander Lylloff and fellow Baltic Festival finalist Claus Bek Nielsen. Two weeks ago Michael became the Lithuanian Omaha Champion; he was the only non-Lithuanian in the tournament.

Seat 6: Thomas Partridge, 24, from Teign Valley, Devon, UK - 465,000
Partridge mainly plays cash games online but he competed at the World Series of Poker this summer, playing the main event and several side events. He cashed once in a $1,500 NHLE event for $6,604. He studied Politics at Warwick University.

Seat 7: James Keys, 24, from Nottingham, UK - 609,000
Keys is one of a group of British poker players who studied at university together, meet up at tournaments in the UK and all came to Tallinn together. Fellow finalist Thomas Partridge is also in the group, along with PokerStars qualifier Rupert Elder and Scott O'Reilly. Keys' best live result to date was his final table appearance at the 2007 WSOPE Main Event in London where he came ninth for £61,540. He also cashed again the following year for £25,340. He also won a deepstack tournament at Dusk Til Dawn in September for £29,981.

Seat 8: Antti Kärkkäinen, 29, Tampere, Finland - 117,000
Kärkkäinen has found a great way to celebrate his 29th birthday by making the final table at the inaugural PokerStars Baltic Festival. This isn't his best result though - he came second in the €1,000 hold 'em/Omaha in the Helsinki Freezeout 2009 in January this year for €37,300. He also has a string of results in other smaller tournaments in Helsinki. Kärkkäinen has been a professional poker player for four years but also still a multi-media student at the University of Technology in Tempere. He said: "I've been a student for nine years now actually. Poker has delayed it a bit."

Seat 9: Petri Heinanen, 33, Helsinki, Finland - 120,000
Originally from Tampere in Finland, Heinanen now lives in Helsinki. He spent 15 years as a professional footballer before injuries forced him out of the game - allowing him to turn to poker, which has been his main income for three years. This is his biggest live tournament cash but he has also has some deep finishes online. He normally plays pot limit Omaha cash games and no limit Texas hold 'em tournaments. Petri's identical twin brother Pasi also competed in the main event.

5.15pm: Here's your final table chip leader

Final table chips

Here's how they will line up at the final table:

Seat 1 - Johan Nilsson, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, 110,000
Seat 2 - Jerry Wong, Netherlands, 317,000
Seat 3 - Claus Bek Nielsen, Denmark, PokerStars player, 287,000
Seat 4 - Kenneth Danielsen, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, 368,000
Seat 5 - Michael Fardan, Denmark, 695,000
Seat 6 - Thomas Partridge, UK, 465,000
Seat 7 - James Keys, UK, 609,000
Seat 8 - Antti Kärkkäinen, Finland, 117,000
Seat 9 - Petri Heinanen, Finland, 118,000

4.45pm: Dinner
Not unreasonably, they're taking a 45 minute break before the final table starts. That'll give us a chance to gather our thoughts, not to mention the biographies and chip counts.

Here's a quick video, which you can watch 17 times to while away the next 45 mins.

4.40pm: And...out! Final table time
Just like that, we're down to nine Again Michael Fardan was the player doing the assassinating as Matias Knaapinen's charge comes to an end. The short stack over night, he had double up at least twice, but was caught out when he pushed pre-flop with [ks][9s]. Fardan found [ad][qs] and the board ran [6d][10d][4s][10s][2h], which sent Knaapinen to the rail and Fardan to the final table. He'll be joined there by Keys, Partridge, Danielsen, Wong, Nielsen and Heinanen. Their starting final table stacks are being counted now.

4.35pm: Out! Out!
Within the first couple of hands of the restart, two players are all in, there are two calls, and two players are out. There's one on each table: Peeter Grunthal has [kh][jd] and he's in trouble against Claus Nielsen's [ac][ks]. The board gives him no help at all, and an ace rivers to give the pot to Nielsen and send Grunthal out.

At the same time on the other table, Einar Olafsson moves all in from the small blind and is called by Michael Fardan in the big. Fardan has [kh][9h] and it's better than Olafsson's [jd][10d]. Although the Icelandic player picked up a flush draw on the [ad][ac][4c][7d] board, it missed when the [7h] rivered.

We are down to 10.

4.30pm: Chips
There's been a massive amount of to-ing and fro-ing in that last level. How it affected the chip counts can best be seen by looking at the chip count page. Sneak preview: James Keys is still the leader.

4.25pm: Back
There are 12 players remaining, and we're now playing level 18. Here's a video to keep you occupied before the action gets going properly again.

This post contains live updates from day two, levels 18 and 19 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn. It's now final table time.

Blinds:
Level 18: 4,000-8,000 (1,000 ante).
Level 19: 6,000-12,000 (1,000 ante)

7.40pm: Another cooler
Kenneth Danielsen, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, out in third winning €30,085
James Keys has played excellently all week in Tallinn, but even he would admit that he's found some great cards when it mattered late on here. He's now accounted for Kenneth Danielsen, who shoved with [ac][10c] and Keys found [ad][ks]. The board came [as][jd][jc][5s][3s] which was not the miracle ten.

Keys accounts for another one and will now go heads up against his friend and countryman Thomas Partridge.

7.30pm: Strength
James Keys just took some away from the short stack Kenneth Danielsen. It was a peculiar one: the board was [6h][5d][8c] and Danielsen bet 60,000, which Keys called. The turn was [4d] and both players checked, and then it grew strange on the river of [7c]. The board was now showing a straight, and Danielsen bet 140,000. Keys moved all in, which comfortably covered Danielsen, since he only had about 300,000 behind. He folded, to fight another day.

7.20pm: Counts
The approximate three handed counts are as follows:

James Keys: 1,900,000
Thomas Partridge: 850,000
Kenneth Danielsen: 450,000

7.15pm: Ouch
Claus Bek Nielsen, Denmark, out in fourth, winning €17,805
Aces against kings four handed is always going to result in something nasty. They went through the motions -- the raise, the re-raise, the all in, the call -- and it was Claus Bek Nielsen whose [kh][ks] had run headlong into James Keys' [ah][ad]. This one played itself and the board ran out dry. Nielsen is out in fourth and Keys is now runaway chip leader with about 1.9m.

7.10pm: Without further ado...
Michael Fardan, Denmark, out in fifth, winning €14,121
He wasn't going to hang around before getting his chips in, and any ace would do. It was [ac][6c] but James Keys had pocket tens. Another one flopped and Fardan was done.

7.05pm: Biggest pot of the tournament
The two biggest stacks going to the final table were Michael Fardan and James Keys and they have just tangled in a whopper. Fardan opened on the button 30,000 and Keys reraised from the big blind, making it another 42,000. Fardan called. The flop came [5s][ac][3d] and Keys check-called Fardan's bet of 130,000. The turn was [5d], which both of them checked, and the river was [kd]. Keys paused and then bet 180,000. Fardan paused, but then called 180,000 and was shown [as][ks]. He mucked and is down to his last 60,000 or so.

Keys, meanwhile, is up to 1,200,000 after a pot worth more than 700,000.

6.45pm: Partridge accounts for another
Petri Heinanen, Finland, out in sixth, winning €11,665
Petri Heinanen's day is done. Thomas Partridge, and his chip lead, made a late position raise to about 35,000 and was then obliged to put in the extra when Heinanen shoved for about 90,000. Heinanen had [kh][kd] and that was pretty good against Partridge's [ah][10s]. But an ace came on the turn and that was it for Heinanen.

6.35pm: Chips
Here are the six-handed chip counts:

Claus Bek Nielsen - 531,000
Kenneth Danielsen - 395,000
Michael Fardan - 630,000
Thomas Partridge - 717,000
James Keys - 706,000
Petri Heinanen - 102,000

6.33pm: Heinanen doubles
It was the last hand of the level and Heinanen wins it to survive into the next. He had [qc][jd] and he got it all in against Michael Fardan's [ah][5d]. He turned a queen to double up to 102,000, which is still the short stack. But it's a stack at least. A five minute break now.

6.30pm: Heinanen gives it back
Just after doubling up, Petri Heinanen has given most of it away. He and Kenneth Danielsen see a flop of [3d][kh][6d] and Danielsen bets 42,000; Heinanen moves all in and Danielsen calls. Danielsen has [ac][kc], which has Heinanen's [ks][qh] outkicked. There's nothing important on turn or river and Danielsen doubles up. He had about 200,000 before the hand and double that at the end.

6.25pm: Petri dishes out the double up
Petri Heinanen re-raised all in from the small blind after Michael Fardan had opened from mid position. Fardan called, but this time was behind with his [ad][9c] as Heinanen had [as][qs]. The flop gave chop possibilities when it came [7c][js][jh], but the turn [4h] and the river [ks] changed nothing.

6.20pm: Video introduction

Here's how our video blogger introduced today's final table:

6.10pm: Wong out
Jerry Wong, Holland, out in seventh, winning €9,823
He had no choice but to get his last 20,000 in on the button, and both the blinds called. The flop came [6s][qh][4d][3d][qd] and Wong's [jc][5c] was no good. Nielsen's [ac][5s] took it. We lose Wong in two tortuous hands for him.

6.05pm: Nielsen doubles through Wong
Ace cracking time. In a battle of the blinds, Claus Bek Nielsen and Jerry Wong have seen four cards -- [5d][8c][10c][jd] -- when Wong check-raises all in. Nielsen calls and shows [js][8d]; Wong has [ah][as], which are on the verge of being cracked. The river is [2h] and that's enough to send Nielsen past 500,000 and peg Wong back to his last 20,000.

6pm: Down to seven
Johan Nilsson, Sweden, out in eigth, winning €8,288
This one was interesting. Michael Fardan opened for 21,000 and Thomas Partridge, to his left, called. Johan Nilsson moved all in from the big blind, another 140,000, and Fardan counted out the call. The action wasn't done, though. Partridge now moved all in for about 400,000, a damaging amount even for the chip leader to call. Fardan got out the way, and patted himself on the back when the hands were shown:

Nisson: [9d][9s]
Partridge: [ah][as]

The flop came with four spades on it, which gave Partridge the nut flush. Not that he needed it. Nilsson is out, Partridge is our new leader.

5.50pm: Player down
Antti Kärkkäinen, Finland, out in ninth, winning €6,753
We've lost our first one, and it was the birthday boy from Finland Antti Kärkkäinen. He got it all in pre-flop with [7h][7s] and Michael Fardan called with [ah][qd]. That particular hand has been very good to Fardan so far today, and so it continued. The flop came [8c][10h][kh] but it was the [js] on the turn that sealed it. Kärkkäinen, 29 today, now has time to celebrate it.

5.46pm: Must be nice
The first hand of the final table and Michael Fardan opens for 25,000. He has the biggest stack in town. It's folded around to Jerry Wong in the big blind, who folds and shows the mighty [7s][2s]. It's just as well he didn't try anything tricky: Fardan shows pocket kings.

On the next hand, Petri Heinanen opens for 25,000 and Johan Nilsson announces that he's all in on the button. Fold, fold, fold, etc.

5.45pm: Players are back
The nine finalists have returned to their seats and final table play is due to begin. Here's who they are:

Seat 1 : Johan Nilsson, 44, Stockholm, Sweden - PokerStars qualifier - 110,000
With a background in bridge - he was on the board of the biggest bridge club in Europe for 16 years - Nilsson has also played poker for the past four or five years, mainly as a hobby. He works at a bank in Stockholm and he's know by his friends in the bridge community as "the banker" ("bankmannen"). He has two children, aged 16 and 14, and lives with his fiance and her three children. This is only his third live tournament - he has cashed in two of them.

Seat 2 : Jerry Wong, 29, The Hague, Netherlands - 317,000
Wong has been playing poker for three years and calls himself a part time player. He's also a dealer at a local poker club in The Hague in Holland. If he places himself first or second in this tournament, it will be his biggest cash in a live tournament. Wong mostly plays online poker where he then prefers to play cash games. When he plays live, it is usually tournaments.

Seat 3: Claus Bek Nielsen, 31, Copenhagen, Denmark - PokerStars player - 287,000
Nielsen is a well-known figure in the European poker community as he often covers the PokerStars European Poker Tour for the largest online Danish poker news site. Claus's best result to date was a 10th place finish at EPT Warsaw in season four, where he was disappointed to bubble the final table. Nielsen also won a tournament in the Caribbean in January last year for $23,230.

Seat 4: Kenneth Danielsen, 24, Dröbak, Norway - 368,000
Danielsen has played poker for five years but says he only plays it when he has time. He spends the most of his time with his friends traveling around the world. He only play tournaments and mostly online. This is his biggest cash in a tournament so far.

Seat 5: Michael Fardan, 40, Copenhagen, Denmark - 695,000
Fardan is Danish but has been living in Vilnius, Lithuania for the last six years, working as an ex-pat for various companies. He describes himself as a "happy amateur" but for the past three months has been concentrating full time on poker. Like many Danish poker players, Fardan is also a backgammon player and is friends with many well-known figures in the Danish backgammon community such as Gus Hansen, Sander Lylloff and fellow Baltic Festival finalist Claus Bek Nielsen. Two weeks ago Michael became the Lithuanian Omaha Champion; he was the only non-Lithuanian in the tournament.

Seat 6: Thomas Partridge, 24, from Teign Valley, Devon, UK - 465,000
Partridge mainly plays cash games online but he competed at the World Series of Poker this summer, playing the main event and several side events. He cashed once in a $1,500 NHLE event for $6,604. He studied Politics at Warwick University.

Seat 7: James Keys, 24, from Nottingham, UK - 609,000
Keys is one of a group of British poker players who studied at university together, meet up at tournaments in the UK and all came to Tallinn together. Fellow finalist Thomas Partridge is also in the group, along with PokerStars qualifier Rupert Elder and Scott O'Reilly. Keys' best live result to date was his final table appearance at the 2007 WSOPE Main Event in London where he came ninth for £61,540. He also cashed again the following year for £25,340. He also won a deepstack tournament at Dusk Til Dawn in September for £29,981.

Seat 8: Antti Kärkkäinen, 29, Tampere, Finland - 117,000
Kärkkäinen has found a great way to celebrate his 29th birthday by making the final table at the inaugural PokerStars Baltic Festival. This isn't his best result though - he came second in the €1,000 hold 'em/Omaha in the Helsinki Freezeout 2009 in January this year for €37,300. He also has a string of results in other smaller tournaments in Helsinki. Kärkkäinen has been a professional poker player for four years but also still a multi-media student at the University of Technology in Tempere. He said: "I've been a student for nine years now actually. Poker has delayed it a bit."

Seat 9: Petri Heinanen, 33, Helsinki, Finland - 120,000
Originally from Tampere in Finland, Heinanen now lives in Helsinki. He spent 15 years as a professional footballer before injuries forced him out of the game - allowing him to turn to poker, which has been his main income for three years. This is his biggest live tournament cash but he has also has some deep finishes online. He normally plays pot limit Omaha cash games and no limit Texas hold 'em tournaments. Petri's identical twin brother Pasi also competed in the main event.

5.15pm: Here's your final table chip leader

Final table chips

Here's how they will line up at the final table:

Seat 1 - Johan Nilsson, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, 110,000
Seat 2 - Jerry Wong, Netherlands, 317,000
Seat 3 - Claus Bek Nielsen, Denmark, PokerStars player, 287,000
Seat 4 - Kenneth Danielsen, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, 368,000
Seat 5 - Michael Fardan, Denmark, 695,000
Seat 6 - Thomas Partridge, UK, 465,000
Seat 7 - James Keys, UK, 609,000
Seat 8 - Antti Kärkkäinen, Finland, 117,000
Seat 9 - Petri Heinanen, Finland, 118,000

4.45pm: Dinner
Not unreasonably, they're taking a 45 minute break before the final table starts. That'll give us a chance to gather our thoughts, not to mention the biographies and chip counts.

Here's a quick video, which you can watch 17 times to while away the next 45 mins.

4.40pm: And...out! Final table time
Just like that, we're down to nine Again Michael Fardan was the player doing the assassinating as Matias Knaapinen's charge comes to an end. The short stack over night, he had double up at least twice, but was caught out when he pushed pre-flop with [ks][9s]. Fardan found [ad][qs] and the board ran [6d][10d][4s][10s][2h], which sent Knaapinen to the rail and Fardan to the final table. He'll be joined there by Keys, Partridge, Danielsen, Wong, Nielsen and Heinanen. Their starting final table stacks are being counted now.

4.35pm: Out! Out!
Within the first couple of hands of the restart, two players are all in, there are two calls, and two players are out. There's one on each table: Peeter Grunthal has [kh][jd] and he's in trouble against Claus Nielsen's [ac][ks]. The board gives him no help at all, and an ace rivers to give the pot to Nielsen and send Grunthal out.

At the same time on the other table, Einar Olafsson moves all in from the small blind and is called by Michael Fardan in the big. Fardan has [kh][9h] and it's better than Olafsson's [jd][10d]. Although the Icelandic player picked up a flush draw on the [ad][ac][4c][7d] board, it missed when the [7h] rivered.

We are down to 10.

4.30pm: Chips
There's been a massive amount of to-ing and fro-ing in that last level. How it affected the chip counts can best be seen by looking at the chip count page. Sneak preview: James Keys is still the leader.

4.25pm: Back
There are 12 players remaining, and we're now playing level 18. Here's a video to keep you occupied before the action gets going properly again.

This post contains live updates from day two, levels 16 and 17 of the PokerStars Baltic Festival in Tallinn.

Blinds:
Level 16: 2,500-5,000 (500 ante).
Level 17: 3,000-6,000 (500 ante)

4.10pm: Level over
That's the end of that level. There's a chip count and a chip race now going on. The details will be on the chip count page.

4.10pm: Priit Plakk unstuck
The Estonian player Priit Plakk got it all in against James Keys, with the Brit comfortably covering the home hope. Keys had [9s][9h] and Plakk had [ah][qs] and they were racing. Plakk's chances got slimmer and slimmer as flop and turn came [10s][6s][6d][3d] and the [9c] on the river added insult to injury. Keys stacks up another 80,000-odd and Plakk is gone.

4.05pm: Another one out
Jerry Wong has just accounted for Patrik Kaltrud when the Norwegian was all in for his last 110,000 behind [ad][6d] and Wong called with [5h][5s]. The board gave no help - [qc][9h][3d][7s][8h] - and Kaltrud is out in 14th. We have about 10 minutes left in this level, with 13 players. The full counts are coming at the end of the level.

4pm: Tapinas done
And that's that for Tapinas. He moved all in for his last 25,000 with [8s][3c]. Peeter Grunthal called with [kh][2s] and that stayed good on a dry board. Andrius Tapinas is our 15th placed finisher.

3.55pm: Double up for Danielsen
It's been a terrible few minutes for Andrius Tapinas, who has now doubled up Kenneth Danielsen and is left as the tournament short stack. Tapinas flopped top-pair tens with his J-10, but Danielsen had pocket jacks, which stayed good. Tapinas is down to the felt, while Danielsen is something close to 300,000.

3.45pm: Worst hand wins
Andrius Tapinas has just doubled up Antti Karkkainen, all in pre-flop. Tapinas was in good shape with [ah][qd] against Karkkainen's [ad][jd] but a jack flopped and stayed ahead. That's a pot worth about 150,000. The full chip counts will be with us at the end of this level, in about 20 minutes time.

3.40pm: Action on both tables
Matias Knaapinen raised to 14,500 from the cut off and Einar Olafsson moved all in from the small blind. It was about 100,000 total and Knaapinen folded. On the other tables, James Keys, Claus Bec Nielsen and Petri Heinanen got all the way to the river on a double-paired board - queens and fours. Heinanen and Keys both had aces and they might have thought that was good, but Nielsen had pocket kings, which were good.

3.30pm: Kaltrud breathing again
Patrik Kaltrud is back with close to 100,000 after his pocket tens held up against Michael Fardan's [jc][qs]. There were three clubs on the board by the turn and so Fardan had a flush draw and two overcards by the time the river was dealt. But that was a harmless [2d] and Kaltrud doubled.

3.20pm: Another double up for Knaapinen
Matias Knaapinen is now stacking up about 200,000 chips after doubling through Einar Olafsson. Knaapinen was in the big blind and saw a flop with Olafsson and Michael Fardan. It came: [10s][3h][5c] and Knaapinen checked, then Olafsson bet 20,5000 and Fardan folded. Knaapinen moved all in, for another 58,000, and Olafsson called. The Icelandic player had [as][ks] and was behind Knaapinen's [10c][2c]. By the time the turn came [2d], the hand was over. And the [10h] on the river to fill the boat was just rubbing it in.

3.05pm: Level up
That was the last action of that level and we move seemlessly into the next. It's level 17, where the blinds are 3,000 - 6,000 and the ante 500. There are 15 players left.

3.05pm: Leibold departs in 16th
Imre Leibold had plenty of outs when he got it all in on a board of [10s][8d][7s][4d] with [as][8s]. He was up against a big hand and a bigger stack: Michael Fardan had [5s][6s], the straight, and had Leibold well covered. The river was [6c], which did not fill the flush and Leibold was out. The all in was about 145,000, which gets added to Fardan's stack, and puts him in the chip lead.

3pm: Tapinas muscle
Andrius Tapinas is throwing his weight around. He raised to 12,000 in the cut off and picked up both blinds as callers: Peeter Grunthal and Kenneth Danielsen. The flop came [kc][4h][8s] and Grunthal checked, but Danielsen bet 14,500. Tapinas re-raised to 39,000 and that was more than enough for both of the others.

2.45pm: Nielsen takes on Keys
Claus Nielsen raised to 12,500 from under-the-gun and picked up two callers: James Keys in mid position and Antti Karkkainen in the big blind. The flop came [as][qh][3d] and after Karkkainen checked, Nielsen put out the continuation bet of 21,000. Keys called by Karkkainen folded. The turn was [6d] and Nielsen remained aggressive, making it another 36,000. Keys folded.

On the other table, Matias Knaapinen was all in again, this time re-raising Michael Fadan's 12,000 opener. Fardan thought better of it and let it go.

2.30pm: Double up for Matias Knaapinen
The overnight short-stack Matias Knaapinen has doubled up. He moved in a couple of times and got no takers, and then Patrik Kaltrud finally took the bait. Kaltrud had [kh][qh] and Knaapinen [ac][3s] and the board bricked all the way, taking Knaapinen past 100,000.

2.25pm: Natasha Ellis out in 17th
Natasha Ellis didn't have much option but to shove with pocket eights. Johan Nilsson called with [qc][jc] and although the flop was blank: [7s][kd][3d], and killer [jh] came on the turn and Ellis was ousted in 17th. She earns €3,070 (47,892 EEK).

2.20pm: Double up
Peeter Grunthal earns the first double up of the day, when his pocket tens flop a set to better Antti Karkkainen. Grunthal earns some breathing space.

2.15pm: Play under way
Play gets under way with the 17 players on two tables. The first two three bets pick up pots on each table: Imre Leibold re-raising Patrik Kaltrund and Einar Olafsson re-raised by Michael Fardan. Good enough.

Good afternoon, good morning, good everything and welcome to the final chapter in the first book of the PokerStars Baltic Poker Festival.

It's the last day of what has been a terrific week: 307 players parted with €1,000 apiece (or the online qualification equivalent) to take their place in the Main Event in Tallinn, and now only 17 remain. Today we will play to a winner, who will earn €76,750 from their Estonian sojourn, and will become the inaugural Baltic Festival champion. Wowsers.

Let's start with a run through of your runners and riders, listed in order of chips:

James Keys, UK, 442,000
Michael Fardan, Denmark , 373,000
Thomas Partridge, UK, 350,000
Andrius Tapinas, Lithuania, 262,000
Johan Nilsson, Sweden, 222,500
Antti Karkkainen, Finland, 198,500
Claus Bek Nielsen, Denmark, 170,000
Imre Leibold, Estonia, 157,000
Kenneth Danielsen, Norway, 152,500
Einar Olafsson, Iceland, 125,500
Patrik Kaltrud, Norway, 123,000
Yet San Wong, Netherlands, 111,500
Petri Heinanen , Finland, 110,000
Priit Plakk Estonia, 88,000
Peeter Grunthal, Estonia, 76,000
Natasha Ellis, UK, 71,000
Matias Knaapinen, Finland, 53,500

Even the least observant is going to notice a considerable northern European flavour to that line-up. Anyone from further afield has been sent packing, leaving the Brits to scrap it out with the Nordics, and a decent smattering of local players.

On the first day here, Imre Leibold was mentioned as being the hottest prospect in Estonian poker, and he's lived up to the billing, cruising to the final day. Meanwhile Andrius Tapinas is widely considered to be the best Lithuanian tournament player. He is a television presenter by day (poker shows, obviously) and a poker player by night (PokerStars, obviously, where he is a SuperNova) and he has steadily and stealthily worked his way to the top handful too.

We will start today at the beginning of level 17, where the blinds are 2,500-5,000 (500 ante) meaning that there's still plenty of play, even if it's going to be frantic stuff for the shorter stacks. We'll keep track of all the major pots and eliminations on the main blog pages, the prizewinners will be on the prizewinners' page, and the full official chip counts will be on the chip count page, updated in full every two levels.

Ordinarily at major poker tournaments, we say something like: "The only place to follow all the action is right here on PokerStars blog", and there's something slightly metaphorical about the claim. But here in the Baltics, PokerStars blog is quite literally the only place you can follow the action. So stand by.

It's a thankless task following British poker players at major international tournaments across the world. Sure, there have been the occasional triumph, but more often than not it's a story of so near and yet so far. No one told us - no one even hinted - that all we had to do was come to the Baltics.

For it's here, in the Main Event of the inaugural PokerStars Baltic Festival, that James Keys, a Briton, is the chip leader going into the final day; Thomas Partridge, a Briton, is third in chips; and Natasha Ellis, a Briton, is also still among the final 17 players still standing. Britannia rules the day!

Day two proper began at noon in Tallinn with 121 players still in the hunt and only 32 places in the money. We were thinking we might be here all night as the loose target was to play down close to a final table. But as is so often the case, the pace was rapid from the off. Ten, twenty, thirty players departed, and suddenly the bubble was in sight.

That's when it got cruel. It always gets cruel, but try telling Katja Thater that. She one one of the big stacks at that stage, and she had pocket kings all in pre-flop against Keys' pocket jacks. Then: bing! A jack on the flop, Thater was out, and Keys cruised into a lead that he never relinquished.

The bubble burst when Michael Fardan also cracked pocket kings. This time they were in the hand of Christian Schneider and it was a battle of the blinds on the bubble. Eeeeew. Fardan had A-Q and turned an ace, which sent Scheider back to Austria penniless and the rest of them into the money.

One of the remaining few was the Team PokerStars Pro and World Champion Peter Eastgate. This is the last tournament he will play before traveling to Vegas next week to hand his world crown over to the latest victor from the November Nine.

Although the €2,455 Eastgate picked up for 23rd place (he ran into the straight of Johan Nilsson to end his participation here) will qualify as the most "min" of "min-cashes" for the nine million dollar man, this year has been sensational for Eastgate. Among other successes, he won a side event at the PCA, finished second at EPT London, and capped the year with another deep run. A more than worthy world champion.

Tomorrow, though, we will play down to that winner. Unlocking Keys will be the target. Can anyone go father than Fardan? Or will Partridge pick off the pear pair of them. Enough. I'm going to bed.

Full chip counts are on the chip-count page. Take a look back on the day as it unfolded with our level-by-level updates, the links to which are below. Or read it all in Swedish, if you're a masochist. Video blogs are available at PokerStars.tv, and thanks again to Rene Velli's trigger finger.

Day two introduction
Levels 9&10 updates
Levels 11&12 updates
Levels 13&14 updates
Levels 15&16 updates

Play resumes at 2pm. Be sure to join us.