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Naujokas Takes the Crown as Kings of Tallinn Ends With a €104K Main Event Win
- Grantas Naujokas won the €1,100 Main Event for €104,310, topping a 607-entry field.
- Johan Creutz rebounded from a Main Event exit to claim the €3,000 High Roller title.
- Noah Rogers secured two trophies, including the €555 Championship, during the festival.
By the time the last tables were cleared at Olympic Park on Sunday evening, Kings of Tallinn had put in ten days producing winners from across Northern Europe, even though the largest prize of the Autumn Edition was heading down south to Lithuania.
Grantas Naujokas had been impossible to dislodge once the €1,100 Main Event moved into its later stages, and although the final table contained nine players from six countries, Naujokas managed to carry his lead through to the finish.
His €104,310 victory closed a festival that ran from October 9-18 and ultimately produced 45 tournament champions, with the Main Event alone accounting for more than half a million euros in prizes.
PokerWired gathered all the best stories behind the 2026 Autumn Edition in one place, so here we go.
Naujokas Takes his Main Event Lead to a €104,310 Payday
Naujokas didn't arrive at the final table with a big stack and a fool's hope it would last him the day. By the end of Day 2, when 64 players remained from the original 607 entries, Naujokas had moved to the front with 909,000 chips; another full day later, that stack had grown to 5.215 million, almost 1.6 million more than his nearest challenger.
That put the Lithuanian in control going into Sunday, although Krisjanis Balodis made sure the final stretch was not a walk in the park for anyone. The Latvian began the final table with only 715,000, the second-shortest stack of the nine, yet worked his way all the way into heads-up play before eventually settling for €71,400.
Norway's Samuel Adnoy finished third for €47,850, while Iryna Tsikhanskaya added another Lithuanian flag near the top of the standings with €33,600 for fourth.
The final field of 607 entries generated €564,510, clearing the original €500,000 guarantee, while 79 players cashing out. Naujokas' €104,310 prize from last week was comfortably the largest recorded live result of his career to date.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grantas Naujokas | Lithuania | €104,310 |
| 2 | Krisjanis Balodis | Latvia | €71,400 |
| 3 | Samuel Adnoy | Norway | €47,850 |
| 4 | Iryna Tsikhanskaya | Lithuania | €33,600 |
| 5 | Juhani Ville Hassi | Finland | €25,350 |
The field had also contained one of the festival's biggest attractions in five-time WSOP bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen. He made the money and survived a tense bubble before his run ended on Day 3, while former Kings of Tallinn champion Johan Creutz lasted considerably longer, eventually falling in 14th for €6,200.
Why are we mentioning that titbit of information about Creutz, you may ask. Because Creutz was not finished with the festival just yet.
How Creutz Turns a Main Event Exit Into a High Roller Title
A day after his Main Event run ended, Johan Creutz was back sitting at a final table, having moved into the €3,000 NLH High Roller that would eventually come to draw 40 entries and build a €106,400 prize pool.
The Swede started Sunday's five-handed finale fourth in chips, behind Mikael Haapaniemi, Mark Metsla and Pasi Laihinen, but by late afternoon none of them remained in his way. Creutz collected €38,550 for the victory, and an upgraded Kings of Tallinn trophy exactly a decade after he won the festival's Main Event in 2016.
His week had already included the €6,200 Main Event cash and a runner-up finish in a €555 NLH side event for €3,780, so the High Roller win really turned what was already a decent festival into one of the more complete individual performances of this Autumn edition.
Noah Rogers Started With 16 Big Blinds and Walked Away With a Trophy — Again
If Creutz was the player who saved his best for last, Norway's Noah Rogers decided to be the one to set the tone.
Rogers reached the final day of the €555 Kings of Tallinn Championship seventh among 16 remaining players, holding 640,000 chips, around 16 big blinds, while Sweden's Dennis Zetterman led with more than twice that amount.
Rogers gradually worked his way through the final table, eventually meeting Estonia's Alger Pissarev heads-up after eliminating Zetterman in third. Their heads-up match swung in both directions before Rogers finally closed it out, earning €30,005 from a 319-entry field and €148,335 prize pool.
With all that drama, this wasn't even his first trophy of the week. Three days earlier, the 21-year-old won the €200 NLH Turbo for €1,868, meaning this Championship victory made him one of just a handful of double winners during this Autumn Edition.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah Rogers | Norway | €30,005 |
| 2 | Alger Pissarev | Estonia | €20,290 |
| 3 | Dennis Zetterman | Sweden | €14,830 |
| 4 | Marek Zigel | Lithuania | €11,130 |
| 5 | Ben Devers | Belgium | €7,930 |
Chalkiotis Gets the Festival Moving in the Mini-Main
Before the Main Event tables were even in play, one of the festival's largest fields had already assembled.
The €250 Mini-Main attracted 555 entries and put €113,553 into the prize pool, with Greece's Emmanouil Chalkiotis eventually reaching heads-up play against Estonia's Simo Saarniit. The pair made the tough call and agreed a deal before playing on for the trophy, which left Chalkiotis with €19,875 after he finished the job.
This wasn't one of those rags to riches stories of an unknown player suddenly appearing from nowhere. Chalkiotis had already accumulated close to $700,000 in recorded live earnings, including a 2025 Mystery Siege of Malta victory and several deep finishes earlier in 2026.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emmanouil Chalkiotis | Greece | €19,875* |
| 2 | Simo Saarniit | Estonia | €16,618* |
| 3 | Ranel Käsi | Estonia | €10,160 |
| 4 | Casper Jensen | Denmark | €7,480 |
| 5 | Oskar Ojaveer | Estonia | €5,480 |
*Heads-up deal.
Between Chalkiotis' 555-entry opener, Rogers turning a short final-day stack into his second trophy and Creutz rebounding immediately from his Main Event exit, this Autumn Edition again had plenty to give us outside the headliner.
That said, Naujokas was the player left holding the biggest trophy when those ten days finally came to an end.
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