Saturday was full of action with a plethora of side events as the 2024 Coolbet Open €550 Main Event took center stage under the lights and cameras at the Chesterfield Poker Club and the Nordic Hotel Forum. Norway’s Anders Bjorkheim joined the Coolbet Open history books with a commanding performance, which included defeating Finland’s Keimo Suominen heads-up to win the trophy and the €50,000 top prize in front of a live-streamed audience on The Coolbet Open website and social media channels. 

It was a dominating final table performance for Bjorkheim, to say the least, after going nearly wire-to-wire at the final table and eliminating each of his opponents single-handed after assuming control within the opening moments.

The Main Event proved to be popular at its new home at the Chesterfield Poker Club, with 504 entries, including more than 150 players who qualified online at Coolbet Poker. The €244,620 prize pool was shared by the top 62 players going home with at least a €1,000 min-cash. 

2024 Coolbet Open Main Event Final Table Payouts

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Anders Bjorkheim	Norway	€50,000
2	Keimo Suominen	Finland	€30,550
3	Seyed Tabaei	Sweden	€22,000
4	Andre Mägi	Estonia	€17,500
5	Vadim Guk	Estonia	€13,550
6	Einar Thorolfsson	Iceland	€10,300
7	Esko Brandt	Estonia	€7,775
8	Kaido Mikk	Estonia	€5,800
9	Taavi Pusa	Estonia	€4,665

 

 2024 Coolbet Open Main Event Final Day Action

 

 The final day began with 27 hopefuls in the hunt for the title with Bjorkheim near the top of the leaderboard in eighth place. He eliminated the first three players of the day before beginning the final table in the middle of the pack with runner-up Suominen starting the action as the table captain. 

Estonia’s Vadim Guk snagged the chip lead straight out of the gate before Bjorkheim assumed control after his jack-ten suited got there against ace-eight suited to eliminate Estonia’s Taavi Pusa in ninth place for €4,665. 

Bjorkheim’s dominance continued as he eliminated two more players from the home country of Estonia. After the 2022 Coolbet Open champion Kaido Mikk dusted off his small blind stack with queens against king-eight to exit in eighth place for €5,800, Bjorkheim’s sevens crushed deuces to send Esko Brandt to the cashier in seventh place for €7,755. 

The hopes for a player from Iceland to win its first Coolbet Open Main Event title were dashed on a bad beat after Einar Thorolfsson got it in good with jacks against Bjorkheim’s ace-five suited only to hit the rail in sixth place for €10,300. 

Estonia had five players advance to the final table. Bjorkheim saw to it that none of them advanced beyond fourth place after his domination nation continued after first eliminating Vadim Guk (fifth €13,550) with ace-nine against king-ten after getting Souminen to fold the better hand. Andre Magi (fourth - €17,500) was the next victim on a bad beat after his ace-queen didn’t hold against ace-seven.

Bjorkheim began three-handed play with approximately triple the stacks of both his opponents combined. It appeared momentum might be shifting with both Suominen and Sweden’s Seyed Tabaei chipping up to nearly even the stacks. 

However, a fire ignited under Bjorkheim, who went on a tear to regain the chips he had lost since the start of the three-handed play. Shortly after, lady luck was on the winner’s side as the short-stacked Seyed got his stack in with nines on a jack-jack-deuce board only to get two outed with a deuce on the river after Bjorkheim was priced in with king-deuce. 

Bjorkheim began the heads-up action with a 6:1 chip advantage over Suominen. The duo took a customary heads-up break and the action didn’t last long after that. Suominen jammed the button for about a dozen big blinds with queen-ten and settled for the healthy runner-up prize of €30,550 after he was unable to improve against Bjorkheim’s call with ace-deuce.

Special thanks to Christian Zetzsche for reporting the action at PokerNews, and a massive congrats to Anders Bjorkheim for his epic Coolbet Open Main Event victory.

 Meanwhile, players can enjoy a faster Main Event experience with Sunday’s schedule boasting a single event in the €150 Hyper Turbo Version of the Main Event to close out the 2024 Coolbet Open. 

Coolbet Open Main Event Champions 

 

 

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	Anders Bjorkheim	Norway	€50,000