William Thorson Wins PokerStars Baltic Festival

Team PokerStars Pro William Thorson has won the PokerStars Baltic Poker Festival main event in Tallinn, Estonia taking down approximately €80,823 for his victory in the 222-strng field.

The 27-year-old Swede, who has made four European Poker Tour final tables but never won, beat Dominykas Karmazinas heads up in the €1,400 buy in main event when his J-J stayed in front of the Lithuanuan’s 2-2.

“I’ve been waiting for this so long. I’m so happy you just can’t imagine it,” said an emotional Thorson. “This means so much to me. It’s unbelievable. I really wanted this title.”

Thorson also won a €6,000 package to PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn which kicks off season seven of the famed tour in August.

The final table payouts were (approximate after conversion to euro):

1: William Thorson (Sweden) — €80,823
2: Dominykas Karmazinas (Lithuania) — €49,737
3: Miikka Anttonen (Finland) — €31,086
4: Marius Maciukas (Lithuania) — €18,651
5: Mikael Jonsson (Sweden) — €15,543
6: Janne Johansson (Finland) — €12,434
7: Tarmo Tael (Estonia) — €10,569
8: Andry Purk (Estonia) — €8,704
9: Bent Christensen (Denmark) — €6,839

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