2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo AE Day 6: Krūmiņš and Jespersen Earn Trophies

Olympic Voodoo Casino was full of action on Thursday with the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Autumn Edition, with the €1,100 Main Event playing out the final two opening flights, along with two players earning trophies in Latvia’s Ēriks Krūmiņš and Denmark’s Morten Jespersen.

Krūmiņš was the first player to earn a trophy on the day after denying Lithuania its first trophy at this festival by defeating Jonas Lapinskas heads-up to win the €3,302 top prize in the one-day Event #19: €200 NLH. This isn’t the first rodeo won by Krūmiņš, as in the past two years, he has been a star in Tallinn. In 2024, Krūmiņš earned his first WSOP Circuit gold ring after winning Event #1: €250 NLH for €31,620. This past summer, Krūmiņš earned his second gold ring at the 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn €350 Online Ring Event, exclusively at OlyBet Poker, for €11,162.

Krūmiņš isn’t the only ring winner from Tallinn looking to add trophies in Riga, as Sweden’s Jenny Westerlund, who shipped the 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn €1,500 Main Event for €200,200. Both Krūmiņš and Westerlund will also be heading to the Bahamas in December with other ring winners from across the globe, thanks to an added Ticket to Paradise valued at $5,000 as part of the WSOP Paradise to both players’ ring wins this summer.

While Krūmiņš was busy adding to his hardware collection; the one-day Event #20: €250 NLH Progressive Bounty was winding down, with Jespersen taking down the title for €1,895 plus bounties.

Meanwhile, the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Autumn Edition €1,100 Main Event already attracted 128 entries to add €121,600 to the prize pool. Latvia’s Roberts Krīgers is looking to repeat his success from the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Autumn Edition €1,100 Main Event, when he won the €33,300 top prize. Krīgers now leads the 48 players to find a bag on Day 2 with more players to come with late registration remaining open during the first two hour-long blind levels, with the action resuming at Noon.

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Ēriks Krūmiņš Adds to Legacy

Latvia’s Ēriks Krūmiņš has become an OlyBet legend over the past few years after winning WSOP Circuit Tallinn rings in back-to-back years. He also managed a pair of victories the past couple of years at the Irish Poker Open and will be a player to keep their eyes on for years to come.

Krūmiņš apparently prefers double vision with two WSOP Circuit Tallinn rings and two Irish Open trophies in back-to-back years. He continued this trend with the OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo events. Last September, Krūmiņš shipped the €250 NLH Deep Stack for €3,487 and the trophy. Fast forward to one year later, and Krūmiņš followed the pattern and won his second Riga trophy on Thursday evening, this time in Event #19: €200 NLH for €3,302 after defeating Lithuania’s Jonas Lapinskas (second – €2,190) for the title.

The €200 NLH attracted 68 entries to create a €10,982 prize pool. The final nine players each earned at least a €350 min-cash after the United Kingdom’s Mark Adams bubbled the event in 10th place.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Ēriks Krūmiņš	Latvia	€3,302
2	Jonas Lapinskas	Lithuania	€2,190
3	Mantas Stapulionis	Lithuania	€1,540
4	Daniele D’angelo	Italy	€1,120
5	Matias Sillanmäki	Finland	€820
6	Roberts Cibulis	Latvia	€670
7	Ilari Seinela	Finland	€550
8	Dmitrijs Mihejevs	Latvia	€440
9	Kaspars Avots	Latvia	€350

Morten Jespersen Wins €250 NLH Progressive Bounty

Event #20: €250 NLH Progressive Bounty attracted 70 entries to generate €14,630 in prizes, including €7,000 in progressive bounties.

The top eight players collected at least €280 from the prize pool after Latvia’s Valdis Skudra just missed out on an official payout when he became the first player to hit the rail at the final table in ninth place.

Denmark’s Morten Jespersen and Greece’s Enea Subashi were the last players standing, each already locking up the €1,895 top prize. Jespersen won the huge bounty at the end to become the first player from Denmark to win a trophy at the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Autumn Edition.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Morten Jespersen	Denmark	€1,895
2	Enea Subashi	Greece	€1,895
3	Joona Oksanen	Finland	€1,230
4	Irina Liepina	Latvia	€850
5	Juris Hlibovs	Latvia	€620
6	Armands Meinarts	Latvia	€490
7	Justinas Fišeris	Lithuania	€370
8	Andreas Eriksson	Sweden	€280

Defending Champion Roberts Krīgers Leads Main Event

The €1,100 Main Event roars on for two more days on Friday and Saturday until a winner is crowned. Thus far, 128 entries got into the mix during the three opening flights with defending champion Roberts Krīgers in the captain’s seat to start Day 2 with 48 players remaining after parlaying his 30,000 opening stack into 191,500 in chips. A pair of Lithuanians are on the tail of Krīgers with Lukas Poškus (190,500) and Liutauras Armanavičius (178,000).

Late registration will remain open until the start of the third blind level of Day 2, which kicks off on Friday at Noon. After this, the prizes will be announced and published in the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Autumn Edition €1,100 Main Event blog at poker.pro, where you can also check out the Day 2 seat draw, updates from the opening flights, and blow-by-blow action for the next two days until a winner is crowned.

Check out the top 10 stacks below heading into Day 2 of the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Autumn Edition €1,100 Main Event.

Rank	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Roberts Krīgers	Latvia	191,500	128
2	Lukas Poškus	Lithuania	190,500	127
3	Liutauras Armanavičius	Lithuania	178,000	119
4	Alexander Levin	Israel	141,500	94
5	Guillermo Cifuentes	Spain	133,000	89
6	Henrik Veldhoen	Germany	132,000	88
7	Victor Amat	Spain	128,000	85
8	Valtteri Rintamaki	Finland	121,500	81
9	Agnese Barča	Latvia	121,000	81
10	Arunas Satkus	Lithuania	119,500	80

2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Autumn Edition Schedule (Friday, Sept. 26)

Friday begins with Day 2 of the €1,100 Main Event at Noon. The poker.pro live reporter Christoffer Karlen will be bringing the Main Event action to your phone or desktop in the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Autumn Edition live reporting blog.

Shortly after, players will battle in the two-day €350 NLH Deepstack Progressive Bounty at 3 p.m. Additionally, two players will earn trophies on Friday in the €200 PLO at 6 p.m. and the €150 NLH Turbo at 9 p.m.

Check out Friday’s schedule below or head to the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition landing page at OlyBetEvents to check out the full schedule and more.