The second and final weekend of the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius arrived, with Saturday aiming to be a huge day with the prestigious OlyBet Showdown Vilnius €1,100 Main Event winner ready to be crowned at Olympic Casino Lietuva.
The Main Event attracted 187 entries to create a huge €177,650 prize pool with the action playing down to the final table on Friday’s Day 2, with already €4,880 locked up with a whopping €40,060 top prize awaiting Saturday’s winner.
Lithuania’s Rokas Skridulis leads the way when the nine players return to action on Saturday at Noon with Christopher Karlen live reporting the event at poker.pro until a winner is crowned with other big names, including €555 NLH Championship winner Aleksandras Rusinovas in third place, with Sigitas Raila in between these two players in second place.
Finland’s Rasmus Sihvonen will be another player for poker enthusiasts to keep their eyes on as the Finn already made his mark in the Lithuanian capital earlier this year after shipping the OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker €555 Main Event for €28,760. He is again in the middle of the pack in hopes of securing an even larger haul in the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius €1,100 Main Event.
While players were busy strategizing in the Main Event, the poker room was buzzing with activity. In addition to the cash games, three champions were crowned: Lithuania’s Mindaugas Razmas won the €150 Sviten Special for €965, Germany’s Thomas Danielmeier shipped the €350 NLH Progressive Bounty for €3,128 plus bounties, and the 2023 Kings of Tallinn Main Event runner-up from Finland, Petteri Laiho, won the €200 NLH for €3,135.
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Rokas Skridulis Secures Final Table Chip Lead After Day 2 (By Christoffer Karlen)
Day 2 of the €1,100 Main Event ended after about 9 1/2 hours of play, and it was yet another fantastic day of poker during the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius. The atmosphere at the Olympic Casino Lithuania is unparalleled, and today was no exception.
58 players had advanced from the various Day 1 flights, and with late registration open for the first two hours today, the numbers of entries and the prize pool was set to grow. Let’s take a look at what went down today, and what lucky nine players secured a ticket for tomorrow’s final table.
A Star-Studded Field in the Main Event
Let’s start the recap from Level 15. By then, late registration was over, and at this point, 54 players remained, all fighting for the biggest €40,060 slice out of the €177,650 prize pool. At this point, the same players who topped the chip counts entering Day 2 were still the biggest stacks.
The €2,200 High Roller champion Rytis Pranarauskas was one of the first notable bustouts as his A♠K♥ couldn’t beat the jacks of Sigitas Raila. Raila would continue to win some pots here and there, and at the conclusion of Level 16, he was fourth in the chip counts. Leading the field at this point was Rokas Skridulis, who had won a lot of chips in a crucial hand against Tobias Ten Napel.
Skridulis would also become the person to send the top 23 players in the money, as he eliminated Vladimiras Mečkovskis on the bubble. From there on, the “Post Bubble Bustout Bonanza” became a reality, and players exited the tournament left and right. Edgaras Baranauskas, who was the chip leader going into Day 2, was eliminated in 19th place for €2,470.
Still in the mix, though, was the reigning champ Rasmus Sihvonen. He captured the €555 Main Event title during the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker played in January this year, and he locked horns many times with Skridulis.
Soon enough, Gintautas Danilevičius eliminated Laurynas Černiauskas on the final table bubble in 10th place for €4,130, and the remaining nine players bagged their chips. Tomorrow’s final table should be entertaining, and there is not one, but two chances of a cool chapter being written in the Lithuanian poker history books. Sihvonen could win back-to-back Main Event titles at Olympic Casino Lithuania, or Aleksandras Rusinovas could follow up his €555 NLH Championship title with yet another tournament conquer.
The final table will commence on Saturday, May 24 at Noon with blinds at 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 big blind ante in what promises to be a thrilling conclusion to the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius €1,100 Main Event.
2025 OlyBet Vilnius Showdown €1,100 Main Event Final Table Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Janis Markss | Latvia | 360,000 | 36 |
| 2 |  Edgaras Truskauskas | Lithuania | 728,000 | 73 |
| 3 | Gintautas Danilevičius | Lithuania | 764,000 | 76 |
| 4 | Rokas Skridulis | Lithuania | 908,000 | 91 |
| 5 |  Rasmus Sihvonen | Finland | 751,000 | 75 |
| 6 | Vladas Burneikis | Lithuania | 278,000 | 28 |
| 7 | Justinas Adomauskas | Lithuania | 221,000 | 22 |
| 8 | Sigitas Raila | Lithuania | 824,000 | 82 |
| 9 | Aleksandras Rusinovas | Lithuania | 777,000 | 78 |
Mindaugas Razmas Wins €150 Sviten Special
Sviten Special is a new game for the Lithuanian poker community. Invented in Swedish poker clubs many years ago, it combines pot-limit Omaha and pot-limit five-card draw in the same game.
The €150 Sviten Special event was indeed special and attracted a crowd of 23 entries for a €2,840 prize pool, with many others watching the action. After Vidmantas Vysniauskas exited on the money bubble, half the field remaining was from Finland, with the other half from the home country of Lithuania. Both Finland’s Osku Karttunen (third – €510) and countrymate Vesa Heikkinen (fourth – €400) headed to the cashier, guaranteeing the trophy would stay in Lithuania.
Mindaugas Razmas and Egidijus Pilibavičius agreed to a heads-up deal, with each player earning €965 before Razmas was crowned the latest Sviten Special champion at Olympic Casino Lietuva.
Event #20: €150 Sviten Special Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mindaugas Razmas | Lithuania | €965 |
| 2 | Egidijus Pilibavičius | Lithuania | €965 |
| 3 | Osku Karttunen | Finland | €510 |
| 4 | Vesa Heikkinen | Finland | €400 |
Thomas Danielmeier Wins €350 NLH Progressive Bounty
The €350 NLH Progressive Bounty attracted 87 entries to generate €25,622 in prizes, including €8,700 in progressive bounties.
A three-way deal was agreed after Lithuania’s Ignas Matijosaitis exited in fourth place for €1,780 plus bounties. Lithuania lost rights to this trophy after Aidas Urniezius exited in third place for €3,128 plus bounties, leaving Estonian poker crusher Tarmo Tammel heads-up against Germany’s Thomas Danielmeier.
Tammel had already secured the largest portion of the prize pool of €3,726 but was unable to secure the trophy or the big bounty at the end. Instead, Danielmeier sealed the deal for his first trophy on Lithuanian soil for €3,128 plus bounties.
Event #21: €350 NLH Progressive Bounty Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Thomas Danielmeier | Germany | €3,128 |
| 2 |  Tarmo Tammel | Estonia | €3,726 |
| 3 | Aidas Urniezius | Lithuania | €3,128 |
| 4 | Ignas Matijosaitis | Lithuania | €1,780 |
| 5 | Darius Burbulas | Lithuania | €1,290 |
| 6 |  Jari Porkka | Sweden | €1,000 |
| 7 | Artiom Gončarenko | Lithuania | €790 |
| 8 |  Ailo Hegge | Norway | €640 |
| 9 | Lukas Poškus | Lithuania | €520 |
| 10 | Bruno Rejs Corns | Latvia | €460 |
| 11 | Valdemaras Apolianskas | Lithuania | €460 |
Petteri Laiho Ships €200 NLH
The 2023 Kings of Tallinn Main Event runner-up Petteri Laiho earned his first title on Lithuanian soil after defeating Lithuania’s Egidijus Stankus heads-up to earn the €3,135 top prize in the €200 NLH.
The event attracted 57 entries, creating a €9,205 prize pool. The top seven players earned at least a €470 minimum cash.
This wrapped up the tournament portion of Friday evening. However, the cash games rained hard, and players enjoyed poker action while waiting for Saturday’s tournament schedule to begin.
Event #22: €200 NLH Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petteri Laiho | Finland | €3,135 |
| 2 | Egidijus Stankus | Lithuania | €2,010 |
| 3 | Vidas Encius | Lithuania | €1,340 |
| 4 | Tomas Zarankus | Lithuania | €950 |
| 5 | Modestas Kurauskas | Lithuania | €720 |
| 6 | Janis Markss | Latvia | €580 |
| 7 | Vytautas Laurinaitis | Lithuania | €470 |
2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Day 8 Schedule (Friday, May 25)
The action will be hot on Saturday, featuring the final table of the Main Event, which will be live and reported at poker.pro, starting at 12 p.m.
It is easily the busiest day on the schedule with five new trophy events kicking off including the two-day €350 OlyBOOST Special at 12 p.m. The €80 Queens at 4 p.m. will attract many women from Europe including poker.pro’s Maureen Bloechlinger, who not only founded Globetrotting Poker and Globetrotting Poker Women, but works on many initiatives to bring more inclusivity into poker.
This is all on top of three other one day events in the €200 NLH/PLO4 at 7 p.m., the €150 NLH Bounties at 9 p.m., and the €150 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Progressive Bounty online at OlyBet Poker at 9 p.m.
The online event at OlyBet also provides opportunities for those outside of Vilnius to win the trophy as this event is open to anyone with an account at OlyBet Poker.
Check out today’s schedule below or head to the OlyBet Events website for the full schedule.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Event #15: €1,100 Main Event Final Table |
| 12:00 | Event #23: €350 OlyBOOST Special Day 1 |
| 13:00 | Event #24: €10 Satellite to €80 Queens (5 Seats GTD) |
| 16:00 | Event #25: €80 Queens (Ladies Only) |
| 19:00 | Event #26: €200 NLH/PLO4 |
| 21:00 | Event #27: €150 NLH Bounties |
| 21:00 | Event #28: €150 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Progressive Bounty |
