Olympic Casino, Lietuva was again absolutely packed for the penultimate day of the 2026 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius, as the finale of the flagship event of the festival, the €1,100 Main Event, played to its conclusion, and three side-event trophies were awarded.
Jurgis Beinoras was the last player standing in the €1,100 Main Event, taking the title and €24,995, after a three-way ICM deal with Sergej Babincev and Romans Lihacovs left only the destination of the final €6,290 of the prize pool and the trophy to be determined. It was an epic battle, with a three-hour heads-up duel between Beinoras and Babincev required before the contest was concluded.
Elsewhere, Aivaras Lukauskas triumphed in the €200 NLH Bounty, Grigorij Rudnik bagged the €200 PLO4/PLO5 trophy, and Iryna Tsikhanskaya was the last lady with chips in the €150 NLH Queens tournament.
Lithuania’s Donatas Pilinkus earned a trophy online at OlyBet Poker on the penultimate day of the festival after winning the €150 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Online Progressive Bounty for €2,329, including €1,015 in bounties.
Meanwhile, the final two-day event of the festival, the €350 NLH OlyBet Special, got underway, with Arūnas Kontautas leading 23 qualifiers for the final day.
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Jurgis Beinoras Wins Olybet Showdown Vilnius €1,100 Main Event Win After Three-Way Deal & Epic Battle
Although only 11 players returned for the final day of the 2026 Olybet Showdown Vilnius €1,100 Main Event, a full 11 hours of combat were required before hometown hero Jurgis Beinoras was crowned as a worthy champion, taking the trophy and final portion of the prize pool following a three-way ICM deal.
Beinoras was the last player standing from a 121-entry field, which created a €114,950 prize pool. At the time the deal was struck, the stacks of Beinoras, fellow countryman Sergej Babincev, and Romans Lihacovs of Latvia were almost even. Babincev had a slight lead and banked €19,255, while Lihacovs and the champion secured €18,680 and €18,665 paydays, respectively.
The deal left €6,290, and the trophy was still to play for, and a titanic struggle ensued that took almost four hours to come to its conclusion. Lihacovs exited in third after jamming with second pair into Beinoras’ turned straight, before almost three hours of heads-up dueling took place before Beinoras and Babincev could be separated, sending Beinoras the trophy and a €24,995 bankroll boost.
The result appears to represent Beinoras’ largest recorded live tournament score, and the same can be said of former professional footballer Babincev, who was previously on the books of SFK Rotalis as a goalkeeper. Lihacovs, meanwhile, continues his fine form, having racked up around $250,000 in cashes in the last year.
At the start of the final table, Babincev had a healthy lead over Albert Ostrovskij, who secured yet another OlyBet Main Event final table finish, while Beinoras was in fifth.
Short-stack Vadims Milovs was the first casualty at the final table, falling to Stanislovas Viničenka, before Tomas Kovalenka found doubles in quick succession to move into contention.
Beinoras lost a flip to double Antonianas, before Ostrovskij got unlucky to exit in eighth in a huge three-way all-in with Lihacovs and Kovalenka. Lihacovs secured the triple-up and rode that momentum all the way to his third-place finish.
After a very quiet start to the final day, Beinoras suddenly exploded into life, finding successive doubles against Babincev and Viničenka. The champion proceeded to take a four-bet pot, and cracked Kovalenka’s aces, sending him to the payout desk in the process, to move into the lead.
Antonianas got unlucky to fall to Lihacovs in sixth, although he had been continually short at the final table, and he was followed out the door by Viničenka shortly after, whose stack had also dwindled.
Babincev doubled through Lihacovs with two pair, and Beinoras claimed his second scalp of the final table when he sent Adomas Juozapavičius to the rail in fourth. At this point, Beinoras had a significant lead over Babincev and Lihacovs, but Babincev came back into it when he bluffed the champion, before Lihacovs got lucky to crack Babincev’s queens.
Lihacovs doubled through Beinoras when in a dominating position, and after the eventual champion also doubled Babincev, the stacks were almost even, and the deal was agreed.
The battle was far from over, however, as the final three, and then the final duo, went to war in an intense confrontation for the last €6,290 of the prize pool and the trophy. Lihacovs took the lead for a period, but he would ultimately hit the buffers in third, running into Beinoras’ one-card straight.
A back-and-forth contest between Beinoras and Babincev then broke out, with Beinoras in the lead for most of it, but seemingly unable to land the decisive blow.
Babincev came back to almost even after showing a bluff, but Beinoras put daylight between them again when he check-jammed the turn in a big pot, and got a fold. In the decisive hand, Babincev got it in good, but Beinoras hit a pair, and Babincev missed a flush draw, bringing to an end an epic battle.
2026 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius €1,100 Main Event Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jurgis Beinoras | Lithuania | *€24,995 |
| 2 | Sergej Babincev | Lithuania | *€19,255 |
| 3 |  Romans Lihacovs | Latvia | *€18,680 |
| 4 | Adomas Juozapavičius | Lithuania | €10,000 |
| 5 | Stanislovas Viničenka | Lithuania | €7,710 |
| 6 | Artūras Antonianas | Lithuania | €6,040 |
| 7 | Tomas Kovalenka | Lithuania | €4,930 |
| 8 | Albert Ostrovskij | Lithuania | €4,140 |
| 9 | Vadims Milovs | Latvia | €3,500 |
| 10 | Linas Leščiauskas | Lithuania | €2,980 |
| 11 | Dominykas Morkunas | Lithuania | €2,980 |
| 12 | Justas Vaičiulionis | Lithuania | €2,600 |
| 13 | Vytautas Kačerauskas | Lithuania | €2,600 |
| 14 | Artūras Daukševič | Lithuania | €2,290 |
| 15 | Svajūnas Šeduikis | Lithuania | €2,290 |
*Denotes three-way ICM deal
Arūnas Kontautas Leads 23 Qualifiers After Day 1 of €350 NLH OlyBet Special
The starting flight of the final two-day tournament of the festival, the €350 NLH OlyBet Special, took place, and Arūnas Kontautas of Lithuania (284,000) leads 23 qualifiers for the final day.
A total of 61 entries were logged, creating a €17,965 prize pool, and late registration remains open until the start of Level 15, so those numbers are sure to swell further.
Latvian Vadims Milovs and Lithuanian Stanislovas Viničenka, who both final tabled the Main Event, are among the qualifiers, as is Ukrainian Dmytrii Zahrebelnyi, who has already bagged a trophy in Event 24, the €200 NLH event.
| Position | Player | Country | Chips | Blinds |
| 1 | Arūnas Kontautas | Lithuania | 284,000 | 142 |
| 2 | Artjoms Hromovs | Latvia | 195,000 | 98 |
| 3 | Juozas Kirjanovas | Lithuania | 175,000 | 88 |
| 4 |  Alexander Klochkov | Russia | 136,500 | 68 |
| 5 |  Ivan Petrovic | Serbia | 135,000 | 68 |
| 6 | Ernestas Stalemekas | Lithuania | 118,000 | 59 |
| 7 | Viktors Chaikins | Latvia | 101,500 | 51 |
| 8 | Robertas Jasnauskas | Lithuania | 95,500 | 48 |
| 9 | Algina Juknaitė | Lithuania | 86,000 | 43 |
| 10 | Vadims Milovs | Latvia | 86,000 | 43 |
| 11 | Gintaras Naglius | Lithuania | 63,000 | 32 |
| 12 |  Valiantsin Hrynko | Belarus | 57,000 | 29 |
| 13 | Vitalijus Briazkala | Lithuania | 56,000 | 28 |
| 14 |  Volodymyr Bezverkhyi | Ukraine | 53,000 | 27 |
| 15 | Miglė Krikščiunaitė | Lithuania | 47,000 | 24 |
| 16 | Valdemaras Apolianskas | Lithuania | 37,500 | 19 |
| 17 | Dmytrii Zahrebelnyi | Ukraine | 34,000 | 17 |
| 18 | Artūras Subbotinas | Lithuania | 33,500 | 17 |
| 19 | Stanislovas Viničenka | Lithuania | 26,500 | 13 |
| 20 | Gerardas Lukšėnas | Lithuania | 25,500 | 13 |
| 21 | Tomas Šimoliūnas | Lithuania | 24,500 | 12 |
| 22 | Tomas Možeiko | Lithuania | 18,000 | 9 |
| 23 | Vilius Zabarauskas | Lithuania | 14,500 | 7 |
Aivaras Lukauskas Wins €200 NLH Bounty
A total of 44 players created a €4,906 prize pool in the one-day €200 Bounty, with five places to be paid. Aivaras Lukauskas was crowned the champion for a €1,756 payday, defeating Andrius Dubietis heads-up, while Tomas Kovalenka secured a podium place after busting the Main Event final table earlier in the day.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Aivaras Lukauskas | Lithuania | €1,756 |
| 2 | Andrius Dubietis | Lithuania | €1,230 |
| 3 | Tomas Kovalenka | Lithuania | €880 |
| 4 | Viktors Caikins | Latvia | €600 |
| 5 | Gintaras Naglius | Lithuania | €440 |
Grigorij Rudnik Wins €200 PLO4/PLO5
The €200 PLO4/PLO5 attracted 31 entries, creating a €5,006 prize pool, split among the top four players.
Olympic Casino Lietuva veteran Grigorij Rudnik was the last player standing after defeating Khai Kiet Duong of Finland heads-up, securing a €2,006 payout, while Dominykas Morkunas put the pain of being the first player to bust the final day of the Main Event aside to bag a podium finish.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Grigorij Rudnik | Lithuania | €2,006 |
| 2 |  Khai Kiet Duong | Finland | €1,400 |
| 3 | Dominykas Morkunas | Lithuania | €900 |
| 4 | Andrej Michailov | Latvia | €700 |
Iryna Tsikhanskaya Wins €150 NLH Queens Event
The women-only events are always popular at OlyBet festivals, and 23 entries created a €2,841 prize pool, to be shared between the final four players.
Iryna Tsikhanskaya of Belarus took the trophy and €1,131 after defeating Viktorija Rakejevaitė heads-up, with the full results as follows:
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Iryna Tsikhanskaya | Belarus | €1,131 |
| 2 | Viktorija Rakejevaitė | Lithuania | €800 |
| 3 | Miglė Paškauskė | Lithuania | €510 |
| 4 | Aušra Razmaitė | Lithuania | €400 |
2026 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Schedule (Sunday, May 17)
It’s hard to believe, but May 17 is the final day of the festival, with two events still to be concluded as set out below.
Late registration remains open for two levels in the €350 NLH OlyBet Special, while the final event of proceedings is the €250 NLH Wrap-up.
| Date | Time | Event |
| 17 May | 12:00 | Event #26: €350 NLH OlyBet Special Day 2 (Final Day) |
| 17 May | 13:00 | Event #32: €250 NLH Wrap-up |
