Lithuanians Sweep the Board on Sunday at OlyBet Showdown Vilnius

The first weekend of the 2026 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius is in the books at Olympic Casino Lietuva, with plenty of familiar faces already in the mix. Among them were Finland’s Jukka Juhoven, a two-time side-event champion at this stop, Latvia’s Viktors Caikins, fresh off a recent final table at the OlyBet Showdown Riga €1,100 Main Event, and Finland’s Rasmus Sihvonen, a three-time Vilnius trophy winner who also won last year’s €555 Ace Breaker Main Event for €28,760.

While Caikins came close to adding another title with a runner-up finish in the €350 NLH Progressive Bounty, where both he and Lithuania’s Vidas Encius earned €3,562 plus bounties, the international contingent was ultimately shut out, as all four trophies stayed on Lithuanian soil.

Leading the local charge was Dominykas Būda, the standout performer of the weekend after taking down the two-day €250 NLH Opening Event for €6,979 by defeating Sigitas Raila heads-up. Linas Petruškevičius added another home victory by besting Gintaras Bagužis in the €200 PLO4/PLO5 for €1,935, while Aleksandr Petrovskij closed out the weekend with a win in the €150 NLH, defeating Artūras Daukševič heads-up for €1,770.

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Dominykas Būda Wins €250 NLH Opening Event

The €250 NLH Opening Event attracted 131 entries on Saturday’s opening day, creating a prize pool of €27,379. The final day began with the final nine hopefuls, eight of whom were from Lithuania, for the title.

Dominykas Būda came into the event with less than $3,000 on his The Hendon Mob profile and will have a day to remember as he more than doubled his total after defeating Sigitas Raila heads-up to earn his first international trophy and the €6,979 top prize.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Dominykas Būda	Lithuania	€6,979
2	Sigitas Raila	Lithuania	€4,710
3	Egidijus Matonis	Lithuania	€3,270
4	Manfredas Brazauskas	Lithuania	€2,380
5	Iurii Volkhonov	Russia	€1,840
6	Tomas Možeiko	Lithuania	€1,440
7	Tomas Pinkevičius	Lithuania	€1,180
8	Gintaras Naglius	Lithuania	€990
9	Audrius Lukasevicius	Lithuania	€830
10	Teemu Salminen	Finland	€710
11	Anna Kaminarova	Israel	€710
12	Svajūnas Šeduikis	Lithuania	€620
13	Mantas Burba	Lithuania	€620
14	Arvydas Ruseckis	Lithuania	€550
15	Lukas Račkauskas	Lithuania	€550

Vidas Encius Wins €350 NLH Progressive Bounty

The €350 NLH Progressive Bounty attracted 83 runners to create €23,444 in prizes, including €8,300 in bounties. Lithuania’s Vidas Encius and Latvia’s Viktors Caikins battled heads-up for the title, with €3,562 already locked up. Caikins has boasted many deep runs at OlyBet-branded events over the years, while around this time last year, Encius was busy winning a local event in the Kaunas Spring Cup €350 Main Event for €7,180.

Encius wound up earning around the same this time around after defeating Caikins to win the trophy and the final massive bounty.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Vidas Encius	Lithuania	€3,562
2	Viktors Caikins	Latvia	€3,562
3	Justinas Vaitoška	Lithuania	€2,410
4	Gerardas Lukšėnas	Lithuania	€1,700
5	Raimondas Žilėnas	Lithuania	€1,230
6	Mantas Burba	Lithuania	€950
7	Rasmus Sihvonen	Finland	€750
8	Jonas Lapinskas	Lithuania	€610
9	Povilas Latvėnas	Lithuania	€490
10	Aina Ramdahl	Norway	€440
11	Anna Kaminarova	Israel	€440

Linas Petruškevičius Wins €200 PLO4/PLO5

The €200 PLO4/PLO5 attracted 30 entries with the top four players collecting a piece of the €4,845 prize pool. Finland’s Ville Keranen was going for back-to-back PLO victories after winning the €150 PLO5 Bounty for €761 plus bounties. He instead will need to settle for two cashes out of two PLO events with a third-place finish worth €870.

Linas Petruškevičius got the job done with his first victory in an international festival, according to The Hendon Mob, in nearly a decade after defeating Gintaras Bagužis to win the trophy and the €1,935 top prize.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Linas Petruškevičius	Lithuania	€1,935
2	Gintaras Bagužis	Lithuania	€1,360
3	Ville Keranen	Finland	€870
4	Tadeuš Oleškevič	Lithuania	€680

Aleksandr Petrovskij Wins €150 NLH

The €150 NLH witnessed a field of 40 entries competing for €4,940 in prizes. The clean sweep for trophies on Sunday by the home crowd was guaranteed after Finland’s Onni Harmaala exited in fifth place for a min-cash worth €445 for nearly triple the buy-in.

Aleksandr Petrovskij earned the honors of the final trophy winner after defeating Artūras Daukševič to win the €1,770 top prize.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Aleksandr Petrovskij	Lithuania	€1,770
2	Artūras Daukševič	Lithuania	€1,235
3	Irmantas Jablonskas	Lithuania	€885
4	Zilvinas Stulgaitis	Lithuania	€605
5	Onni Harmaala	Finland	€445

2026 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Schedule (Monday, May 11)

Bigger action has descended on Vilnius on Monday, May 11, with the start of the €555 NLH Championship at 4 p.m., with a €30 satellite guaranteeing at least two seats in this prestigious event beginning four hours earlier at 12 p.m.

Two trophies are on the line on Monday in the €250 PLO5 at 6 p.m., followed by the €200 NLH at 8 p.m. The day concludes as it began, with another satellite, this time an €80 Satellite guaranteeing two seats to the €1,100 Main Event beginning on Wednesday.

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• Article originally published at poker.pro.