It was an action-packed Thursday at Olympic Casino Lietuva as the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius moved onto its sixth day. The crown jewel of the festival in the 2025 OlyBet Showdown witnessed its final two opening flights played out while two other players were busy earning trophies in side events.
The three Main Event opening flights attracted 160 entries with 59 players finding bags to Friday’s Day 2. The field will continue to grow with late registration open for the first two hour-long blind levels of the day after cards kick off at 12 pm.
Edgaras Baranauskas snagged the overall chip lead on Day 1b after catapulting his 30,000 opening stack into a 126 big blind stack of 251,500 with Laurynas Černiauskas (242,000) and Mindaugas Kriaučiūnas (200,000) also advancing with at least 200,000. Finland’s Jarmo Salonen and Norway’s Drea Karlsen performed the best from the out-of-towners, with both players starting Day 2 with 125,000 in chips.
Meanwhile, Finland’s Leevi Kangasluoma won the basketball-themed €200 NLH OlyBet x Euroleague Premium Sponsorship Celebration for €4,451 and Valerij Dobrinskij shipped the €250 NLH Progressive Bounty for €1,954 plus bounties.
Read more to learn more about the Rusinovas’s road to victory on the fifth day at the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius.
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Leevi Kangasluoma Wins €200 NLH OlyBet x Euroleague Premium Sponsorship
The €200 NLH OlyBet x Euroleague Premium Sponsorship brought basketball fans and poker enthusiasts together for an evening of poker camaraderie. The event attracted 94 runners to create a €15,181 prize pool.
Finland’s Veeti Valasti was the first player out in the money in 11th place for €400, making it highly likely that the trophy would stay in Lithuania, with nine out of the ten remaining players from the home country.
However, Lithuanian players hit the rail one by one before Finland’s Leevi Kangasluoma dashed the hopes of the local players to win the trophy and the €4,451 top prize after defeating Aivaras Lukauskas heads-up.
Event #18: €200 NLH OlyBet x Euroleague Premium Sponsorship Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Leevi Kangasluoma | Finland | €4,451 |
| 2 |  Aivaras Lukauskas | Lithuania | €2,900 |
| 3 | Mindaugas Šimkus | Lithuania | €2,000 |
| 4 | Dominykas Rimkevičius | Lithuania | €1,460 |
| 5 | Mantas Burba | Lithuania | €1,080 |
| 6 | Aistis Maskaliūnas | Lithuania | €810 |
| 7 | Ainoras Striupas | Lithuania | €670 |
| 8 | Povilas Latvėnas | Lithuania | €550 |
| 9 | Algimantas Jablonskas | Lithuania | €460 |
| 10 | Aidas Urniezius | Lithuania | €400 |
| 11 | Veeti Valasti | Finland | €400 |
Valerij Dobrinskij Wins Trophy in €250 NLH Progressive Bounty
While Lithuania was blanked from the winners circle in the €200 NLH OlyBet x Euroleague Premium Sponsorship, the local poker community did go home with a trophy later in the evening in the €250 NLH Progressive Bounty.
The trophy was guaranteed to stay on home soil after Netherlands’ Koen Roos finished in third place for €1,270 plus bounties, leaving Valerij Dobrinskij and Ernestas Stalemekas heads-up for the title, with both players already locking up the €1,954 top prize from the prize pool.
Dobrinskij defeated Stalemekas to win the big bounty to end the tournament portion of the evening while many others players continued to enjoy the cash games as has been the case throughout the festival.
The €250 NLH Progressive Bounty attracted 72 runners to create €15,048 in prizes including €7,200 in bounties.
Event #19: €250 NLH Progressive Bounty Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valerij Dobrinskij | Lithuania | €1,954 |
| 2 | Ernestas Stalemekas | Lithuania | €1,954 |
| 3 | Koen Roos | Netherlands | €1,270 |
| 4 | Vilius Zabarauskas | Lithuania | €870 |
| 5 | Arnestas Armonas | United States | €530 |
| 6 | Aaron Toroussian Jacobs | United States | €500 |
| 7 | Justus Schulze | Germany | €380 |
| 8 | Dainius Kudarauskas | Lithuania | €290 |
2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius €1,100 Main Event Day 2 Opening Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edgaras Baranauskas | Lithuania | 251,500 | 126 |
| 2 | Laurynas Černiauskas | Lithuania | 242,000 | 121 |
| 3 | Mindaugas Kriaučiūnas | Lithuania | 200,000 | 100 |
| 4 | Sigitas Raila | Lithuania | 154,000 | 77 |
| 5 | Rokas Skridulis | Lithuania | 152,500 | 76 |
| 6 | Vladas Burneikis | Lithuania | 125,500 | 63 |
| 7 | Jarmo Salonen | Finland | 125,000 | 63 |
| 8 |  Drea Karlsen | Norway | 125,000 | 63 |
| 9 | Edgaras Truskauskas | Lithuania | 121,000 | 61 |
| 10 | Rytis Pranarauskas | Lithuania | 120,000 | 60 |
| 11 | Liutauras Armanavičius | Lithuania | 119,000 | 60 |
| 12 |  Arturs Daugis | Latvia | 116,500 | 58 |
| 13 | Vidar Assersen | Norway | 115,500 | 58 |
| 14 | Tomas Muraška | Lithuania | 114,500 | 57 |
| 15 | Aleksandras Rusinovas | Lithuania | 109,000 | 55 |
| 16 | Petteri Laiho | Finland | 108,000 | 54 |
| 17 | Valerijus Raginis | Lithuania | 107,000 | 54 |
| 18 | Audrius Laimelis | Lithuania | 102,500 | 51 |
| 19 |  Edoardo Mancinelli | Italy | 100,000 | 50 |
| 20 | Tomas Bassus | Lithuania | 98,000 | 49 |
| 21 | Mantas Ungulaitis | Lithuania | 97,000 | 49 |
| 22 | Lukas Poškus | Lithuania | 92,500 | 46 |
| 23 | Algirdas Sukys | Lithuania | 90,500 | 45 |
| 24 | Vygerdas Jonikas | Lithuania | 86,000 | 43 |
| 25 | Osku Karttunen | Finland | 85,000 | 43 |
| 26 | Manfredas Brazauskas | Lithuania | 83,000 | 42 |
| 27 | Edvinas Orlovas | Lithuania | 81,000 | 41 |
| 28 |  Tobias Napel | Netherlands | 78,500 | 39 |
| 29 | Jevgenijs Sapronenko | Latvia | 77,000 | 39 |
| 30 | Rasmus Sihvonen | Finland | 76,500 | 38 |
| 31 | Vytautas Baltrušaitis | Lithuania | 74,500 | 37 |
| 32 | Jaunius Maževičius | Lithuania | 71,000 | 36 |
| 33 | Modestas Kryžanauskas | Lithuania | 62,500 | 31 |
| 34 | Justinas Adomauskas | Lithuania | 61,000 | 31 |
| 35 |  Arnestas Armonas | United States | 54,500 | 27 |
| 36 | Gintautas Danilevičius | Lithuania | 53,000 | 27 |
| 37 |  Dennis Becker | Germany | 51,000 | 26 |
| 38 | Egidijus Matonis | Lithuania | 50,000 | 25 |
| 39 | Kristers Muhins | Latvia | 48,000 | 24 |
| 40 | Darius Šimkus | Lithuania | 47,500 | 24 |
| 41 |  Tarmo Tammel | Estonia | 47,500 | 24 |
| 42 | Bruno Rejs Corns | Latvia | 46,500 | 23 |
| 43 | Andrejs Harzejevs | Latvia | 45,000 | 23 |
| 44 | Edgaras Kausinis | Lithuania | 43,000 | 22 |
| 45 | Marijus Dirgela | Lithuania | 43,000 | 22 |
| 46 | Linas Radionovas | Lithuania | 41,000 | 21 |
| 47 | Aurelijus Sipavičius | Lithuania | 40,500 | 20 |
| 48 | Janis Markss | Latvia | 40,000 | 20 |
| 49 | Rokas Šermukšnis | Lithuania | 39,000 | 20 |
| 50 | Svajūnas Šeduikis | Lithuania | 38,500 | 19 |
| 51 |  Michael Engstroem | Sweden | 37,000 | 19 |
| 52 | Ridas Bitauskas | Lithuania | 35,000 | 18 |
| 53 | Audrius Navickas | Lithuania | 34,500 | 17 |
| 54 | Lukas Peteška | Lithuania | 31,500 | 16 |
| 55 | Vytautas Laurinaitis | Lithuania | 28,000 | 14 |
| 56 | Jami Juutila | Finland | 23,500 | 12 |
| 57 | Vladimiras Mečkovskis | Lithuania | 23,000 | 12 |
| 58 | Jouni Huovila | Finland | 22,500 | 11 |
| 59 | Eivydas Baravykas | Lithuania | 19,000 | 10 |
2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Day 7 Schedule (Thursday, May 23)
The action will be electric on Friday, featuring Day 2 of the Main Event, which will be live and reported at poker.pro, starting at 12 p.m.
This is not all, as players will have three opportunities to earn trophies, including the €150 Sviten Special at 3 p.m., the €350 NLH DeepStack Progressive Bounty at 4 p.m., and the €200 NLH at 8 p.m.
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 Day 2 |
| 15:00 | Event #20: €150 Sviten Special |
| 16:00 | Event #21: €350 NLH DeepStack Progressive Bounty |
| 20:00 | Event #22: €200 NLH |
