Anna Kaminarova Wins Sole OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Trophy on Tuesday

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March 18, 2026
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Anna Kaminarova Wins Sole OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Trophy on Tuesday
2026 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition

The 2026 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition continues to deliver tons of action and excitement at Olympic Voodoo Casino. Tuesday witnessed Anna Kaminarova claim the sole title in the €250 NLH Progressive Bounty for €2,142 plus bounties, while players continued to pile into the two-day €555 NLH Championship.

Kaminarova earned her first cash at The Hendon Mob during the Kings of Tallinn, where she took 51st place in the €200 Mini Main Event for €520. She learned about the OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition during the Kings of Tallinn and made the journey with her husband from Saint Petersburg, and will proudly go home on Wednesday with a poker trophy in hand.

Meanwhile, the €555 NLH Championship attracted 154 runners across the two opening flights, adding €73,150 to the prize pool. Denmark’s Jorgen Andersen leads the way after bagging up 285,000 in chips on Tuesday’s Day 1b from a 30,000 starting stack. The field will continue to grow with late registration remaining open for the first two 40-minute blind levels of Day 2.

The poker.pro live reporting, headlined by Richard Hayes, will begin at Noon when cards are in the air for the final day of the €555 NLH Championship.

Anna Kaminarova Heads Home With a Trophy

Anna Kaminarova

It will be a bittersweet goodbye for Anna Kaminarova as she heads back home to Saint Petersburg on Wednesday with a trophy in hand after defeating Latvia’s Juris Liepiņš in heads-up play in the €250 NLH Progressive Bounty, with both players earning the €2,142 top prize before Kaminarova earned the final big bounty at the end.

Time will tell whether Kaminarova will try to add to her trophy collection at the next big OlyBet Event in the OlyBet Showdown Tallinn at Olympic Park Casino on April 10-19.

The €250 NLH Progressive Bounty attracted 86 entries, creating €17,974 in prizes, including €8,600 earmarked for bounties.

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1 Anna KaminarovaRussia€2,142
2 Juris LiepiņšLatvia€2,142
3 Audrius ŠiaulysLithuania€1,420
4 Mikko TallgrenFinland€1,000
5 Ingus AnšēvicsLatvia€770
6 Niko LuhtalampiFinland€630
7 Gatis ReigassLatvia€520
8 Pāvels SpirinsLatvia€420
9 Baptiste CaimFrance€330

Jorgen Andersen Leads €555 NLH Championship

The OlyBet Showdown Spring Edition is already well underway at the Olympic Voodoo Casino, set in the heart of the historic Latvian capital, Riga, with players from all over the world flocking to the venue in search of poker action and glory.

The poker.pro reporting team will be on the floor covering all the action for the remainder of the festival as attention turns to the showpiece events, the €555 NLH Championship and the €1,100 Main Event.

Two starting flights of the €555 NLH Championship have already been completed, with late registration remaining open for the first two blind levels of Day 2. The starting flights attracted a total of 154 entries, creating a substantial €73,150 prize pool, and 43 players managed to negotiate 12 40-minute levels to progress to Day 2.

Registration remains open until the start of Level 15. Players taking advantage of late registration will sit down with a starting stack of 30,000, with the clock set to 40-minute levels.

The event may surpass last year’s figures, when Jānis Meņģelis of Latvia overcame a 185-entry field to bag the trophy and first-place prize of €19,845.

Danish player Jorgen Anderson (285,000) takes the chip lead into Day 2 after storming to the top of the standings in Day 1b, and he is closely followed by two Latvian players, Daniels Viskina (260,000) and Edgars Hauks (207,000). Max Jafaripour of Sweden (200,000) topped the standings in Day 1a.

Eric Wasylenko

Opening Event champion Eric Wasylenko of Canada (148,500) is in a strong position to capture a duo of titles, while Linas Bulkšas of Lithuania (100,000) is chasing another OlyBet NLH Championship title after triumphing in the equivalent event at the Kings of Vilnius festival. Poker coach and streamer Matīss Celmiņš of Latvia (179,000) will be another dangerman.

PlacePlayerCountryChipsBig Blinds
1 Jorgen Dyhrberg AndersenDenmark285,000142
2 Daniels ViksnaLatvia260,000130
3 Edgars HauksLatvia207,000103
4 Max JafaripourSweden200,000100
5 Sergejs PiratovsLatvia193,00097
6 Marijus DirgelaLithuania187,50093
7 Matīss CelmiņšLatvia179,00090
8 Normunds RumbaLatvia154,50077
9 Tero HokkanenFinland152,00076
10 Eric WasylenkoCanada148,50074
11 Mateusz OscilowskiPoland145,00073
12 Ralf MikkEstonia139,50069
13 Nauris JansonsLatvia138,00069
14 Eriks KruminsLatvia133,50066
15 Cyril PeralezFrance130,00065
16 Michael IbbaItaly123,50062
17 Pāvels SpirinsLatvia113,50057
18 Gediminas GuzelisLithuania112,00056
19 Askolds UldriķisLatvia108,00054
20 Yehven PavlenkoUkraine103,50051
21 Vladislavs PetrovsLatvia103,50051
22 Linas BulkšasLithuania100,00050
23 Jan RisbergSweden96,50048
24 Kristaps ZarānsLatvia88,50044
25 Roberts KrīgersLatvia84,00042
26 Rami AmuriLatvia81,00040
27 Iļja SluckersLatvia78,00039
28 Algirdas SaveikisLithuania77,50038
29 Audrius NavickasLithuania76,50038
30 Hryhorii MeleshenkoUkraine69,50035
31 Baptiste CaimFrance63,50032
32 Rūdolfs VosvenieksLatvia57,00029
33 Kristoffer WintersteinSweden54,00027
34 Garijs RozkalnsLatvia53,50026
35 Andreas BacklundFinland51,50025
36 Michal GoralPoland49,00025
37 Viesturs OšisLatvia45,50023
38 Yaniv PeretzLatvia42,00021
39 Patriks ŠvinkaLatvia34,00017
40 Artjoms UrušadzeLatvia33,50017
41 Kristaps DeksnisLatvia33,00017
42 Roberts RumbaLatvia30,00015
43 Jevgenijs KritininsLatvia26,50013

OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Schedule (March 17)

The excitement kicks in straight out of the gate on Wednesday, March 17 at Olympic Casino Voodoo with the second and final day of the €555 NLH Championship kicking off at Noon. Players can still get into the action as mentioned during the first two blind levels of Day 2.

Later in the day, the moment many have been waiting for will begin with the first of three opening flights of the 2026 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition €1,100 Main Event at 5 p.m. Many players will be battling at 2 p.m. in an €80 satellite guaranteeing at least two seats to the Main Event.

The evening will bring two more trophy winners in a pair of one-day events, including the €250 PLO4/PLO5 Progressive Bounty Deepstack at 6 p.m., followed by the €200 NLH at 9 p.m.

Check out today’s schedule below and head to OlyBetEvents.com to learn more about the full schedule, a player’s guide, and more.

TimeEvent
12:00Event #9: €555 NLH Championship Day 2 (Final Day)
14:00Event #15: €80 Satellite to €1,100 Main Event (Two Seats Guaranteed)
17:00Event #16: €1,100 Main Event Day 1a
18:00Event #17: €250 PLO4/5 Progressive Bounty Deepstack
21:00Event #18: €200 NLH

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