The 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker, powered by OlyBet Poker, award three more trophies at Olympic Casino Lietuva. The local streak was broken. During the first two days of the festival, first four victories belonged to local players including Vilius Zabarauskas, who already earned two of the beautifully designed trophies with two of the three winners hailing from outside the home country of Lithuania including one event where the entire podium was from out of town.
- Read more: Vilnius Zabarauskas Wins First Trophy
- Read more: Vilius Zabarauskas Wins Second Trophy
Sweden’s Simon Persson defeated Jari Mähönen to win the Event #8: €250 NLH Knockout for €2,006 plus bounties, Žydrūnas Karčemarskas defeated local countrymate Linas Jautakis to win Event #9: €250 PLO4/PLO5 for €3,434, and Ian Morris, who freshly arrived from the United Kingdom, max late-entered Event #10: NLH Hyper Turbo for his second bullet before earning the trophy and the €1,264 top prize.
Read on to learn more about what transpired on Day 3 of the 2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker at Olympic Casino Lietuva:
A Podium Full of Foreigners in the €250 NLH Knockout
The €250 NLH Knockout attracted 54 entries to create a €11,286 prize pool including €5,400 in bounties with a €100 bounty collected any time a player eliminated an opponent throughout the event.
After Mindaugas Sungaila bubbled in sixth place three other Lithuanian followed in the money including the last woman standing in Aušra Razmaitė exiting in fourth place. This guaranteed the entire podium would be full of players from outside of Lithuania for the first time in recent memory in an event held on Lithuanian soil.
Finland’s Jari Mähönen, who along with Finnish poker journalist Aki Pyysing, both shared with poker.pro on Monday that they were busy flag hunting this week. Mähönen did nearly more than that as he was just one player away from the title after Estonia’s Sven Reimaa exited in third place.
However, Sweden’s Simon Persson was also hungry for the trophy and got the job done to win the €2,006 top prize along with plenty of bounties along the way.
2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker Event #8: €250 NLH Knockout Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Simon Persson | Sweden | €2,006 |
| 2 |  Jari Mähönen | Finland | €1,290 |
| 3 |  Sven Reimaa | Estonia | €940 |
| 4 |  Aušra Razmaitė | Lithuania | €710 |
| 5 | Ričardas Bartašius | Lithuania | €530 |
| 6 | Algis Griškevičius | Lithuania | €410 |
Žydrūnas Karčemarskas Beats the Beasts in the €250 PLO4/PLO5
The one-day Event #9: €250 PLO4/PLO5 proved to be popular from Omaha enthusiasts with 46 entries creating a €9,614 prize pool.
While Aki Pyysing, Norway’s Gunnar Wedde, Friend of poker.pro and founder of Globetrotting Poker Maureen Bloechlinger, and this author were unable to advance to the final table, the final three players in this event each were known for their Omaha prowess.
WSOP bracelet winner Vincas Tamasauskas is typically busy playing online but yesterday he nearly had a live trophy to put in his trophy case after bowing in in third place for €1,730. Linas Jautakis, nearly picked off where he left off at the Kings of Vilnius when he won two trophies before falling one place shy in second place for €2,410.
Meanwhile, 2022 Vilnius Open Main Event champion Žydrūnas Karčemarskas shined above them all and will return on Tuesday to take his winner’s photo after winning the event for the €3,434 top prize.
2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker Event #9: €250 PLO4/PLO5 Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Žydrūnas Karčemarskas | Lithuania | €3,434 |
| 2 | Linas Jautakis | Lithuania | €2,410 |
| 3 | Vincas Tamasauskas | Lithuania | €1,730 |
| 4 | Dainius Balynas | Lithuania | €1,180 |
| 5 | Valerij Kudriavcev | Lithuania | €860 |
Ian Morris Straight Off a Flight to Victory
The final event was a fast-paced affair with 27 entries generating a €3,344 prize pool in Event #10: €150 NLH Hyper Turbo. Bloechlinger and I both noticed a familiar face as we began to play in United Kingdom’s Ian Morris. He was content enjoying to drink with a friend but it didn’t take much arm-twisting to get him into the action.
While the first bullet didn’t go well, Morris opted to max late reenter. It was a good thing he did as he went on to win the trophy after agreeing to a heads-up deal with Ridas Bitauskas where both players collected four figure prizes.
Congrats to Morris on the nice welcome to the beautiful Lithuanian capital of Vilnius and poker.pro will keep our eyes out for more success as the festival progresses.
2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker Event #10: €150 NLH Hyper Turbo
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Ian Morris | United Kingdom | €1,264 |
| 2 | Ridas Bitauskas | Lithuania | €1,000 |
| 3 | Linas Užkuraitis | Lithuania | €600 |
| 4 | Roope Keminen | Finland | €470 |
2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker Schedule Day 4 (Tuesday, Jan. 28)
The fourth day of the 2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker will begin with a €30 qualifier to Thursday’s Day 1a of the €555 Main Event at 1 p.m. followed by two one-day trophy events in the €350 NLH Turbo Deepstack at 5 p.m. and the €150 NLH/PLO at 8 p.m.
The final event in the €80 Satellite at 9 p.m. will award at least two seats to Wednesday’s two-day €1,100 High Roller.
Check out Sunday’s schedule below or read our introduction of the Vilnius Ace Breaker festival to see the full schedule.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 13:00 | Event #11: €30 Satellite to The €555 Main Event 1a |
| 17:00 | Event #12: €350 NLH Turbo DeepStack |
| 20:00 | Event #13: €150 NLH/PLO |
| 21:00 | Event #14: €80 Satellite to The €1,100 High Roller (2 Seats GTD) |
