2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker Day 7: Mahonen and Kerušauskas Find Weekend Gold

The final weekend of the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker at Olympic Casino Lietuva witnessed a packed house. While players were busy trying to accumulate chips during the final two of three opening flights in the three-day Event #20: OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker €555 Main Event two other players won the beautiful OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker trophies.

Thus far, 261 entries popped into the Main Event for a €123,975 prize pool and counting. Late registration will remain open until the start of the third level of Day 2 with a fresh starting stack of 30,000 in chips with blinds at 1,000/2,500 (2,500) when the action resumes on Saturday at Noon. Marius Verikas crushed the Day 1c field and will lead the 99 survivors with 265,000.

The live reporting by Christoffer Karlén will continue throughout the Main Event, where players are awarded a unique and massive Ace Breaker cocktail when they crack aces, until a winner is crowned on Sunday. Follow along the action at poker.pro.

Meanwhile, there was tons of excitement for the second-ever Sviten Special tournament in Vilnius. Lithuanians were shut out of the money before Finland’s Jari Mähönen defeated Poland’s Grzegorz Zimnoch heads-up to win Event #22: €150 Sviten for €1,034. The second trophy stayed on home soil after Aivaras Kerušauskas defeated Paulius Morozas to win the popular Event #23: €150 NLH OlyBet x Euroleague Premium Sponsorship Celebration for €3,324.

Read on to learn more about Day 7 of the OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker at Olympic Casino Lietuva or click on the links below to read about the action during the first five days and be sure to check out the poker.pro coverage of the Main Event which will resume when cards are back in the air for Day 2 of the Main Event.

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Jari Mähönen Finds Mixed-Game Gold

Finland’s Jari Mähönen has attended most major festivals at Olympic Park Casino in Tallinn, Estonia, which will be hosting the 10th anniversary of the OlyBet Kings of Tallinn from Feb. 25 to March 2 with 64 tournaments highlighted by the €1 million guaranteed €1,100 Kings of Tallinn Main Event. During the past few festivals, Mähönen has teams with three other “Jaris” in Jari Saviaho, Jari Hurri, and Jari-Pekka Juhola to form the “Four of a Kind Jaris” team for the action-packed team competition taking place throughout the festival.

Despite Mähönen frequently visiting Estonia, the poker veteran who has nearly $1 million in records cashes at The Hendon Mob made his first trip to Vilnius for poker. Now, he will have something to remember his first trip to Lithuania for poker as he won the lion’s share of the €2,594 prize pool in the €150 Sviten with a €1,034 haul along with the coveted trophy all players in Vilnius are hungry to earn.

The trophy was guaranteed to leave Lithuanian soil after the final Lithuanian in the field Dominykas Ruškys bubbled in fifth place. The defending champion during the Kings of Vilnius in Linas Jautakis also wasn’t able to get traction after trying unsuccessfully three times to run up a stack.

2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker Event #22: €150 Sviten Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Jari Mähönen	Finland	€1,034
2	Grzegorz Zimnoch	Poland	€730
3	Pasi Rantanen	Finland	€470
4	Jyri Merivirta	Finland	€360

Kerušauskas Wins Largest Prize of Day

Players helped celebrate OlyBet’s partnership with the Euroleague in style with 101 eager entrants hoping for both poker and basketball glory to create a €12,474 prize pool in the Event #23 €150 NLH OlyBet x Euroleague Premium Sponsorship Celebration. Unlike the Sviten trophy, this one will stay nearby.

Lithuania’s Aivaras Kerušauskas, who passed the $100,000 milestone at The Hendon Mob after winning the €555 OlyBet Special for €13,985 now earned trophies in back-to-back international festivals in Vilnius after winning the €3,324 top prize.

Meanwhile, Paulius Morozas, Rasmus Sihvonen, and Dominykas Ruškys, who hopped into the action after bubbling the €150 Sviten all earned four-figure prizes with the top 13 players guaranteed at least a €270 min-cash.

2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker Event #23: €150 NLH OlyBet x Euroleague Premium Sponsorship Celebration Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Aivaras Kerušauskas	Lithuania	€3,324
2	Paulius Morozas	Lithuania	€2,300
3	Rasmus Sihvonen	Finland	€1,580
4	Dominykas Ruškys	Lithuania	€1,150
5	Egidijus Oleinik	Lithuania	€880
6	Aivaras Lukauskas	Lithuania	€710
7	Rapolas Bielskis	Lithuania	€570
8	Gennady Spiridonov	N/A	€460
9	Mantas Cibulskis	Lithuania	€360
10	Mindaugas Grigaitis	Lithuania	€300
11	Andrius Mažeika	Lithuania	€300
12	Ernestas Stalemekas	Lithuania	€270
13	Paulius  Majauskas	Lithuania	€270

2025 Vilnius Ace Breaker Schedule Day 7 (Saturday, Feb. 1)

The weekend is here and the action continues to heat up at the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker at Olympic Casino Lietuva. The final two opening flights of the €555 Main Event take place at 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. Players will still be able to get into the action on Day 2 and you can follow along the reports at poker.pro in our dedicated live blog.

Meanwhile, not one, but two trophies will be awarded on Friday in the €150 Sviten at 1 p.m. and the €150 NLH OlyBet x Euroleague Premium Sponsorship Celebration at 6 p.m. that this author plans to hop into this evening.

Check out Friday’s schedule below or read our introduction of the Vilnius Ace Breaker festival to see the full schedule.