Players have responded enthusiastically to the second-ever international poker festival hosted this decade in the Latvian capital of Riga as can be evidenced through the wide array of flags in the payout circles during the opening days of the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition at the Olympic Voodoo Casino.
Latvia’s Raivis Pučurs shipped the two-day Event #2: €250 NLH Opening Event for €6,740, which boasted four different nationalities at the final table before hoping into the one-day Event #4: €350 NLH DeepStack Progressive Bounty with the many others that already joined after busting from the final table before Pučurs hoisted the trophy. This wasn’t Pučurs largest live tournament cash to date as he recently finished in fifth place at the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker €555 Main Event for €7,810.
The final table of the €350 Deepstack Progressive Bounty featured six different nationalities before Greece’s Enea Subashi earned the €4,120 top prize plus bounties for his second trophy in as many months after previously winning a side event at the 2025 Kings of Tallinn.
Kaspars Renga made it three for four thus far for the locally Latvian poker community keeping trophies at home after he shipped the final trophy on Sunday in Event #6: €150 PLO4/PLO5 for €1,445. This event perhaps represented the international spirit of the festival the best with all five players that cashed representing different countries.
Read on to learn more about the second day of the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition at Olympic Voodoo Casino.
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Raivis Pučurs Parlays Final Table Chip Lead Into Event #2: €250 NLH Opening Event Title
Event #2: €250 NLH Opening Event attracted 126 entries on its opening day on Saturday and played deep into the money with 15 players cashing for at least €522 and the day ending with a final table hopeful of nine players.
Latvia’s Raivis Pučurs began the final table with the chip lead and ended the day with the trophy and the €6,740 top prize after defeating countrymate Jurijs Zaslavskis (second – €4,530) heads-up.
Many eyes were on Denmark’s Benyamin Canatan, who made a quick stop in Riga to check out the action after enjoying many amazing moments during the 2025 Kings of Tallinn including final tabling the 2025 Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event before bowing out in seventh place for €28,000. This was after already winning the 2025 Kings of Tallinn €555 Championship for €66,050. This time, however, Canatan was unable to get anything going with his short stack and was the first player out at the final table in ninth place for €800.
Meanwhile, Ott Jaakson (third – €3,150), 2024 WSOP Circuit Tallinn ring winner Ēriks Krūmiņš (fourth – €2,290), poker streamer Gatis Reigass (fifth – €1,765), Lithuania’s Edgaras Pipine (sixth – €1,385), Jevgēnijs Kritiņins (seventh – €1,130), and Yaniv Peretz (eighth – €950) also were awarded payout slips at the final table.
Event #2: €250 NLH Opening Event Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Raivis Pučurs | Latvia | €6,740 |
| 2 | Jurijs Zaslavskis | Latvia | €4,530 |
| 3 |  Ott Jaakson | Estonia | €3,150 |
| 4 | Ēriks Krūmiņš | Latvia | €2,290 |
| 5 | Gatis Reigass | Latvia | €1,765 |
| 6 |  Edgaras Pipine | Lithuania | €1,385 |
| 7 | Jevgēnijs Kritiņins | Latvia | €1,130 |
| 8 | Yaniv Peretz | Latvia | €950 |
| 9 |  Benyamin Canatan | Denmark | €800 |
| 10 | Vygerdas Jonikas | Lithuania | €680 |
| 11 |  Hryhorii Meleshenko | Ukraine | €680 |
| 12 | Valeriy Hrachov | Ukraine | €595 |
| 13 | Kristaps Zarāns | Latvia | €595 |
| 14 | Kaspars Avots | Latvia | €522 |
| 15 | Jānis Velkeris | Latvia | €522 |
Enea Subashi Wins Event #4: €350 NLH DeepStack Progressive Bounty
Event #4: €350 NLH DeepStack Progressive Bounty kicked off at the same time as the final table did in the €250 NLH Opening Event. The field reached 96 entries by the time late registration closed to create €28,272 in payouts including €18,672 in the prize pool and €9,600 reserved for progressive bounties.
Two players from the final table of the €250 Opening Event advanced to the final table in the €350 DeepStack Progressive Bounty including Edgaras Pipine (fifth – €1,420 + bounties) and Ēriks Krūmiņš (ninth – €572 + bounties).
Meanwhile, Terje Bremseth, otherwise known as Teddy, made a last-minute trip Monday morning to Riga and hopped into this event piling on the bounties before bowing out in third place for €2,790 plus bounties leaving Greece’s Enea Subashi and Ukraine’s Dan Korsunskyy heads-up for the title with both players with the €4,120 with the big bounty to be still played for at the end. Subashi secured the big bounty and a trophy to add to his collection, which also includes a trophy the 2025 Kings of Tallinn.
Event #4: €350 NLH DeepStack Progressive Bounty Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Enea Subashi | Greece | €4,120 |
| 2 | Dan Korsunskyy | Ukraine | €4,120 |
| 3 |  Terje Bremseth | Norway | €2,790 |
| 4 | Sergejs Piratovs | Latvia | €1,970 |
| 5 | Edgaras Pipine | Lithuania | €1,420 |
| 6 | Gatis Reigass | Latvia | €1,100 |
| 7 | Albert Ostrovskij | Lithuania | €870 |
| 8 |  Fatih Gulgonul | United Kingdom | €710 |
| 9 | Ēriks Krūmiņš | Latvia | €572 |
| 10 | Jānis Velkeris | Latvia | €500 |
| 11 | Vadims Milovs | Latvia | €500 |
Kaspars Renga Wins Event #6: €150 PLO4/PLO5
Kaspars Renga is one of the most successful live tournament players in Latvian poker history with more than $700,000 in cashes coming into this event as tracked at The Hendon Mob, where he sits in fourth place on the Latvian All-Time Money List. While this pales in comparison to the nearly $26 million earned by Latvian all-time leader Aleksejs Ponakovs, Renga earned most of his cashes in three- and four-figure buy-in events as opposed to the nosebleed affairs Ponakovs is often witnessed in.
Renga has done it once again and added another title on his home soil after shipping the one-day Event #6: €150 PLO4/PLO5 for €1,445 after defeating Norway’s Yonnas Jahren (second – €990) for the title.
Estonia’s Vladimirs Gotovecs (third – €610), Italy’s Vicenzo Dammiano (fourth – €464), and Sweden’s Mikael Doverklint (fifth – €320) also cashed in this event which attracted 31 entries to create a €3,829 prize pool.
Event #6: €150 PLO4/PLO5 Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaspars Renga | Latvia | €1,445 |
| 2 | Yonnas Jahren | Norway | €990 |
| 3 | Vladimirs Gotovecs | Estonia | €610 |
| 4 |  Vicenzo Dammiano | Italy | €464 |
| 5 |  Mikael Doverklint | Sweden | €320 |
2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition Schedule (Monday, March 24)
The bigger buy-in games begin on Monday with the first of three opening flights starting at 4 p.m. in the first-ever €555 Championship held in Riga with satellites into this event taking place at Noon and at 9 p.m.
One trophy will be on the line in Event #9: €250 NLH/PLO4/PLO5 starting at 6 p.m. with cash games running throughout the day and evening.
Check out Monday’s schedule below or head to the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition landing page at OlyBetEvents to check out the full schedule and more.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Event #7: €30 NLH R&A Satellite to €555 NLH Championship (2 Seats GTD) |
| 16:00 | Event #8: €555 NLH Championship Flight 1a |
| 18:00 | Event #9: €250 NLH/PLO4/PLO5 |
| 21:00 | Event #10: €80 Mega Satellite to €555 Championship (5 Seats GTD) |
