2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo SE Day 4: Alex Isen Brings Trophy to United Kingdom

The fourth day of the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition witnessed United Kingdom’s Alex Isen earn the sole trophy at the iconic Olympic Voodoo Casino after defeating a field of 91 entries to win the €2,190 top prize along with a ton of bounties in the one-day €250 NLH Progressive Bounty.

This author invited his friend and colleague in Redtooth’s Glenn Brown, who was recently at the Kings of Tallinn, where the European leg of the Redtooth Poker Tour took place reported by poker.pro, to join him for some fun and poker in Riga. It didn’t take too much arm twisting, and Brown upped it up a notch by bringing over pub league player Lisa Mcnamara and London casino regular Alex Isen.

The trio all have something to brag about at the moment. Brown took fourth place in the event won by Isen, with Brown calling Isen’s shot.

“My friend Alex is going to win it,” Brown said while still having a healthy stack to a handful of people with two tables left before repeating it a few times throughout the final table.

While Brown rooted his friend to victory, Mcnamara was busy on a journey of her own. Mcnamara, who came into this event without cash on The Hendon Mob, is now in a good spot to make a deep run in the €555 NLH Championship after quadrupling her 30,000 opening stack. She qualified the night before in a €80 satellite where she was playing aggressively with her hands to have fun despite already having a seat seemingly locked up. While Mcnamara is here to see a new city, if things go well, she will need to wait a few days with this three-day event set to crown a winner on Thursday, with France’s Michel Leibgorin beginning the action on Day 2 at Noon on Wednesday with the chip lead over the field with 258,100 for a 258 big blind stack to start the day and late registration remaining open for the first three 40-minute blind levels.

In addition to cash games, Tuesday also boasted two satellites, with players qualifying for the €250 NLH Progressive Bounty won by Isen and the €1,100 Main Event, which will kick off the first of its three opening flights on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

Read on to learn more about the fourth day of the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition at Olympic Voodoo Casino.

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The Union Jack Flag Waved High Headlined by Alex Isen in the €250 NLH Progressive Bounty

The €250 NLH Progressive Bounty attracted 91 runners, generating €20,019 in prizes, including €9,100 reserved for progressive bounties.

The Union Jack flag of the United Kingdom was evident throughout the event. Five of the 91 entries came from the United Kingdom, from four different players, including the eventual champion Alex Isen, who was in for two bullets.

Three of the four players from the United Kingdom found their way into the money, with just Phillip Huxley left without a payout slip. As Huxley has been a long-time resident of Berlin, perhaps we can leave him out of the mix and say it was a perfect score for the British contingent at the 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition in this event.

United Kingdom’s Daniel Stancer was the first player out in the money in 11th place for €270 plus bounties. Not too much later, the final table kicked off after Lithuania’s Airidas Stazys followed Stancer to the rail for the same prize in 10th place. Lithaunia’s Deividas Vaičiulis (seventh – €460 + bounties), Latvia’s Jānis Meņģelis (eighth – €380 + bounties), and Finland’s Ulf Bredenberg (ninth – €300) were the first out on the final table guaranteeing that either the trophy would stay home or experience some air travel to the United Kingdom.

Two Brits and two Latvians remained after a pair of Latvians were eliminated, including Toms Čivčs (fifth – €750 + bounties) and Arnis Mednis (sixth – €579 + bounties).

The scales were perhaps tipped to Latvia temporarily after Glenn Brown exited in fourth place for €1,050. Brown didn’t go too far as he was there to rail his friend Isen en route to a trophy. Latvia’s Kristaps Zālītis was the first out on the podium for €1,480 plus bounties, leaving Isen and Latvia’s Jevgēnijs Zotovs heads-up for the title with both players already locking up the top €2,190 prize from the prize pool. Isen won the massive bounty at the end and was through the moon to earn the trophy and the lion’s share of the prize pool.

Event #12: €250 NLH Progressive Bounty Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Alex Isen	United Kingdom	€2,190
2	Jevgēnijs Zotovs	Latvia	€2,190
3	Kristaps Zālītis	Latvia	€1,480
4	Glenn Brown	United Kingdom	€1,050
5	Toms Čivčs	Latvia	€750
6	Arnis Mednis	Latvia	€579
7	Deividas Vaičiulis	Lithuania	€460
8	Jānis Meņģelis	Latvia	€380
9	Ulf Bredenberg	Finland	€300
10	Airidas Stazys	Lithuania	€270
11	Daniel Stancer	United Kingdom	€270

Leibgorin Leads International Affair in €555 NLH Championship

France’s Michel Leibgorin had a busy Day 1b on Tuesday after catapulting his 30,000 opening stack into 258,100 to start Day 2 with the chip lead in the three-day Event #8: €555 NLH Championship.

The top of the leaderboard remarkably boasts players from seven different countries including Sweden’s Arasch Mirzai, Australia’s Raimund Longbottom, Latvia’s 2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition €250 NLH Opening Event champion Raivis Pučurs (134,400), Ukraine’s Roman Petelytski (132,700), United Kingdom’s Lisa Mcnamara (125,800), and Finland’s Aklilu Laitinen (122,500). The trend stopped with the first repeating country with Latvian 2024 WSOP Circuit Tallinn ring winner Ēriks Krūmiņš (115,500).

Check out the full chip counts below to start Day 2. The action resumes on Wednesday at 12:00 p.m.

Rank	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Michel Leibgorin	France	258,100	258
2	Arasch Mirzai	Sweden	181,600	182
3	Raimund Longbottom	Australia	142,000	142
4	Raivis Pučurs	Latvia	134,400	134
5	Roman Petelytski	Ukraine	132,700	133
6	Lisa Mcnamara	United Kingdom	125,800	126
7	Aklilu Laitinen	Finland	122,500	123
8	Ēriks Krūmiņš	Latvia	115,500	116
9	Vladas Burneikis	Lithuania	115,000	115
10	Roman Tishunin	Russia	111,100	111
11	Ott Jaakson	Estonia	105,500	106
12	Roberts Krīgers	Latvia	105,100	105
13	Veli-Pekka Alakorva	Finland	104,100	104
14	Romāns Krasins	Latvia	100,300	100
15	Baptiste Albert Jacques Caim	France	98,400	98
16	Kristjan Maasalu	Estonia	98,400	98
17	Gatis Popovs	Latvia	97,700	98
18	Kaspars Renga	Latvia	92,300	92
19	Daniels Vīksna	Latvia	89,700	90
20	Gisle Olsen	Denmark	88,200	88
21	Sergejs Piratovs	Latvia	86,900	87
22	Yaniv Peretz	Latvia	84,000	84
23	Ģirts Zariņš	Latvia	83,000	83
24	Mindaugas Grigaitis	Lithuania	82,100	82
25	Algirdas Saveikis	Lithuania	76,400	76
26	Areks Dzintars	Latvia	75,600	76
27	Pēteris Balodis	Latvia	75,000	75
28	Jakub Matusiak	Poland	71,100	71
29	Lasse Laukkarinen	Finland	70,000	70
30	Harijs Ērglis	Latvia	69,900	70
31	Arnis Mednis	Latvia	65,500	66
32	Manoel Filho	Brazil	64,600	65
33	Enea Subashi	Greece	64,100	64
34	Vesa Heikkinen	Finland	57,500	58
35	Einius Jurgevicius	Lithuania	52,800	53
36	Edgars Beizaks	Latvia	51,100	51
37	Haralds Iesalnieks	Latvia	49,100	49
38	Martynas Racinskas	Lithuania	49,100	49
39	Klaudijus Bajoras	Lithuania	48,700	49
40	Vidar Assersen	Norway	47,600	48
41	Joona Koivisto	Finland	47,000	47
42	Yevhen Pavlenko	Ukraine	35,900	36
43	Tommi Tapaninen	Finland	34,500	35
44	Mathias Christensen	Sweden	32,800	33
45	Mārtiņš Priede	Latvia	31,200	31
46	Tommi Hakala	Finland	29,300	29
47	Alberts Čevers	Latvia	28,100	28
48	Edgaras Pipine	Lithuania	27,800	28
49	Jurgis Beinoras	Lithuania	27,300	27
50	Dominykas Ruškys	Lithuania	24,100	24
51	Vygerdas Jonikas	Lithuania	21,800	22
52	Emīls Adata	Latvia	17,500	18
53	Valeriy Hrachov	Ukraine	16,700	17
54	Audrius Laimelis	Lithuania	12,400	12

2025 OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition Schedule (Wednesday, March 26)

Wednesday is full of action, with the day starting with Day 2 of the €555 NLH Championship at Noon, with late registration open for the first three blind levels of the day. The action will play down to a final table of nine hopefuls for what promises to be a massive top prize.

This is not all, as today will also boast the start of the inaugural OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo €1,100 Main Event with the first of three opening flights beginning at 5 p.m. Players will battle for 10 levels of 40-minutes each in hopes of bagging a healthy stack to Friday’s Day 2 in this four-day affair.

One player will earn a trophy on Wednesday with cards in the air for the action-packed €250 PLO4/PLO5 Progressive Bounty at 7 p.m. Late-night owls will have a chance to get into the €1,100 Main Event at a fraction of the cost, with a €80 satellite guaranteeing at least four Main Event seats beginning at 9:30 p.m.

Check out Wednesday’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.