Scott Hall Reaches $1M Milestone After Winning €555 KoV Championship

American Scott Hall arrived to the inaugural 2024 Kings of Vilnius at Olympic Casino Lietuva just a hair more than $22,000 away from passing $1 million in total live poker tournament earnings as tracked by The Hendon Mob.

Hall became the biggest King of them all. The American agreed to a deal with Edvinas Grimalis before shipping the three-day Event #1: €555 NLH Kings of Vilnius Championship for €26,725 and was able to celebrate in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius for his epic achievement of passing $1 million in recorded live poker earnings. This was also his fourth recorded victory including one event where he won a coveted WSOP Circuit gold ring after winning the 2019 WSOP Circuit Ameristar $1,700 Main Event for $130,667.

Hall wasn’t the only champion on Monday as three other players earned trophies. Vilius Zabarauskas won the two day Event #6: €350 NLH Progressive Bounty for €5,806 plus bounties. Kimantas Bartusevicius won the second title of the day for Lithuanians after finding gold in the one-day Event #10: €250 NLH Bounty for €3,735 plus bounties, while Giedrius Grigorius won another title for Lithuania in the one-day Event #11: €150 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 for €1,926.

Scott Hall Wins €555 NLH Kings of Vilnius Championship

The third and final day of the three-day €555 NLH Kings of Vilnius Championship witnessed just nine players battling it out from the title from a field of 297 entries which created a  €142,560 prize pool for a new side event record in Lithuania.

Runner-up Edvinas Grimalis began the day with the chip lead with Tomas Jagela (4 big blinds) and Aušra Razmaitė (7 big blinds) beginning the final table action as the short stacks.

The short stacks rejoiced as Greece’s Konstantinos Tzinis, who also had a deep run later in the day in a different event, was the first on the rail in ninth place for €3,020. This left Hall battling it out against seven Lithuanians for the title and his chance to pass $1 million in total cashes.

The short-stacked Razmaitė (seventh – €4,360) and Irmantas Kaulakis (eighth – €3,610) were the next to go with Jagela miraculously laddering up to fourth place for €10,690 after Lukas Poškus (fifth – €7,620) and Artūras Bliūdžius (sixth – €5,540) were eliminated.

Sergej Babincev reached the podium but went no further than a Bronze finish for third place for €14,260 leaving Hall and Grimalis heads-up for the title just a little more than three hours from the start of the day.

The duo agreed to a heads-up deal with €5,000 left for the winner. Hall earned the extra money, the trophy, and the pride of joining an exclusive seven-figure poker club after defeating Grimalis to earn the title after a nearly two-hour heads-up battle.

Check out the final table payouts below from the record-breaking €555 NLH Kings of Vilnius Championship:

Vilius Zabarauskas Wins €350 NLH Progressive Bounty

The two-day Event #6: €350 NLH Progressive Bounty attracted 155 entries to create a €47,492 prize pool including €15,500 reserved from progressive bounties. The final day witnessed 33 runners back in action with just 20 of them earning at least a min-cash of €470 plus any bounties they earned along the way.

Greece’s Konstantinos Tzinis was in a unique position as due to busting early on the €555 NLH Kings of Vilnius, he was able to late enter at the last moment to the €350 NLH Progressive Bounty. He advanced all the way to the heads-up action against Vilius Zabarauskas with each player locking in the €5,806 top prize from the prize pool after the start of the day chip leader Vitalijus Kuzmicius hit the rail in third place for €4,000 plus bounties.

Zabarauskas earned the trophy along with the big bounty at the end to conclude an exciting day for both heads-up players.

Kimantas Bartusevicius Wins €250 NLH Bounty

The one-day Event #10: €250 NLH Bounty proved to be another popular side event with 126 entries creating a €27,115 prize pool including €12,600 reserved for progressive bounties.

Norway’s Kristian Aksnes earned his second runner-up finish in back-to-back days for €2,500 plus bounties to go along with his second-place performance on Sunday in Event #7: €150 NLH/PLO4 Turbo for €1,707.

Meanwhile, Kimantas Bartusevicius was the star of the event after defeating Aksnes heads-up to win the €3,735 top prize plus bounties.

Giedrius Grigorius Wins €150 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6

The one-day €150 PLO4/PLO5/PLO6 was a fun event for Omaha lovers with the game rotating between four, five, and six cards each orbit on the button. This was a first-time six-card Pot-Limit Omaha has been included in any tournament in Lithuania marking a new milestone for the Baltic country’s poker community.

It was an all-Lithuanian affair once the action reached the money before Giedrius Grigorius defeated countrymate Linas Karaliunas heads-up to win the €1,926 top prize.

2024 Kings of Vilnius Day 5 Schedule (Tuesday, November 19)

Two more trophies are slated to be awarded on Tuesday in one-day event. Omaha enthusiasts will battle starting at 3 p.m. in Event #14: €555 PLO4/PLO5 Championship before hold-em lovers will get their chance to earn a trophy in Event #15: €250 NLH Turbo DeepStack.

Both trophy events are sandwiched in between a pair of satellites for the two-day €2,000 High Roller and the €250,000 guaranteed €1,100 Main Event.

Check out the full schedule below and head to OlyBetEvents to see what is coming up the rest of the week.