WSOP Main Event going well for Lithuanians

The dream of all poker players is to play at least once in a WSOP $10,000 buy-in Main Event.

This year (2018) 13 Lithuanians took part in the competition - Daiva Byrne, Paulius Plausinaitis, Dominykas Mikolaitis, Arūnas Sapitavičius, Aleksandras Rusinovas, Kristupas Bertulis, Matas Cikinas, Laurynas Levinskas, Vytautas Semaska, and others.

Four days into the game, there are a couple of Lithuanians among the 310 survivors: Laurynas Levinskas is 68th with 1.855 million and Matas Čikinas is 218th with 731,000 chips.

Update - 10.07.2018. Matas Čikinas finished in 117th place. The only compatriot left in the Main Event is Laurynas Levinskas, who has 3.7 million chips. Let's support him and wish him luck!

After 5 days of the Main Event, the players with the most chips are:

LocationPlayerAmount of chipsCountry
1Michael Dyer12,180,000USA
2Brian Yoon8,395,000USA
3Jeff Trudeau8,305,000USA
4Hari Bercovici7,650,000Israel
5Bart Lybaert7,530,000Belgium
6Paulo Goncalves6,940,000Brazil
7Peter Campo6,935,000USA
8Konstantin Beylin6,930,000USA
9Alexander Gross6,755,000USA
10Artem Metalidi6,525,000Ukraine
45Laurynas Levinskas3,740,000Lithuania
117 (dropped)Matas Čikinas$57,010Lithuania
163 (dropped)Mantas $49,335Lithuania