Dominykas Mikolaitis has been playing live tournaments since 2016, mixing it up in high rollers since 2023 and started playing Triton Poker Series events in early 2024. Most notably, the Lithuanian recorded the two best live cashes of his career last November at the Triton Poker Monte Carlo festival, finishing fourth in a $50,000 and third in a $60,000 for more than $1.4 million in total.
Mikolaitis has been in search of two things that had been eluding him to this point in his career – a signature victory and a $1 million result. And on Tuesday, in one dramatic performance in Event 9 at Triton Poker Montenegro, the 30-year-old poker pro checked off both boxes.
At a final table that also included recent Triton champion and serious 2025 Card Player Player of the Year contender Jesse Lonis, David Peters, and Ben Tollerene, Mikolaitis took down the $50,000 no-limit hold’em tournament at Triton Poker Montenegro for $1,258,000 and his first title on the prestigious high-stakes tour.
Mikolaitis also secured 1,020 Card Player POY points as the champion of this sizable event, which drew 100 total entries to generate a prize pool of $5 million.
Despite over $3.7 million in lifetime earnings, this is just the second significant live tournament win of Mikolaitis’ career. His first was a WSOP International Circuit ring victory in Georgia back in 2016.
When the official final table of seven was reached, Mikolaitis was squarely in the middle of the chip counts in fourth place. An untimely bluff against Peters, when Peters flopped trips with A♦4♠, left Mikolaitis short. At one point Mikolaitis was as short as seven big blinds, but he found a key double back through Peters with pocket aces.
On the very next hand, Mikolaitis picked up pocket kings and put Danilo Velasevic at risk with A♣Q♥. A king on the flop gave Mikolaitis a stranglehold on the hand and Velasevic went out in sixth place.
A runner-runner heart flush with A♥K♥ allowed Mikolaitis to knock off Peters in third place, and set up a heads-up match between Mikolaitis and Alex Kulev of Bulgaria. Kulev won a Triton title of his own in Montenegro in 2024, and also won both a WSOP bracelet and a €100,000 high roller at EPT Monte Carlo in 2023.
Kulev seemed poised to make a run at a second Triton title when he got all in with A♥10♦ against Mikolaitis’ A♣8♣, but an eight-high flop with two clubs spelled the end of the tournament.
The Triton series in Montenegro runs through May 27 with the $100,000 Triton main event set to conclude on Friday, May 23.
| Place | Player | Payout |
| 1 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | $1,258,000 |
| 2 | Alex Kulev | $850,000 |
| 3 | David Peters | $552,000 |
| 4 | Jesse Lonis | $457,000 |
| 5 | Poseidon Ho | $368,000 |
| 6 | Danilo Velasevic | $291,000 |
| 7 | Ben Tollerene | $222,000 |
Photo credit: Triton Poker.
