Latvian WPT champion and Poker Masters title winner
POKER HALL OF FAME
Inducted 2014
Vitalijs Zavorotnijs is a Latvian tournament poker player whose major results include the 2019 WPT Barcelona Main Event championship and a title at the 2026 Poker Masters. His record spans European tournament festivals and high-buy-in events in Las Vegas.
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A breakthrough year in Europe
Zavorotnijs won the 2019 OlyBet Kings of Tallinn Main Event for €85,300, a result recorded in PokerNews’s player archive. Less than a month later, he won the €3,300 WPT Barcelona Main Event at Casino Barcelona.
The World Poker Tour’s official championship report records 1,227 entries and a €600,000 first-place package, including a $15,000 Tournament of Champions seat. The victory made him the first Latvian WPT Main Event champion and brought him into the WPT Champions Club.
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World Series of Poker results
His tournament record also includes deep WSOP finishes. PokerNews lists 71st place for $117,710 in the 2019 WSOP Main Event and fourth place for $240,707 in the 2024 $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em event. These cashes are separate from his WPT championship record.
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Poker Masters success
At the 2026 Poker Masters, Zavorotnijs won the $10,500 no-limit hold’em Event 4 for $224,000. The official PGT recap records 80 entries and identifies the result as his second PGT victory.
He returned to heads-up play in the same series on October 21, finishing second in the $15,700 Event 8 for $176,400. The official event result confirms that finish. Together, those two results produced $400,400 in gross tournament awards at that point in the series; they do not represent net profit.
