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Paulius Vaitekunas won the Onyx High Roller Series $10,200 Bounty at Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa in Northern Cyprus, taking the trophy, the $32,200 first prize and $20,000 in bounty value after a little more than three hours of play.

As covered earlier in the week when Boris Kolev won the $10,400 Mystery Bounty, the Cyprus stop was already moving through its closing stretch at the same venue.

According to PokerNews, the $10,200 event drew just seven entries. That left the full $32,200 regular prize pool for the winner, with each elimination worth $5,000. The setup was quick from the outset, with 100,000-chip stacks, 200/500 blinds and a 500 big blind ante, 20-minute levels, unlimited reentries and late registration open through Level 6.

The field began with five players and grew to seven when two late entrants joined in Level 4. Vaitekunas was one of those late arrivals, which meant he played more than an hour less than the players who had been there from the opening hand.

He scored the first bounty by busting Manig Loeser in seventh place, then watched Moussa Ahmad fall to Aleksandr Kirichenko before the break. Felipe Ketzer went quickly after play resumed, Chengyu Liao followed, and Kirichenko later slipped after Vaitekunas pulled in a substantial pot and then sent Vladas Tamasauskas out in third with a rivered three-outer.

That left Vaitekunas with a near three-to-one chip lead for heads-up play. The title ended a few hands later when Kirichenko moved all in on an ill-timed bluff and Vaitekunas called it down to secure the win.

Vaitekunas said it was probably the quickest live tournament he had played, pointing to the jump from Level 4 to Level 11 in a single session. He said his Spin & Go background helped him handle wider ranges and short-handed dynamics, and he also praised the venue and the series, even if he said the festival had not really been a success for him until the trophy arrived.