2025 Diamond Poker Series PLO Grand Slam in Albania Will Have €5M in Guarantees
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The second Diamond Poker Series PLO Grand Slam at Albania’s Arena Casino Tirana is set to take place in 2025 after a successful event in November that produced some of the biggest PLO fields in European history.
PokerNews will be on-site for the €5 million guaranteed festival running Jan. 23-30 and will be providing live updates for the €5,000 Opener and €10,000 PLO Grand Slam Championship.
The PLO Grand Slam festival follows a series last month that included a €10,300 PLO Grand Slam Championship that produced a prize pool of €1.2 million.
There were successful side events as well, including a €5,000 Opener with 210 entries, the biggest field at that buy-in level in European history, and had more than 140 unique players from 36 countries.
The next festival will have even more action, with highlights including a $2,500 Five-Card Bounty Welcome Event with a €300,000 guarantee, a €5,000 buy-in event with a €1 million guarantee.
There are plenty of other big guarantees, such as a €10,000 buy-in guaranteed event, a €10,000 Progressive Bounty event with a €500,000 guarantee and a €25,000 High Roller with a €500,000 guarantee.
Some events offer special features. For example, the two players with the most bullets in the €5,000 Day 1a Opener will each win a €10,000 Championship ticket.
There will also be an Early Bird bonus that will see players who register before the start of play getting a 10% increase to their starting stack, as well as a 5% bonus for players who register during the first level of play.
Like the previous stop, the hotel will be complimentary for all €5,000 and €10,000 players. Players who want to stay on-site at the venue should book quickly because rooms are filling up fast.
There will be a VIP terminal service available for all event participants. A driver will wait for players near the “Arena Casino Tournament” sign at the airport.
Anonymous Winner in November
Who won last month’s €10,300 PLO Grand Slam Championship? That’s a good question, as the winner only went by the alias “Benjamin N” and asked to remain anonymous. The same was true for runner-up “Phil Ejri” as both players were part of a four-way chop that also included Spain’s Lautaro Guerra and Greece’s Nikolaos Lampropoulos.
€10,300 PLO Grand Slam Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Benjamin N” | €219,200* | |
| 2 | “Phil Ejri” | €166,500* | |
| 3 | Lautaro Guerra | Spain | €170,700* |
| 4 | Nikolaos Lampropoulos | Greece | €190,800* |
| 5 | Dimitrios Amoiridis | Greece | €89,000 |
| 6 | Harun Ertural | Germany | €70,000 |
| 7 | Alex Livingston | Canada | €54,000 |
| 8 | Vasil Medarov | Bulgaria | €41,000 |
| 9 | Belarmino De Souza | Brazil | €30,000 |
* Denotes four-way deal
Guerra is fresh off a bracelet victory in the $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Super High Roller for $2.1 million.
Other players who final tabled the €10,300 event include Belarmino De Souza, Vasil Medarov and two-time bracelet winner Alex Livingston.
The full schedule for the upcoming PLO Grand Slam series is available in the table below.
2025 PLO Grand Slam Schedule
| Date | Time | Event | Buy-In (In Euro) | Guarantee (In Euro) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 23 | 17:00 | 2k PLO 5-card Bounty One Day | 1,000 € + 200 € + 1,000 € | 300,000€ |
| January 24 | 13:00 | Satellite to 5k Day 1a | 500 € + 50 € | 4 Tickets |
| January 24 | 16:00 | 5k PLO Grand Slam Opener Day1a | 5,000 € + 200 € | 1,000,000€ |
| January 25 | 13:00 | Satellite to 5k Day 1b | 500 € + 50 € | 4 Tickets |
| January 25 | 16:00 | 5k PLO Grand Slam Opener Day1b | 5,000 € + 200 € | 1,000,000€ |
| January 26 | 14:00 | 5k PLO Grand Slam Opener Final Day | 5,000 € + 200 € | 1,000,000€ |
| January 26 | 17:00 | 5k One Day Mystery Bounty | 3,000 € + 200 € + 2,000 € | 300,000€ |
| January 26 | 20:00 | Satellite to 10k with 4x ticket | 1,000 € + 100 € | 4 Tickets |
| January 27 | 13:00 | Satellite to 10k with 4x ticket | 1,000 € + 100 € | 4 Tickets |
| January 27 | 16:00 | 10k PLO Grand Slam Championship Day 1 | 10,000 € + 300 € | 2,000,000€ |
| January 28 | 13:00 | Last chance satellite to 10k with 4x ticket | 1,000 € + 100 € | 4 Tickets |
| January 28 | 16:00 | 10k PLO Grand Slam Championship Day 2 | 10,000 € + 300 € | 2,000,000€ |
| January 28 | 18:00 | 3k 5-card Bounty One Day | 2,000 € + 300 € + 1,000 € | 200,000€ |
| January 29 | 14:00 | 10k PLO Grand Slam Championship Final Day | - | 2,000,000€ |
| January 29 | 17:00 | 10k Progressive Bounty | 7,000 € + 300 € + 3,000 € | 500,000€ |
| January 29 | 20:00 | 2k PLO mix 4c/5c/6c | 2,000 € + 200 € | 50,000€ |
| January 30 | 16:00 | 25k PLO Grand Slam High Roller One Day | 25,000 € + 500 € | 500,000€ |
| January 30 | 20:00 | 2k 6-card Turbo | 2,000 € + 200 € | 50,000€ |
Connor Richards is an Editor & Live Reporter for PokerNews and host of the Life Outside Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for two Global Poker Awards for his writing.
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