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.

Aaron Pahlawan 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.

PLO Grand Slam 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

7/9ths of the final table 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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