The second Diamond Poker Collection PLO Grand Slam at Albania’s Area On line casino Tirana is about to happen in 2025 after a profitable occasion in November that produced a few of the largest PLO fields in European historical past.
PokerNews can be on-site for the €5 million assured pageant operating Jan. 23-30 and can be offering dwell updates for the €5,000 Opener and €10,000 PLO Grand Slam Championship.
The PLO Grand Slam pageant follows a collection final month that included a €10,300 PLO Grand Slam Championship that produced a prize pool of €1.2 million.
There have been profitable aspect occasions as effectively, together with a €5,000 Opener with 210 entries, the largest discipline at that buy-in stage in European historical past, and had greater than 140 distinctive gamers from 36 international locations.
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The subsequent pageant can have much more motion, with highlights together with a $2,500 5-Card Bounty Welcome Occasion with a €300,000 assure, a €5,000 buy-in occasion with a €1 million assure.
There are many different massive ensures, reminiscent of a €10,000 buy-in assured occasion, a €10,000 Progressive Bounty occasion with a €500,000 assure and a €25,000 Excessive Curler with a €500,000 assure.
Some occasions supply particular options. For instance, the 2 gamers with essentially the most bullets within the €5,000 Day 1a Opener will every win a €10,000 Championship ticket.
There will even be an Early Hen bonus that can see gamers who register earlier than the beginning of play getting a ten% improve to their beginning stack, in addition to a 5% bonus for gamers who register throughout the first stage of play.
Just like the earlier cease, the lodge can be complimentary for all €5,000 and €10,000 gamers. Gamers who wish to keep on-site on the venue ought to e book shortly as a result of rooms are filling up quick.
There can be a VIP terminal service accessible for all occasion members. A driver will look forward to gamers close to the “Area On line casino Event” signal on the airport.
Nameless Winner in November
Who received final month’s €10,300 PLO Grand Slam Championship? That is an excellent query, because the winner solely glided by the alias “Benjamin N” and requested to stay nameless. The identical was true for runner-up “Phil Ejri” as each gamers have been a part of a four-way chop that additionally included Spain’s Lautaro Guerra and Greece’s Nikolaos Lampropoulos.
€10,300 PLO Grand Slam Championship Remaining Desk Outcomes
* Denotes four-way deal
Guerra is recent off a bracelet victory within the $100,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha Tremendous Excessive Curler for $2.1 million.
Different gamers who remaining tabled the €10,300 occasion embody Belarmino De Souza, Vasil Medarov and two-time bracelet winner Alex Livingston.
The total schedule for the upcoming PLO Grand Slam collection is out there within the desk under.
2025 PLO Grand Slam Schedule
*Photographs courtesy Diamond Poker Collection
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