Big Money Guaranteed as €10,300 PLO Grand Slam Championship Gets Underway
The time has arrived for Day 1 of the flagship event of the PLO Grand Slam, the €10,300 PLO Championship. Last edition, anonymous player "Benjamin N" was crowned the champion at Arena Casino Tirana and took home €219,200 after a four-way deal, conquering the likes of Lautaro Guerra and Alex Livingston along the way
2024 €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
"Benjamin N" bested a field of 128 entries last time around, but Diamond Poker Series has raised the stakes for this edition, providing a huge guarantee of €2,000,000 for the PLO Championship, double that of last time. Some 70 more entries are needed to reach that number, so the organization expects a big turnout.
As with every tournament this series, players seated at the kickoff at 5 p.m. local time will receive 10 percent extra chips on top of their starting stack of 200,000. Meanwhile, those who enter in the first level get five percent more, incentivizing early action.
Day 1 will play levels of 45 minutes, while the levels will increase to 60 minutes on Day 2 and Day 3. Day 1 starts with blinds of 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante. The late registration will remain open throughout the day, not closing until the third level of Day 2, and unlimited reentries are available for the unlucky ones. The day will end after Level 9: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 big blind ante, expected to be around 1 a.m. local time.
€10,300 PLO Championship Day 1 Structure
| Level | Duration (min) | Small Blind | Big Blind | Big Blind Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 45 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 2 | 45 | 1,000 | 1,500 | 1,500 |
| 3 | 45 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
| 4 | 45 | 1,000 | 2,500 | 2,500 |
| 5 | 45 | 1,500 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| 6 | 45 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 |
| 7 | 45 | 2,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| 8 | 45 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 |
| 9 | 45 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 |
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