$5 Million Guarantee Anchors Merit Poker’s Mediterranean Poker Party in Cyprus

The Mediterranean Poker Party returns to Cyprus with a $5 million guaranteed Main Event as the centerpiece of a series offering more than $10 million in total guarantees.

A newly renovated Merit Crystal Cove will host the festival from September 17-27. The schedule includes dozens of events, with PokerNews on-site to live report the Main Event and the $2 million guaranteed Global Poker Championship, according to reporting by PokerNews.

Schedule and Guarantees for the 2025 Series

The $5,400 buy-in Main Event starts on September 23 with the first of four starting flights and plays to a winner on September 26. Satellites offer entry for as little as $800.

Additional high-guarantee events include the $1 million guaranteed Merit Poker Cup, the $2,200 Luxon Pay Mystery Bounty and $3,300 Paradise Mystery Bounty each with $500,000 guarantees, and the $1,500 Mini Main Event with a $500,000 guarantee. The schedule also lists a $1,100 Senior’s event, $550 Women’s event, and $1,100 PLO 5 Double Board Bomb Pot.

Results From Last Year’s Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event

Last year’s Main Event drew 1,196 runners and created a prize pool of $5,740,800. Austria’s Daniel Thaller reached a three-way deal with England’s Timothy Chung and local Cypriot Andreas Mavromoustakis to win the trophy and $786,670. The final table also included Romania’s Razvan Sabau in fourth for $316,000, Russia’s Garik Tamasian in fifth for $229,000, and Poland’s Dawid Smolka in sixth for $162,000.

The series may feature Cyprus native Evagoras Evagorou, who finished ninth in the WSOP $10,000 Main Event for $1 million earlier this summer.

Reporting: PokerNews

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