The Diamond Poker Series PLO Grand Slam is coming to Tallinn this September. Eight days, 21 events, over €2,500,000 guaranteed across the schedule, and the most PLO-focused festival to ever fire in the Baltics. It runs September 15-22 at the Bombay Club in Tallinn, with players staying at the Nordic Hotel Forum. And poker.pro is there with VIP access for anyone who wants it.
About the Diamond Poker Series
The Diamond Poker Series bills itself as the Home of PLO, and it has earned the description. The series runs four stops per year across Europe, each built around a €1,000,000 guaranteed 5k Million and a €1,000,000 guaranteed 10k Championship as its two pillars, with a full supporting schedule of High Rollers, Satellites, Turbos, Bounty events, and format-specific Omaha tournaments around them. The 2026 season has already run in Malta and Tirana before arriving in Tallinn as its third stop, with a fourth to be announced.
The series runs a season-long ranking system that accumulates points from every eligible event across all four stops. The top players at the end of the season secure fully covered buy-ins for the following year. With 169 players already ranked in 2026, the Tallinn stop carries genuine season-defining weight for the players who have been on the circuit all year.
About the Bombay Club
The Diamond Poker Series Tallinn stop plays at the Bombay Club, one of the most distinctive poker venues in Northern Europe. Located in central Tallinn, the Bombay Club is an upscale private club with a serious cash game culture and a reputation for attracting the kind of player who expects the room to match the stakes. It is not Olympic Park Casino. It is smaller, quieter, and designed for poker players who want a proper room rather than a festival floor. For a PLO series built around €5,200 and €10,400 buy-in events, that atmosphere is exactly right.
The venue runs the Yolo Wallet cashless payment system as its official app, allowing players to register, tip, and settle buy-ins directly from their phone. The LetsPoker app carries the full schedule, live clock, and bust-out updates for anyone following from outside the room.
Scotty Nguyen Is Coming to Tallinn
The Diamond Poker Series Tallinn stop is bringing some serious names to the Bombay Club this September. The confirmed headline name is Scotty Nguyen, the Prince of Poker, arriving in Tallinn with Teddy.poker as part of a broader European tour that also takes him to the WSOP Circuit Malta. More big names are expected as the festival approaches. This is the kind of event that attracts serious players, and the field at the previous Tirana stop, which featured names like Robert Cowen, Dario Alioto, and Jonas Kronwitter at the top of the season leaderboard, gives you a sense of the level.
Teddy.poker has put together a European tour for Scotty that covers some of the best stops on the current circuit. Tallinn and the Diamond Poker Series PLO Grand Slam is one of them. The WSOP Circuit Malta is another. If you want to follow along or be part of it, the contact details are in the VIP section below.
If you have been in poker long enough to remember the 1998 WSOP Main Event, you already know what Scotty Nguyen means to the game. If you need the brief version: he is a five-time WSOP bracelet winner, a WPT champion, and the only player in history to win both the WSOP Main Event and the $50,000 Players’ Championship. He won the 1998 Main Event heads-up against Kevin McBride with one of the most famous calls in poker history, looked his opponent in the eye and said “you call, it’s gonna be all over, baby” and watched McBride call. It was all over. That moment, that line, and the persona behind it made Scotty Nguyen one of the most recognisable faces poker has ever produced.
Born in Nha Trang, Vietnam in 1962, Nguyen left the country as a teenager during the conflict, eventually landing in Los Angeles and then Las Vegas, where he worked as a busboy and taught himself to deal before figuring out he was better suited to playing than working. His route from refugee camp to the Main Event champion’s seat is one of the genuine poker stories of the past fifty years. He has over $12,000,000 in live tournament earnings, 46 WSOP cashes, and a catchphrase, “that’s poker, baby,” that has outlasted most of his contemporaries. He is 63, he is still playing, and he is coming to Tallinn.
The Hidden Value: Stage Tournaments and Satellites
The headline buy-ins are €5,200 and €10,400. But the Diamond Poker Series has built a proper route in for players who do not want to fire full price into both majors on day one.
The Stage Tournaments are the entry point that makes the most sense for most players. On Tuesday September 15 and Wednesday September 16, two Stage Tournaments run at €1,100 each. Finish in the top 20% and your stack advances directly into the 5k Million Day 1A on Thursday. That means for €1,100, you can be sitting at the same table as everyone who paid €5,200, with a competitive stack already built. The same structure applies for the 10k Championship: a €2,200 Stage Tournament runs Saturday September 19, with the top 20% advancing their stack into Day 1 of the €10,400 event.
Below the Stage Tournaments sit the satellites. The €550 Satellite on Thursday September 17 guarantees ten seats into 5k Million Day 1A, meaning for €550 you can satellite into an event with a €1,000,000 guarantee. A second €550 Satellite runs Friday September 18 for Day 1B. A third runs Saturday September 19 for anyone chasing a Day 2 entry. The €1,650 Satellite on Sunday September 20 targets the 10k Championship with a €31,200 guarantee covering entry fees. These are not soft routes. But they are real routes, and a good player who wants to play the biggest events at this festival has multiple buy-in levels to work through before touching the full price.
The 2026 Diamond Poker Series Tallinn Schedule
Twenty-one events across eight days, anchored by two €1,000,000 guaranteed tournaments. The 5k Million runs Day 1A on Thursday September 17, Day 1B on Friday September 18, Day 2 on Saturday September 19, and the Final Day on Sunday September 20. The 10k Championship fires Day 1 on Sunday September 20, Day 2 on Monday September 21, and the Final Day on Tuesday September 22. Both events carry unlimited re-entries during registration and a shot clock of 20 seconds preflop, 30 seconds postflop.
| Date | Time | Event | Buy-in | GTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 15 Sep | 18:00 | Stage Tournament: 5k Million Day 1A | €1,100 | €1,000,000 |
| Wed 16 Sep | 18:00 | Stage Tournament: 5k Million Day 1A | €1,100 | €1,000,000 |
| Wed 16 Sep | 18:00 | High Roller | €15,300 | €200,000 |
| Thu 17 Sep | 12:00 | Satellite: 5k Million Day 1A | €550 | €26,000 |
| Thu 17 Sep | 15:00 | 5k Million: Day 1A | €5,200 | €1,000,000 |
| Thu 17 Sep | 22:00 | Omaha 5 Card Turbo | €1,100 | €30,000 |
| Fri 18 Sep | 12:00 | Satellite: 5k Million Day 1B | €550 | €26,000 |
| Fri 18 Sep | 15:00 | 5k Million: Day 1B | €5,200 | €1,000,000 |
| Fri 18 Sep | 22:00 | Omaha 6 Card Turbo | €1,100 | €30,000 |
| Sat 19 Sep | 11:00 | Satellite: 5k Million Day 2 | €550 | €15,600 |
| Sat 19 Sep | 14:00 | 5k Million: Day 2 | €5,200 | €1,000,000 |
| Sat 19 Sep | 19:00 | Stage Tournament: 10k Championship Day 1 | €2,200 | €1,000,000 |
| Sun 20 Sep | 13:00 | 5k Million: Final Day | €1,000,000 | |
| Sun 20 Sep | 13:00 | Satellite: 10k Championship Day 1 | €1,650 | €31,200 |
| Sun 20 Sep | 16:00 | 10k Championship: Day 1 | €10,400 | €1,000,000 |
| Sun 20 Sep | 22:00 | Bomb Pot | €1,100 | €30,000 |
| Mon 21 Sep | 14:00 | 10k Championship: Day 2 | €10,400 | €1,000,000 |
| Mon 21 Sep | 19:00 | Bounty Turbo | €4,200 | €50,000 |
| Tue 22 Sep | 13:00 | 10k Championship: Final Day | €1,000,000 | |
| Tue 22 Sep | 17:00 | High Roller: Quatro Bounty | €15,300 | €200,000 |
| Tue 22 Sep | 20:00 | Omaha 4/5/6 Card Mix | €2,200 |
Full schedule PDF and blind structures are available at diamondpokerseries.com.
VIP Experience and Play and Stay: Contact poker.pro and Teddy.poker
poker.pro and Teddy.poker are offering a VIP experience at the Diamond Poker Series Tallinn for players who want more than just a tournament entry. If you want to know what that looks like in practice, what is included, how to arrange it, and whether it fits what you are looking for, reach out directly.
The Diamond Poker Series also runs a Play and Stay package that covers your hotel at the Nordic Hotel Forum for the full festival when you qualify through the tournaments or cash tables. If you want help understanding which route makes sense for your situation or want to combine the Play and Stay with the poker.pro VIP experience, we can help with that too.
Contact us at [email protected] or reach Teddy directly on WhatsApp at +44 7366 474454 using the code PokerPro. We will take it from there.
The festival starts September 15. Tallinn in September is a good place to be.
- Article originally produced at poker.pro.
