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Level: 4
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
2025 PLO Grand Slam Malta
€10,300 Championship
Day: 1a
Event Info
2025 PLO Grand Slam Malta
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
€10,300
Prize Pool
€1,880,000
Total Entries
182
Level
27
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Entries
79
Players Left
21
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Level 3
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Amid the riffling of chips, shuffling of cards, and occasional shouts of “all in” and “pot,” one voice stood apart back in April.
Imad Derwiche likes to have fun at the poker table. He’s not short for table talk, even holding his own against Martin Kabrhel when the two loquacious players shared a table. When he wants to make a pot-sized bet, he usually gives his opponent a “discount.” When he puts another player to a decision, he cautions them to exercise “discipline.”
That fun-loving, casual approach to the game worked wonders, and it didn’t help that Derwiche went on the run of a lifetime to emerge victorious in a field of 148 of the best Pot-Limit Omaha players from Europe and across the world in the Diamond Poker Series PLO Grand Slam Tallinn €10,300 Championship.
“I’m proud of me because I know that the field was exceptional. Many professionals from over Europe. I’m very proud because, you see, poker is a hobby for me. I’m a businessman. I spend my hobby to play poker," Derwiche said after claiming the trophy and €338,370 first prize. "For me to win this tournament, Omaha, with the best players in Europe, for me is exceptional. It’s fantastic. I’m very proud."
Diamond Poker Series PLO Grand Slam Tallinn €10,300 Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imad Derwiche | France | €338,370 |
| 2 | "Gypsy Baron" | n/a | €230,540 |
| 3 | Erik Bystrom | Sweden | €152,280 |
| 4 | Aaron Pahlawani | Austria | €125,490 |
| 5 | Fredrik Lindstrom | Finland | €100,820 |
| 6 | Tom-Aksel Bedell | Norway | €78,960 |
| 7 | Gergo Nagy | Hungary | €59,220 |
| 8 | Lautaro Guerra | Spain | €43,710 |
| 9 | Vivian Saliba | Austria | €33,840 |
Level 3
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
The players have been sent on their first 20-minute break of the day.
Level 3
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Puk Nabuurs, Maxi Lehmanski, and Robert Cowen headed to a flop of 5♥6♠5♣. Nabuurs checked from the big blind, and Lehmanski followed suit in middle position.
Cowen then bet 14,000, which only Lehmanski called. Lehmanski kept check-calling when Cowen sized up to 42,000 on the 2♣ turn, and did so again when Cowen moved all his 110,500 chips over the line on the 6♦ river.
Cowen tabled K♥K♦Q♦4♥ for an overpair, but Lehmanski had the best hand with A♣Q♣7♠5♠. His trips eliminated Cowen mere seconds before the field was sent on a break.
Level 3
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Level 3
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Stian Usterud raised to 7,000 in early position, seeing Carl Bonefeld three-bet to 24,000. Tom-Aksel Bedell, who won this event in Tirana in 2025, was in the big blind.
"Well, I already have two in, I call. No one steals my big blind," he quipped as he called.
Usterud also came along, and the flop fell K♦7♥Q♥. Bedell checked in flow, but Usterud promptly led all in for 66,000. Bonefeld swiftly folded, after which Bedell went into the tank.
After spending two time banks, he decided to call to put his fellow Norwegian at risk.
Stian Usterud: A♥Q♠9♥7♠ 
Tom-Aksel Bedell: K♥10♣9♦8♣
Usterud turned a flush on the 8♥, and the 6♠ river did not provide Bedell with a full house.
"You need [the] chips," Bedell teasingly said as he tossed some of his stack Usterud's way.
Level 3
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Tomasz Kozub raised to 7,000 in middle position. It folded to Carlo van Ravenswoud, who three-bet to 22,000. Kozub called to the 8♦Q♦3♥ flop, where Van Ravenswoud bet the pot of 47,000.
Kozub needed two time banks before he called. Van Ravenswoud moved in his last 27,500 chips on the 7♥ turn. Kozub needed a lot less time with his decision, snap-calling to put Van Ravenswoud at risk.
Carlo van Ravenswoud: A♠A♥7♣3♣
Tomasz Kozub: 8♥6♥5♣4♣
Van Ravenswoud's two pair was in the lead, but the 9♥ river made Kozub a flush to leave Van Ravenswoud without chips.
Van Ravenswoud immediately headed to the reentry desk to fire another shot, joining Espen Myrmo in doing so.
Level: 3
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Level 2
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
Level 2
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
Andreas Klatt, in middle position, placed a pot-sized bet of 27,000 on the 6♠K♦K♥8♥ turn. Hokyiu Lee called in the cutoff, after which the K♣ was put as the river.
Klatt appeared to slow down as he checked it over to Lee, but he sheepishly tabled A♥K♠9♠5♥ for quad kings after the latter had checked back.
