Grand Final Continues with Day 1b After Strong Start

After a thrilling start to the $2,200 Luxon Pay Grand Final, the action resumes today at the stunning Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa with Day 1b of the marquee event at the 2025 Mediterranean Poker Party. Following yesterday’s strong turnout of 345 entries—with 53 players making it through—another wave of hopefuls will take their shot at building a stack toward the $2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Players will start with 200,000 chips and play through 15 levels using the same progressive clock structure as Day 1a: 30-minute levels for the first ten, then 40-minute levels for the final five. The shot clock remains active from the first hand, with five 30-second time banks issued at registration.

Day 1a Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Konstantin Voronin	Russian Federation	3,415,000	85
2	Lars Kamphues	Germany	3,145,000	79
3	Dmitrii Kukhtarev	Serbia	3,125,000	78
4	Gabriel Georgia	Romania	2,640,000	66
5	Banksy	United Kingdom	2,500,000	63
6	Steven Radloff	South Africa	2,495,000	62
7	Danil Umrikhin	Russian Federation	2,335,000	58
8	Alvaro Gonza	Spain	2,230,000	56
9	Robert Fluereci	Romania	2,050,000	51
10	Almas Umarov	Kazakhstan	2,000,000	50

A diverse group of players made the most of their opening flight runs, with Konstantin Voronin leading the way after bagging a massive 3,415,000 chips. He was closely followed by Germany’s Lars Kamphues and Serbia’s Dmitrii Kukhtarev, both of whom also cracked the 3-million mark. The top ten is stacked with international talent, including Steven Radloff of South Africa, UK’s Banksy, and Romanian duo Gabriel Georgia and Robert Fluereci, all of whom are well-positioned to make deep Day 2 runs.

With late registration open through the end of Level 10, a deep international field is expected once again, and players who survive the day will bag their largest stack and return for Day 2 on May 8.

$2,200 Luxon Pay Grand Final Remaining Schedule

Day	Date	Time	Blind Levels
Day 1b	May 6	12:00 p.m.	30 minutes (10 levels) + 40 minutes (5 levels)
Day 1c	May 7	12:00 p.m.	30 minutes (10 levels) + 40 minutes (5 levels)
Day 1d	May 7	8:00 p.m.	20 minutes
Day 2	May 8	12:00 p.m.	40 minutes (5 levels) + 50 minutes (5 levels)
Day 3	May 9	12:00 p.m.	50/45/40/35/30/30/25 minutes¹