The Diamond Poker Series is bringing its Pot-Limit Omaha Grand Slam to Tallinn for the third stop of its 2026 season, and it is doing so at a new venue. The series moves to Olympic Park Casino for September 15-22, 2026, with the schedule staying exactly as planned: 21 events and the two flagship events the circuit has built its reputation on: the €5,200 5k Million and the €10,400 10k Championship. The editorial team at poker.pro will be producing daily recap articles throughout the week in partnership with OlyBet, with all coverage also published at OlyBetEvents.com.

Olympic Park Casino: The Right Room for the Right Series

Diamond has expanded its reach in Tallinn by bringing the series to Olympic Park Casino, the Baltic region’s premier dedicated festival room. It has hosted the WSOP Circuit Tallinn, the Coolbet Open, the Queens of Tallinn, and The Festival Weekend Tallinn in 2026 alone, underlining its status as the go-to venue for international poker in Estonia. It is a 24/7 operation with the infrastructure, experienced staff, and table count that multi-day, high-stakes festivals demand.

For Olympic Park Casino, hosting the Diamond Poker Series is a statement. This is Europe’s premier dedicated PLO circuit, a series built around buy-ins that start at €5,200 and reach €15,300, attracting the continent’s strongest Omaha players across four countries in a single season. Having that circuit arrive in Tallinn recognizes what the venue has built: the infrastructure, the reputation, and the player community to host something at this level. The room has earned events like this, and Diamond has chosen well.

For a PLO series built around €5,200 and €10,400 buy-in events, the combination of professional tournament management, an established cash game culture, and serious facilities makes Olympic Park Casino the natural next step for Diamond in Tallinn. The schedule does not change. The ambition does not change. The room just gets bigger.

What Diamond Is and Why It Matters

The Diamond Poker Series is Europe’s premier dedicated Pot-Limit Omaha circuit. Four stops per season: Malta, Tirana, Tallinn, and a fourth to be announced, each carrying a unified season-long leaderboard that rewards consistency across the full circuit. The top-ranked players at season’s end 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 players on the circuit since Malta in January.

The series centers on two flagship events at every stop. The 5k Million is a €5,200 PLO tournament with multiple starting flights, giving players maximum flexibility to enter. The 10k Championship is a €10,400 PLO event for players who want the circuit’s most serious single competition. Both events feature 45-minute levels on Day 1, extending to 60-minute levels on Day 2 and Final Day, and both use a 20-second preflop shot clock and a 30-second postflop shot clock. This is high-stakes PLO taken seriously.

Between the two flagships, the Tallinn schedule packs in 19 more events across eight days: two High Rollers at €15,300 (including a Quatro Bounty edition on the final day), turbo formats in five- and six-card Omaha and Omaha mix, a €4,200 Bounty Turbo, a €2,200 Omaha 4/5/6 Card Mix, stage tournaments feeding into the main events, and satellites starting at €550. The week is structured so that players of every commitment level can build their way in.

The Hidden Value: Stage Tournaments and Satellites

The headline buy-ins are €5,200 and €10,400. But Diamond 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, feeding directly into 5k Million Day 1A on Thursday. Finish in the top 20%, and your stack advances into the full event. That means for €1,100, a player 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 on 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 runs into 5k Million Day 1A. 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. 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.

Hotel and Travel

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The Full Schedule

Scotty Nguyen Is Coming to Tallinn

The confirmed headline name for Diamond Poker Series Tallinn is Scotty Nguyen, the Prince of Poker, arriving in Tallinn with Teddy.poker as part of a European tour. Nguyen is a five-time WSOP bracelet winner and WPT champion, most famously as the 1998 WSOP Main Event champion, whose heads-up call against Kevin McBride produced one of the most replayed moments in poker history: “You call, it’s gonna be all over, baby.” He is also the winner of the 2008 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship, making him the first player ever to win both the WSOP Main Event and the Players’ Championship. Over $12 million in recorded career earnings, 46 WSOP cashes, and a catchphrase (“that’s poker, baby”) that has outlasted most of his contemporaries.

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. He is 63, still playing, and coming to Tallinn. More big names are expected as the festival approaches.

Nguyen’s presence adds a dimension to the Tallinn stop that goes beyond the numbers. He is one of the game’s genuine personalities, and having him at the tables at Olympic Park Casino is the kind of thing that makes a festival feel like an event.

The Season Leaderboard

Hungary’s Gergo Nagy leads the 2026 Diamond Poker Series season rankings with 89,666 points and €322,230 in season earnings from nine events. The Netherlands’ Nino Pansier sits second with €336,105 from 12 events. Germany’s Jonas Kronwitter is third with €287,200 from six events. Tallinn is the last confirmed stop of the 2026 season, with a fourth venue still to be announced. For every ranked player, these eight days at Olympic Park Casino are where the season gets decided.

Daily articles from poker.pro will be published throughout the Diamond Poker Series Tallinn week, covering everything you need to know from each day of the festival. All coverage will also appear at OlyBetEvents.com in partnership with OlyBet. Follow updates at diamondpokerseries.com and on the PokerLens app, which carries live chip counts, waiting lists, and payout information for every event throughout the week.

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