Mediterranean Poker Party in Cyprus Will Feature $5M Guaranteed Main Event

A newly renovated Merit Crystal Cove in Cyprus is gearing up for the Mediterranean Poker Party, a festival that will run Sept. 17-27 at the luxurious Mediterranean resort.

Merit Poker’s Mediterranean Poker Party will consist of dozens of events and will culminate with the $5,400 buy-in Main Event, an event that comes with a $5 million guarantee attached.

PokerNews will be on-site in Cyprus to live report the Main Event, as well as the $2 million guaranteed Global Poker Championship earlier in the series.

Over $10 Million in Guarantees

Merit Poker events are always popular in the region, and this event has guarantees that back that. In total, the series will offer more than $10 million in guaranteed prize pools.

In addition to the Main Event and Global Poker Championship, other events on the schedule with big guarantees include $1 million guaranteed Merit Poker Cup and the $2,200 Luxon Pay Mystery Bounty and $3,300 Paradise Mystery Bounty, which both come with $500,000 guarantees attached.

There’s also the $1,500 Mini Main Event, which also offers a $500,000 guarantee. Other notable events on the schedule include a $1,100 Senior’s event, $550 Women’s event and a $1,100 PLO 5 Double Board Bomb Pot event for the mixed game crowd.

The $5,400 Main Event will kick off on Sept. 23 with the first of four starting flights before playing to a winner on Sept. 26. There will also be several satellite opportunities for players to get into the $5 million guaranteed event for as little as $800.

Will Thaller Win Another Title?

Last year’s Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event drew 1,196 runners for a prize pool of $5,740,800 as Austria’s Daniel Thaller reached a three-way deal with England’s Timothy Chung and local Cyprian Andreas Mavromoustakis to win the trophy and $786,670.

The final table also included Romania’s Razvan Sabau (4th – $316,000), Russia’s Garik Tamasian (5th – $229,000) and Poland’s Dawid Smolka (6th – $162,000).

2025 Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event Final Table Results

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We may also see an appearance from Cyprus native Evagoras Evagorou, who earlier this summer finished ninth in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Main Event for $1 million — the deepest Main Event run ever by a Cyprian.

The full schedule for the upcoming Mediterranean Poker Party is available in the table below.

2026 Mediterranean Poker Party Schedule

Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outside Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for three Global Poker Awards for his writing.