Hungarian Wins $1.4 Million In High Stakes Triton Poker Pot-Limit Omaha Tournament

Hungarian pot-limit Omaha specialist Gergo Nagy secured a career-best match rating this week in Korea, taking down the 2025 Triton Poker $50,000 PLO event for his first trident trophy and the highest prize of $1,360,000. The 42-year-old now has greater than $2.9 million in recorded scores on the circuit, with the overwhelming majority coming within the fashionable four-card poker variant.

Previous to this win, Nagy’s prime rating had been a $431,100 payday earned because the runner-up in a $50,000 buy-in PLO occasion eventually yr’s Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl Cyprus pageant. The winner of that occasion was Finnish PLO star Joni Jouhkimainen, who wound up ending second on this match.

“It was actually good for me that I can take this revenge,” mentioned Nagy of his high-stakes heads-up rematch with Jouhkimainen in a winner’s interview with Triton employees.

Nagy was additionally awarded 1,020 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion of this occasion. This was his second final-table end up to now, having additionally positioned seventh within the €10,300 buy-in occasion on the PLO Grand Slam Tirana in Albania. His 1,230 whole factors are sufficient to place him inside the highest 60 within the 2025 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.

The highest 19 finishers earned a share of the $5.6 million prize pool on this occasion, with notables like Chris Brewer (18th), Probability Kornuth (seventeenth), Lauaro Guerra (sixteenth), Isaac Haxton (fifteenth), Santhosh Suvarna (tenth), Patrik Antonious (eighth), and Eelis Parssinen (seventh) working deep.

Six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus was the primary to fall on the official closing desk, together with his AQ104 unable to fade the Q654 of Xu Liang. Ausmus earned $318,000 because the sixth-place finisher. This was already his fifth final-table end of 2025, with one title gained earlier this collection in a $25,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion that sported a $1.9 million prime prize. Ausmus now has $2.6 million in to-date POY earnings and three,546 factors, sufficient to maintain him atop the POY leaderboard.

Tom Vogelsang bought the final of his quick stack in preflop with AQQ2 going through the AJJ9 of Jouhkimainen. The Finn made aces and nines to win the pot, sending Vogelsang to the rail with $408,000. The Dutch professional moved inside the highest 30 within the POY race with three closing tables and one title in 2025.

Regardless of scoring a number of early knockouts on the closing desk, Xu was the subsequent to be despatched packing. His final ten huge blinds went in with Ok1054 trailing the OkOkQ2 of Gruffudd Pugh Jones, who made queens filled with deuces to lock up the pot. Xu was awarded $505,000 because the fourth-place finisher.

Jones slid down the chip counts throughout three-handed play. The UK resident ended up getting the final of his quick stack in with pocket kings, however was overwhelmed by a flush for Jouhkimainen. Jones was awarded a career-best payday of $611,000 for his third-place exhibiting.

Heads-up play started with Jouhkimainen holding a 3:1 chip lead over Nagy. The 2 have been quickly in a useless warmth, although, because of a double up with pocket aces for the Hungarian. After some back-and-forth, Nagy held a slight lead in time for the ultimate hand of the match.

Nagy limped from the button with AAQ9 and Jouhkimainen raised from the large blind with OkQ106. Nagy limp-raised and Jouhkimainen known as to see a flop of Ok103. The chip bought in proper there with Jouhkimainen’s kings up within the lead in the intervening time. The 9 on the flip gave each gamers flush attracts, with Nagy’s being finest. He additionally had outs to journeys, a straight, and better two pair. The final possibility is what would up coming in because of the three, which gave Nagy aces and threes for the win. Jouhkimainen earned $930,000 because the runner-up, a brand new excessive rating for the bracelet winner from Helsinki.

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