Chinese Player Wins Record-Setting Triton Poker $100,000 Event In Jeju

Triton Poker’s largest turnout for a $100,000 principal occasion had beforehand been 216 entries. That report was not solely surpassed on this 12 months’s Triton Poker Jeju $100,000 no-limit hold’em main event, it was nicely and really smashed. A complete of 285 entries have been made by the point registration closed, leading to a staggering $28,500,000 prize pool.

The unbelievable surge in attendance resulted in seven-figure payouts for the highest six, with multi-million-dollar scores for the highest 4 and $5,555,000 for the eventual champion. That determine was finally awarded to China’s Huang Wenjie, who overcame a stacked ultimate desk to safe his first Triton title and his first seven-figure rating.

The 2024 World Collection of Poker On-line $10,000 heads-up no-limit maintain’em champion now has greater than $6.9 million in profession earnings beneath his belt. He additionally secured 2,280 Card Player Player of the Year factors, sufficient to catapult him into seventh place within the 2025 POY standings offered by Global Poker regardless of this being his first certified rating of the 12 months.

The highest 47 finishers earned a share of the big prize pool on this occasion, with large names like Isaac Haxton (twenty sixth), Michael Soyza (twenty first), Alex Foxen (nineteenth), and $25,000 WPT World Slam occasion winner from this sequence Anatoly Filatov (eleventh) all working deep.

Two-time bracelet winner Santhosh Suvarna was out in entrance when the ultimate desk was set, with Huang not too far behind in third chip place. Suvarna scored the primary knockout, successful a race towards the A-J of James Hopkins (ninth – $570,000) with pocket tens. Clemen Deng quickly adopted in eighth place ($695,000). He misplaced the vast majority of his stack when his pocket aces have been cracked by the Ok-10 of back-to-back WSOP $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship winner Dan Cates. Not lengthy after that, Deng’s remaining chips have been captured by Huang, who received with a set of fives.

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Cates, identified to many as ‘Jungleman,’ then discovered pocket aces himself and had them maintain towards the A-Ok suited of Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (seventh – $946,000) to slender the sphere to 6 contenders.

European Poker Tour champion Aliaksei Boika was the following to fall, together with his A-J unable to finest the Ok-10 suited of two-time bracelet winner Artur Martirosian. The Russian flopped a pair of tens and held from there to finish Boika’s run in sixth place ($1,288,000).

Bracelet winner and Triton champion Sam Greenwood was coolered out of this occasion, together with his pocket jacks working into the pocket kings of Huang. Greenwood earned $1,687,000 because the fifth-place finisher, the fifth-largest profession money for the Canadian poker professional. He now has greater than $42.1 million in recorded scores beneath his belt after this efficiency.

Suvarna was on the backside of the leaderboard throughout four-handed play. He managed one double up, however was quickly all-in once more with 107 (shoved from the button) trailing the Ok5 of Huang, who referred to as the six blind shove from the large blind. Suvarna flopped prime pair, however the flip introduced a king to place Huang again out in entrance. The river was a clean and Suvarna headed to the payout desk to gather his newest large match payday of $2,140,000. The Indian participant now has almost $17.4 million in lifetime cashes.

The following large hand spelled the top of Martirosian’s match. He limped from the small blind for 600,000 with J10 and Huang raised to 2,000,000 from the large blind with 55. Martirosian referred to as and the flop got here down 1053. Martirosian checked and Huang wager 2,000,000. Martirosian referred to as and the flip introduced the A. Martirosian checked and Huang wager 6,000,000. Martirosian referred to as and the three accomplished the board. Martirosian checked once more and Huang went for all of it. Martirosian went into the tank after which made the decision for his final 8,000,000 solely to be proven a successful full home. Martirosian was awarded $2,644,000 because the third-place finisher. He now has greater than $27.5 million in profession earnings.

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Huang entered heads-up play with 52,775,000 to Cates’ 18,475,000. The lead was prolonged forward of the ultimate hand, which noticed Cates shove from the button for 14 large blinds with J9. Huang rapidly referred to as with OkQ and the board got here down QQJJ5 to present each gamers boats. Cates’ was second-best, although, and he was eradicated because the runner-up. The $3,528,000 payout was a brand new excessive rating for Cates, who grew his lifetime haul to $17.7 million with this run.

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