The primary occasion of the Triton Poker Jeju pageant, a $15,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event, set a tour report with 379 entrants (266 distinctive gamers). Via three occasions, it is not even the most important event of the collection.
Data are being damaged in South Korea this week as the brand new excessive curler collection is underway. Zhao Hongjun received the primary occasion of the collection for $818,000, the largest chunk of the $5,685,000 prize pool. Yuzhu Wang took second place for $975,000.
Jason Koon (tenth for $86,000), Adrian Mateos (twelfth for $74,000), and Espen Jorstad (twenty seventh for $41,000) had been among the many 63 gamers who cashed. The second occasion of the collection, $20,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em 8-Handed, had a fair bigger prize pool of $6,960,000 from 348 gamers. Tuck Wai Foo took it down for $1,350,000, beating Mario Mosbock ($856,000) heads-up for the title.
Ethan “Rampage” Yau (14th for $90,000), Alexander “Wolfgang” Seibt (twenty second for $62,000), and Chris Brewer (thirty third for $41,000) all left the event with cash of their pockets.
Triton Poker Report is Set
The Triton Poker attendance report was set in Occasion #1, but it surely was surpassed in Occasion #3 with 392 entrants registered for the $25,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em 8-Handed event. There have been nonetheless 73 gamers remaining, on the time of publishing.
Two gamers on this occasion will stroll away with a seven-figure payday, with first place set to pay $1,892,000, and the runner-up will obtain $1,193,000. The cash bubble was quick approaching once we ran this story as the highest 63 will likely be paid. A min-cash is value $41,500.
A number of the gamers nonetheless standing because the bubble looms embrace chip chief Stephen Track, Jeremy Ausmus, Phil Ivey, Kristen Foxen, and Fedor Holz. The checklist of notables who’ve already busted embrace Joey Weissman, Ren Lin, Rainer Kempe, and Santhosh Suvarna.
The earlier largest Triton Poker subject had 305 entrants in a March 2024 $25,000 buy-in occasion. The Jeju collection runs till March 15 and options 20 excessive curler occasions, two of which price $100,000 or extra to enter.
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