Brian Kim Wins Triton Poker Monte Carlo Kickoff Event

The final Triton Poker cease completed up in late Could, with $99.8 million in prize cash paid out throughout its 14-event schedule. The high-stakes tour is again this November, and has kicked off with a bang. The 2024 Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection Monte Carlo WPT International Final Slam $25,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion drew a large discipline of 170 entries, leading to a prize pool of $4,250,000. It took two prolonged days to find out a champion, with American poker professional Brian Kim rising victorious in the long run.

The 2024 World Collection of Poker predominant occasion seventh-place finisher was awarded $941,000 for the win. This was the third-largest rating but for Kim, who hails from Southern California however is now primarily based out of Australia. This was Kim’s first title in a Triton occasion, having cashed 18 instances earlier than on the high-stakes tour. Kim now has greater than $10.5 million in profession earnings, with greater than $6.2 million of that coming from his success in Triton occasions.

“It’s elusive. With all these nice gamers, it’s attainable I may have been coming to Triton for an additional seven years and never profitable one,” stated Kim in his post-game interview on the Triton Poker stay stream after closing out the victory.

Along with the title and the cash, Kim additionally earned 1,092 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors for the win. This was his first title and sixth final-table end of the 12 months. With 4,223 complete factors and practically $4.7 million in POY earnings, Kim is now ranked thirtieth within the 2024 POY race standings introduced by International Poker.

This match attracted most of the greatest names within the match poker recreation, with solely the highest 27 making the cash. Amongst those who ran deep had been bracelet winner Isaac Haxton (twenty first), two-time bracelet winner Artur Martirosian (twentieth), 2019 WSOP predominant occasion champion Hossein Esnan (14th), three-time Triton winner Matthias Eibinger (tenth), and 2016 One Drop Invitational champion Elton Tsang (ninth).

The ultimate desk started with bracelet winner Alex Theologis within the lead and Kim in second chip place. Theologis added to his stack by knocking out Tsang with pocket aces. Ranno Sootla (eighth – $115,000) was the following to fall, along with his A-9 working into pocket aces for two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs.

Regardless of scoring that knockout, Ponakovs quickly joined Sootla on the rail. He ran pocket eights into the pocket queens of Roberto Perez to complete seventh ($159,000). The Latvian now has greater than $21.8 million in profession cashes.

A brief-stacked Dominykas Mikolaitis bought all-in with Q-6 suited trailing the pocket nines of bracelet winner Enrico Camosci. The pocket pair held and Mikolaitis was bounced in sixth place ($218,000). Tom Fuchs then secured $284,000 because the fifth-place finisher when his Okay-Q was unable to greatest the A-2 suited of Theologis.

Kim eradicated Perez subsequent in a battle of the blinds. Kim shoved from the small blind with 7-5 and Perez referred to as off from the massive blind with Q-9. Kim made a pair of fives on the flop and held from there to slim the sphere to 3. Perez earned $356,000 for his efforts, the second-largest payday of his stay match profession.

Kim picked off a bluff try from Theologis throughout three-handed play that left the latter quick. Theologis was left on fumes, even after scoring a double up. He was quickly all-in once more Q-2 going through 8-5 for Kim, which improved to a straight on the flip. Theologis took house $436,000 because the third-place finisher. This was the third-biggest recorded payday for the Greek poker professional

Kim held a slight lead going into heads-up play with Camosci. A preflop coin flip with pocket tens towards A-Q went in favor of Camosci to show the tables, however Kim managed to drag again in entrance after which shut out the win. Camosci settled for $634,000 and 910 POY factors because the runner-up. This was his tenth final-table end of the 12 months. He now sits in fifteenth place within the POY rankings with 4,823 factors and greater than $2.9 million in to-date POY earnings.

Here’s a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:

Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors

1
Brian Kim
$941,000
1092

2
Enrico Camosci
$634,000
910

3
Alexandros Theologis
$436,000
728

4
Roberto Perez
$356,000
546

5
Tom Fuchs
$284,000
455

6
Dominykas Mikolaitis
$218,000
364

7
Aleksejs Ponakovs
$159,000
273

8
Ranno Sootla
$115,000
182

Photograph credit: Triton Poker / Drew Amato.