Kayhan Mokri – Picture Credit score: Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection
Kayhan Mokri is the newest massive winner on the Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection hosted at Sporting Monte-Carlo on Nov. 3. This was the second event of 14 scheduled over the subsequent two weeks in one of the crucial unique enclaves in Europe.
Mokri is not any stranger to event poker success with this being his second seven-figure rating (he additionally gained a high-roller occasion on the European Poker Tour Barcelona cease earlier this yr in September), and the resident of Norway now has 5 event victories general. Mokri has additionally now jumped to thirty sixth place within the Card Participant Participant of the Yr standings.
“In the present day was my day, it’s a momentum factor. I had the very best playing cards at the moment and that’s how it’s,” mentioned Mokri. “I lastly gained one. Now I can loosen up a bit extra.”
The $30,000 buy-in eight-max no-limit maintain’em occasion drew a gifted subject of 144 runners that created a prize pool price $4.32 million. The highest 23 gamers all cashed for a minimum of $50,500.
Notables that made a deep run within the occasion and cashed within the cash earlier than the ultimate 9 had been rapidly set and included last desk bubble boy Quan Zhou (ninth), Wai Kin Yong (14th), Artur Martirosian (fifteenth), Daniel Dvoress (seventeenth), Juan Pardo (18th), Webster Lim (nineteenth), Dan Smith (twentieth), Fedor Holz (twenty first), and Kristen Foxen (twenty third).
With the common stack set at 25 massive blinds when the ultimate desk started the motion was brisk. Mokri was truly final in chips when the ultimate desk started, however he went on a formidable run to take out seven of his opponents among the many last 9 on the trail to victory.
Mokri gained the early pots that he wanted to outlive, after which Dimitar Danchev fell in eighth, and he was rapidly adopted by one other Bulgarian participant when Krasimir Neychev was out in seventh.
Marius Kudzmanas hit the rail subsequent in sixth, and fifth-place honors went to the native Monaco resident and up to date Poker Corridor of Fame inductee Patrik Antonius. Antonius added $298,000 to his profession totals, giving him $23.8 million lifetime in stay tournaments.
Mokri continued to steamroll the sector when he took out Orpen Kisacikoglu in fourth, and Alex Kulev in third to take a 2:1 benefit into the ultimate match towards Paulius Vaitiekunas. Mokri then gained each of the foremost fingers that occurred between the ultimate two gamers to carry the event to an finish.
Vaitiekunas limped with 5
4
within the gap, and Mokri checked his choice holding 63 earlier than the flop fell 6
53. Mokri checked, Vaitiekunas wager, and Mokri raised. Vaitiekunas then dedicated the final of his chips, and Mokri referred to as.
The flip and river modified nothing, and Mokri was topped because the champion. It wasn’t all dangerous for Vaitiekunas with a runner-up payout price $680,000 to take the profession earnings for the Lithuanian above $3.8 million.
Remaining Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Payout
POY
1
Kayhan Mokri
$1,005,000
1,008
2
Paulius Vaitiekunas
$680,000
840
3
Alex Kulev
$454,000
672
4
Orpen Kisacikoglu
$371,000
504
5
Patrik Antonius
$298,000
420
6
Marius Kudzmanas
$231,000
336
7
Krasimir Neychev
$171,000
252
8
Dimitar Danchev
$125,000
168
The Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection in Monte Carlo has solely simply begun, with tournaments working from Nov. 1-14 on the shores of the Mediterranean. Keep tuned to Card Participant for recaps all through this marquee event collection that includes the very best poker gamers on the planet.
