It has been a meteoric rise for Jesse Lonis within the poker world during the last two years. The American professional has racked up quite a few accolades on his poker resume, and now can add a Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Poker Sequence title to the checklist, taking down the $50,000 seven-max occasion at Sporting Monte-Carlo.
“I by no means gave up, which was good. I didn’t stop, or simply get all of it in. I simply stored doing my regular factor, stabbing and it labored out. Clearly you by no means know once you’re going to win, so I simply got here in and performed my finest,” mentioned Lonis to reporters.
Together with the trophy, he pocketed $1,502,000 in prize cash to take his complete match earnings as much as $13.7 million. Though his largest rating stays the $2.3 million he pocketed for one among his two bracelet wins on the WSOP, Lonis has managed 12 different cashes of 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 {dollars} or extra, all of which have come within the final two years.
The occasion drew a discipline of 125 entries to set the full prize pool at $6.25 million. The highest 20 gamers all cashed for no less than $81,000, and high names that made a deep run to money within the occasion included Alex Kulev (eighth), Pieter Aerts (ninth), Wiktor Malinowski (eleventh), Dimitar Danchev (twelfth), Orpen Kisacikoglu (thirteenth), Stephen Chidwick (14th), Michael Soyza (seventeenth), David Yan (18th), and Jonathan Jaffe (twentieth). Pieter Aerts, contemporary off a $2.2 million aspect occasion win three days earlier, completed ninth for one more $150,000.
28 gamers got here again for the ultimate day, with Punnat Punsri within the chip lead. He additionally held the lead when the ultimate desk started, however Lonis was proper on his heels after a powerful comeback from the quick stack.
Mario Mosbock fell by the hands of Punsri in sixth place, and he remained busy by busting Daniel Rezaei in fifth place.
The new streak continued when Punsri took out Leonard Maue in fourth place, however Lonis then scored a well timed double as much as maintain his match run. Punsri was on fireplace and couldn’t be stopped when he took out one of many high high-stakes professionals in poker by sending Dan Smith dwelling in third place. Smith added $650,000 to his profession totals, which now sit at $56.4 million. That’s good for sixth on the all-time cash checklist.
The heads-up remaining had the stacks at 3:1 for Punsri over Lonis earlier than playing cards received into the air, however Lonis scored a double up over the participant from Thailand to realize the benefit.
The stacks had been practically even the following time the ultimate two gamers received all of their chips into the center. Lonis held A-9, and he had the A-3 of Punsri lined and dominated preflop. The board modified nothing, and Punsri earned simply north of 1,000,000 to take his complete match winnings as much as virtually $18 million.
Punsri picked up 935 POY factors for the runner-up end, which vaulted him into fifth place within the 2024 standings heading down the homestretch with 17 remaining tables and practically $5 million in earnings. Along with a number of different high-stakes remaining tables, he additionally gained the $50,000 occasion at Triton Jeju final March for $2 million.
Lonis, nevertheless, banked 1,122 POY factors. The New York native now has 8,402 for the 12 months, which is nice for second place. He solely trails Spanish poker star Adrian Mateos, however will want a giant rating or two within the remaining months of the 12 months to overhaul him.
Remaining Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Payout
POY
1
Jesse Lonis
$1,502,000
1,122
2
Punnat Punsri
$1,021,000
935
3
Dan Smith
$675,000
748
4
Leonard Maue
$556,000
561
5
Daniel Rezaei
$446,000
468
6
Mario Mosbock
$350,000
374
7
Anson Ewe
$262,000
281
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