Malaysia’s Tuck Wai Foo outlasted an enormous discipline of 348 entries within the $20,000 no-limit maintain’em eight max occasion on the 2025 Triton Jeju competition, $1,350,000 because the champion. Previous to this triumph, Foo had but to report a six-figure match rating, not to mention seven-figure victory.
Foo now has two titles to his title, having beforehand taken down a facet occasion finally yr’s Malaysia Poker Dream VIII competition for $92,427. That 15,000 Malaysian ringgit occasion (~$3,100 USD) had 136 entrants.
With this win, Foo now has greater than $1.5 million in lifetime earnings to his title.
He additionally earned 1,440 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors because the champion, sufficient to maneuver him into 18th place within the 2025 POY standings introduced by World Poker.
The sizable turnout for this occasion constructed a prize pool of $6,960,000, with the highest 55 finishers incomes a share of that haul. The ultimate 11 all walked away with a minimum of six-figure payouts, together with bracelet winner Ben Heath (eleventh – $110,000). Different notables who ran deep however fell wanting the ultimate desk included bracelet winner Roman Hrabec (seventeenth), World Poker Tour champion Matas Cimbolas (fifteenth), and bracelet winner Ethan ‘Rampage’ Yau (14th).
The primary knockouts on the official last desk got here through a three-way all-in, with Calvin Lee’s A
4
squaring off towards the A10 of Jon Ander Vallinas and the 77 of Igor Yaroshevskyy. The board got here down 8
7
6107 to offer Yaroshevskyy quads and the double elimination. Lee earned $164,000 for his eighth-place displaying, whereas Vallinas secured $227,000.
A MASSIVE spot for Igor Yaroshevskyy on the Triton $20K last desk in Jeju! All-in with the perfect hand towards two opponents, this hand may set the tone for the remainder of the match! pic.twitter.com/P2HSWeiU8W
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) February 28, 2025
Andrei Kotelnikov (sixth – $305,000) additionally misplaced his previous couple of blinds to Yaroshevskyy, who was in the midst of the pack after his knockout spree. Ren Lin quickly adopted, along with his A-Q unable to carry towards the A-4 of Yaroshevskyy, who had open shoved from the small blind. Lin known as and was forward till the board introduced a 4 to show the tables. Lin was awarded $396,000 because the fifth-place finisher, rising his profession earnings to greater than $15.5 million within the course of.
CoinPoker ambassador Mario Mosbock misplaced an enormous all-in with A8 towards the A4 of four-time bracelet winner Michael Gathy early in four-handed play to be left with a single huge blind.
Mosbock then mounted a livid comeback, with a number of double-ups resulting in him overtaking the lead once more forward of the following elimination. As destiny would have it, Gathy was the participant who subsequent hit the rail. He ran J-9 into the A-7 suited of Mosbock. A double-paired board noticed ace excessive play to earn Mosbock the pot. Gathy settled for $501,000 because the fourth-place finisher. The Belgian now has practically $5.6 million in lifetime cashes underneath his belt.
Mosbock’s resurgence continued because of his OkayOkay besting the J10 of Yaroshevskyy. Neither participant related with the paired runout and Yaroshevskyy was eradicated in third place ($619,000). The 2-time Triton winner from Ukraine now has greater than $11.2 million in profession cashes.
Heads-up play started with Mosbock holding simply over a 2:1 chip lead over Foo. Q-7 beat A-Okay to see that hole narrowed significantly. Then, a profitable bluff for Foo helped propel him into the outright lead. Mosbock battled his method again in entrance, although, forward of the important thing all-in of the match. He shoved with 44 from the button and Foo known as off his final 13 huge blinds with Okay2. The board got here down AOkayJ67 and Foo made the nut flush to double right into a roughly 6:1 lead.
The ultimate hand noticed Mosbock get all-in with Okay5 main the 95 of Foo. Mosbock stayed forward by means of the A1010 flop and the three flip, however the 9 on the top despatched the pot and the title to Foo.
Mosbock earned $856,000 because the runner-up. The Austrian poker professional fell simply wanting his third Triton title, however grew his profession earnings to just about $15.9 million.
Last Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Foo Wai
$1,350,000
1440
2
Mario Mosbock
$856,000
1200
3
Igor Yaroshevskyy
$619,000
960
4
Michael Gathy
$501,000
720
5
Ren Lin
$396,000
600
6
Andrey Kotelnikov
$305,000
480
7
Jon Vallinas
$227,000
360
8
Calvin Lee
$164,000
240
Picture credit: Triton Poker.
