Punnat Punsri is thus far forward on Thailand’s all-time cash record that the opposite 99 gamers that comprise the highest 100 are nonetheless a number of million greenback’s wanting his profession earnings with their collective hauls mixed, which clock in at $17.3 million. Punsri has cashed for greater than $23.6 million {dollars} on the match circuit, along with his newest rating being certainly one of his largest.
On Sunday, Mar. 9 Punsri defeated a area of 93 entries within the 2025 Triton Poker Jeju $125,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion, incomes $2,594,555 because the champion. This was the third profession Triton victory for Punsri, who has accrued greater than $19.9 million of his lifetime haul in Triton tournaments.
This was the second final-table end of the yr for Punsri, who positioned eighth in a excessive curler occasion on the Asian Poker Tour Manila Traditional final month. This win in Korea got here with 1,080 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors, sufficient to maneuver Punsri inside attain of the highest 60 within the 2025 POY standings offered by World Poker.
The prize pool for this occasion swelled to $11,625,000, with the highest 15 finishers making the cash. Loads of match legends ran deep, together with five-time Triton winner Phil Ivey (fifteenth), four-time Triton champion Fedor Holz (14th), and five-time Triton victor Danny Tang (thirteenth). There have been additionally a number of two-time champions on the tour that ran cashed, together with Daniel Dvoress (eleventh), Michael Soyza (tenth), and Dan Smith (eighth).
Smith was certainly one of two extreme brief stacks to make the unofficial ultimate desk of eight. The opposite was Kiat Lee, who adopted Smith to the rail when his A-8 was unable to finest the Okay-J of latest $150,000 buy-in occasion winner Joao Vieira. Lee earned %40,000 because the seventh-place finisher.
Two-time Triton winner Ben Tollerene misplaced two large all-ins, each instances with A-Okay. The second time round was in opposition to the pocket jacks of Vieira, who had him coated. That despatched the American packing in sixth place ($686,000).
The subsequent large conflict pitted Vieira’s A-Q in opposition to the pocket jacks of Punsri, with the pair holding to ship the Portuguese professional to the payout desk in fifth place. Vieira earned $878,000 for his efforts, bringing his haul for the competition to greater than $5.5 million.
A 3-way all-in narrowed the sphere from 4 to 2 in a flash. Two-time Triton winner Chris Brewer was in danger with J
10 trailing the Q
J
of Mikita Badziakouski., a five-time Triton champion. Christoph Vogelsang had each of his opponents coated and held the very best hand with AQ. The German made a pair of aces on the flip and held from there to attain the double knockout, with Brewer incomes $1,093,000 because the fourth-place finisher whereas Badziakouski secured $1,348,000 for his podium exhibiting.
Punsri and Vogelsang hashed out a deal to redistribute the remaining prize cash a bit, locking up $2,504,555 and $2,456,445, respectively whereas leaving the title and $90,000 to play for. Punsri held roughly a 5:4 chip benefit on the time.
The decisive hand of the match noticed Punsri make two pair on the river whereas Vogelsang wound up with a busted flush draw. Vogelsang went for a giant bluff, however it was picked off to see him left on fumes. The very subsequent hand, he was all-in for lower than a giant blind and was eradicated because the runner-up. Vogelsang now has almost $40.5 million in profession cashes to his title after this newest multi-million-dollar rating, the fifth of his profession.
Ultimate Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Punnat Punsri
$2,594,555
1080
2
Christoph Vogelsang
$2,456,445
900
3
Mikita Badziakouski
$1,348,000
720
4
Chris Brewer
$1,093,000
540
5
Joao Vieira
$878,000
450
6
Benjamin Tollerene
$686,000
360
7
Kiat Lee
$540,000
270
Picture credit: Triton Poker.
