Hungarian pot-limit Omaha specialist Gergo Nagy secured a career-best match rating this week in Korea, taking down the 2025 Triton Poker $50,000 PLO occasion for his first trident trophy and the highest prize of $1,360,000. The 42-year-old now has greater than $2.9 million in recorded scores on the circuit, with the overwhelming majority coming within the fashionable four-card poker variant.
Previous to this win, Nagy’s prime rating had been a $431,100 payday earned because the runner-up in a $50,000 buy-in PLO occasion ultimately yr’s Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl Cyprus competition. The winner of that occasion was Finnish PLO star Joni Jouhkimainen, who wound up ending second on this match.
“It was actually good for me that I can take this revenge,” stated Nagy of his high-stakes heads-up rematch with Jouhkimainen in a winner’s interview with Triton employees.
Nagy was additionally awarded 1,020 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors because the champion of this occasion. This was his second final-table end to this point, having additionally positioned seventh within the €10,300 buy-in occasion on the PLO Grand Slam Tirana in Albania. His 1,230 complete factors are sufficient to place him inside the highest 60 within the 2025 POY standings introduced by World Poker.
The highest 19 finishers earned a share of the $5.6 million prize pool on this occasion, with notables like Chris Brewer (18th), Likelihood Kornuth (seventeenth), Lauaro Guerra (sixteenth), Isaac Haxton (fifteenth), Santhosh Suvarna (tenth), Patrik Antonious (eighth), and Eelis Parssinen (seventh) working deep.
Six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus was the primary to fall on the official remaining desk, along with his A
Q
104
unable to fade the Q
654 of Xu Liang. Ausmus earned $318,000 because the sixth-place finisher. This was already his fifth final-table end of 2025, with one title gained earlier this sequence in a $25,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion that sported a $1.9 million prime prize. Ausmus now has $2.6 million in to-date POY earnings and three,546 factors, sufficient to maintain him atop the POY leaderboard.
Tom Vogelsang obtained the final of his quick stack in preflop with AQQ2 going through the AJJ9 of Jouhkimainen. The Finn made aces and nines to win the pot, sending Vogelsang to the rail with $408,000. The Dutch professional moved inside the highest 30 within the POY race with three remaining tables and one title in 2025.
Regardless of scoring just a few early knockouts on the remaining desk, Xu was the following to be despatched packing. His final ten huge blinds went in with Ok1054 trailing the OkOkQ2 of Gruffudd Pugh Jones, who made queens stuffed with deuces to lock up the pot. Xu was awarded $505,000 because the fourth-place finisher.
Jones slid down the chip counts throughout three-handed play. The UK resident ended up getting the final of his quick stack in with pocket kings, however was crushed by a flush for Jouhkimainen. Jones was awarded a career-best payday of $611,000 for his third-place displaying.
Heads-up play started with Jouhkimainen holding a 3:1 chip lead over Nagy. The 2 have been quickly in a lifeless warmth, although, because of a double up with pocket aces for the Hungarian. After some back-and-forth, Nagy held a slight lead in time for the ultimate hand of the match.
Nagy limped from the button with AAQ9 and Jouhkimainen raised from the massive blind with OkQ106. Nagy limp-raised and Jouhkimainen referred to as to see a flop of Ok103. The chip obtained in proper there with Jouhkimainen’s kings up within the lead in the interim. The 9 on the flip gave each gamers flush attracts, with Nagy’s being greatest. He additionally had outs to journeys, a straight, and better two pair. The final possibility is what would up coming in because of the three, which gave Nagy aces and threes for the win. Jouhkimainen earned $930,000 because the runner-up, a brand new excessive rating for the bracelet winner from Helsinki.
Remaining Desk Resuts
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Gergo Nagy
$1,360,000
1020
2
Joni Jouhkimainen
$930,000
850
3
Gruffudd Pugh Jones
$611,000
680
4
Liang Xu
$505,000
510
5
Tom Vogelsang
$408,000
425
6
Jeremy Ausmus
$318,000
340
Photograph credit: Triton Poker.
