Greater than $148.7 million in prize cash was paid out throughout the 18 occasions that made up the 2025 Triton Poker Jeju high-stakes event pageant. The ultimate occasion wrapped up throughout the wee hours of Sunday, Mar. 16, with Kiat Lee defeating a subject of 31 entries within the $25,000 brief deck turbo occasion.
The Malaysian participant earned $264,000 within the last-chance affair, alongside along with his first trident trophy. Lee now has greater than $13.8 million in profession cashes, with greater than $11.5 million of that coming from his 33 cashes in Triton occasions.
“It means lots to me,” Lee informed Triton reporters after popping out on high. “I all the time needed to win a title.”
This one-day affair had $775,000 in complete prize cash to award, with the highest six finishers all incomes a slice. Ten-time Triton champion Jason Koon was knocked out on the bubble with pocket tens in opposition to the A-Okay of Lee, who flopped an ace and held from there.
5-time Triton champion and 11-time World Sequence of Poker bracelet winner Phil Ivey was the primary to hit the rail inside the cash, along with his Okay-J dropping to A-Okay fitted to two-time Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl champion Isaac Haxton. Ivey earned $54,000 because the sixth-place finisher, surpassing $48.4 million in profession earnings within the course of.
Lun Loon quickly adopted (fifth – $70,000) when his A-Okay bumped into the pocket kings of Lee. 4-handed motion then continued for some time earlier than Rene Van Krevelen’s pocket eights misplaced a preflop showdown in opposition to the Okay
Q of Michael Zhang, who made kings full by the river to safe the knockout. Van Krevelen earned $89,000 because the fourth-place finisher.
Haxton’s run got here to an finish in third place when his Okay
Q was run down by the Q10 of Lee. The chips went in preflop and the 87
6AOkay
runout gave Lee a profitable flush. Haxton was awarded $116,000 for his podium exhibiting. He now has almost $53.9 million in profession cashes.
Heads-up play started with Zhang holding 5,500,000 to Lee’s 3,800,000. Lee surged into the lead because of a giant win with quads in opposition to the sevens stuffed with tens of Zhang. Not lengthy after that, Zhang bought the final of his chips in with QJ going through A8 for Lee. The board got here down Okay96A6 and Lee’s aces and sixes secured him the title.
Zhang earned $182,000 because the runner-up. Earlier in the identical day he had completed third within the $50,000 brief deck occasion for $326,000, which meant that he earned a complete of $508,000 throughout the pair of podium showings.
Last Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Kiat Lee
$264,000
336
2
Michael Zhang
$182,000
280
3
Isaac Haxton
$116,000
224
4
Rene Van Krevelen
$89,000
168
5
Lun Loon
$70,000
140
6
Phil Ivey
$54,000
112
Picture credit score: Triton Poker.
