Christopher Frank emerged victorious from a subject of 83 entries within the 2024 Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection Montenegro $100,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha essential occasion. The World Collection of Poker bracelet winner from Germany was awarded a career-best payday of $2,008,910 and his first Triton title because the champion.
The 29-year-old had solely entered 5 earlier Triton occasions, together with his greatest outcome being a Sixteenth-place end in a $30,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion for $71,800. Now he has a trophy and a multi-million-dollar rating earned on the tour.
“I’m feeling excellent, it’s a really good feeling,” Frank advised Triton reporters after popping out on prime. ““I actually like these occasions. I actually need to be again.”
Frank now has greater than $5.5 million in whole lifetime match earnings. His second-highest payday was additionally recorded earlier this 12 months: a $500,000 rating secured for a runner-up end in a $3,500 buy-in occasion on the Wynn Hundreds of thousands sequence.
This newest victory was good for 960 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors. Frank now has 2,652 whole factors earned throughout 4 final-table finishes to date this 12 months. As a outcomes, he now sits simply outdoors the highest 20 within the 2024 POY standings offered by World Poker.
The $8,300,000 prize pool on this occasion was break up up amongst the highest 14 finishers, with huge names like Seth Davies (14th), Chris Brewer (123th), Quan Zhou (twelfth), Michael Duek (tenth), and Sean Winter (eighth) operating deep.
The ultimate desk started with Laszlo Bujtas main and Frank in second chip place among the many remaining seven contenders. Ben Tollerene (seventh – $391,000) was the primary to fall, bounced by five-time Triton champion Danny Tang and his ace-high flush. Regardless of that knockout, Tang was in the end the subsequent to be eradicated. He ran prime two pair into the highest set of Bujtas to complete sixth for $495,000.
Frank knocked out Tomas Ribeiro in fifth place ($635,000), making a straight to crack pocket aces. He then received concerned in an enormous conflict with fellow bracelet winner Eelis Parssinen, who received all-in with center set. Frank held flush and straight attracts. He made the straight to ship Parssinen packing in fourth place $795,000.
Bujtas bowed out in third place ($982,000), operating right into a flopped straight held by bracelet winner Dylan Weisman. Weisman entered heads-up play with 47 huge blinds to Franks 119. The ultimate two hashed out a deal to redistribute the remaining prize cash, setting apart $70,000 and the trophy to play for whereas making certain $1,938,910 for Frank and $1,666,090 for Weisman.
Frank was in a position to draw back after the deal was struck. He then landed the decisive blow with a rivered full home in opposition to the rivered straight of Weisman. Moments later, he was hoisting the trophy.
Weisman now has practically $5.4 million in profession match earnings after locking up $1.6 million on this occasion.
Here’s a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Christopher Frank
$2,008,910
960
2
Dylan Weisman
$1,666,090
800
3
Laszlo Bujtas
$982,000
640
4
Eelis Parssinen
$795,000
480
5
Tomas Ribeiro
$635,000
400
6
Danny Tang
$495,000
320
7
Benjamin Tollerene
$391,000
240
Photograph credit: Triton Poker / Joe Giron.
