Andy Ni has solely entered 5 Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection tournaments to date, and has managed to money in three of 5 with one outright victory. His win got here within the $25,000 eight-max no-limit maintain’em occasion on the 2024 Triton Montenegro competition. Ni, a 41-year-old Chinese language participant now based mostly out of Spain, earned $785,000 because the champion.
This title run additionally netted Ni 924 Card Participant Participant of the Yr factors. This was his first-ever POY-qualified rating.
A complete of 135 entries have been made on this occasion by the point registration closed, constructing a prize pool of $3,375,000 that was paid out among the many prime 23 finishers. Amongst those who ran deep the place five-time Triton champion Mikita Badziakouski (twenty third), Seth Davies (twenty second), Steve O’Dwyer (seventeenth), Quan Zhou (fifteenth), Nick Petrangelo (14th), Henrick Hecklen (thirteenth), Patrik Antonius (twelfth), and Ben Heath (ninth).
Ni held the chip lead when the official ultimate desk of eight gamers was set. He added to that lead when his pocket aces held towards the A-Q suited of Alex Kulev (eighth – $98,500) to slender the sector to seven. Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero was the subsequent to fall, together with his A-Ok working into pocket aces for Chris Brewer. barbero was awarded $133,600 because the seventh-place finisher. Kulev and Barbero at the moment are each sitting inside the highest 25 within the 2024 POY standings introduced by International Poker after recording their eighth and fifth final-table finishes of the 12 months, respectively.
5-time Triton champion Danny Tang misplaced a basic preflop race with pocket queens towards A-Ok suited to Nicolas Chouity. Tang earned $180,500 for his sixth-place exhibiting.
Brewer scored one other knockout with A-3 holding towards the Ok-8 of Viacheslav Buldygin (fifth – $233,000). Buldygin was quickly joined by Aram Sargsyan, whose pocket tens failed to carry towards the Q-7 suited of Chouity. Sargsyan earned $290,000 for his fourth-place end in simply his second Triton occasion.
Ni overtook the lead when his Ok-10 got here from behind towards the Ok-J suited of Brewer. He then closed out the win by way of a three-way all-in, together with his A
J
holding up towards the A
10
of Chouity and the A8 of Brewer. The board got here down QQ764 to provide Ni the title.
Brewer earned $354,000 because the third-place finisher. The 2-time World Collection of Poker bracelet winner has now made six ultimate tables this 12 months, placing him in thirty fourth place within the present POY rankings. Chouity, a bracelet winner and the champion of the 2010 European Poker Tour Grand Ultimate, walked away with $531,000 because the runner-up.
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Andy Ni
$785,000
924
2
Nicolas Chouity
$531,000
770
3
Chris Brewer
$354,000
616
4
Aram Sargsyan
$290,000
462
5
Viacheslav Buldygin
$233,000
385
6
Danny Tang
$180,500
308
7
Jose Barbero
$133,600
231
8
Alex Kulev
$98,500
154
Photograph credit: Triton Poker / Joe Giron.
