Estonia’s Vladimir Korzinin, a white-bearded high-stakes newcomer, continued his domination on the Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence Monte Carlo with a victory that earned him $4,350,000 and his second seven-figure rating up to now week.
Korzinin topped a subject of 122 runners within the $150,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em 8-Handed occasion and defeated a remaining desk that included Stephen Chidwick, Fedor Holz and Bryn Kenney, who earlier within the sequence turned the primary participant to cross $70 million in reside earnings by successful the $125,000 Foremost Occasion.
Simply days earlier Korzinin completed runner-up to current Poker Corridor of Fame inductee Patrik Antonius within the $200,000 Triton Invitational for $3.4 million, a short-lived career-best. His first-ever Hendon Mob money got here from a third-place end in final month’s European Poker Tour (EPT) Cyprus.
Triton Monte Carlo $150,000 NLH 8-Handed Closing Desk Outcomes
Newcomers Prevail in Monte Carlo
Regardless of the heavy hitters within the subject, the rookies got here out on prime as Korzinin ended up heads-up towards Finnish gambler Ossi Ketola, one other newcomer to poker. Korzinin’s unorthodox fashion and benignly clever aura made him an instantaneous favourite amongst viewers of the Triton stream.
“I haven’t had extra enjoyable watching poker,” Drew ‘BetOnDrew’ Gonzalez wrote on X.
References to the 69-year-old’s wizard-like look have been fast to flow into on social media after throughout his Triton run, with “Gambledore” and “The Wizard” being among the many extra memorable examples.
Korzinin has remained elusive and rejected interview requests from Triton all through the week, based on updates of the sequence. He merely mentioned he “had no phrases” after the victory.
The Triton sequence in Monte Carlo runs Nov. 1-14 and can wrap up with a $25,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha (PLO) Bounty occasion and the presently underway $100,000 PLO Occasion.
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