Adrian Mateos was unable to seize his second Triton Poker Montenegro title of the sequence after shedding heads-up to on-line poker crusher Wiktor “limitless” Malinowski within the $200,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em 8-handed occasion.
The excessive stakes affair, which concluded on Friday, attracted 93 entrants and paid the winner $4,789,000. Second place took house $3,292,000, whereas everybody on the ultimate desk acquired at the very least $661,000. And it was a stacked ultimate desk — not solely the highest two finishers — with poker legends equivalent to Jason Koon, Steve O’Dwyer, and Nick Petrangelo all chasing a serious event win. None of whom, nevertheless, may compete with the Polish poker celebrity.
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Malinowski got here into the ultimate desk of Triton Montenegro’s eleventh occasion with the chip lead and nearly double his nearest competitor’s chip stack. He padded that chip lead with the elimination of Petrangelo in eighth, cracking the American’s ace-ten with ace-seven.
Nonetheless, a well-timed river increase from Mike Watson on a Q♣10♣2♥3♣J♣ noticed the Canadian overtake Malinowski with seven left, just for Mateos’ king-queen to crack the ace-queen of Jonathan Jaffe to deliver it down to 6 and with it take over as chip chief.
The trio — Malinowski, Mateos, and Watson had been evenly matched and would share the chip lead round, earlier than Malinowski discovered clear water and surged forward, eliminating Koon to maneuver over 10 million chips.
It will take some effort to reel in Malinowski, and even after Mateos despatched each Mikita Badziakouski and Watson to the rail, he nonetheless held lower than half Malinowski’s chips. Malinowski then eradicated O’Dwyer in third, which paid $2.1 million — the most important money of his profession — bringing the event to heads-up.
Mateos was then assured the most important money of his distinguished profession, no matter whether or not he may overcome a extreme heads-up chip deficit. He sat with 4.5 million to Malinowski’s 14 million however nonetheless held 30 huge blinds with which to mount a comeback, a comeback that will by no means transpire.
Closing it Out
On the ultimate hand, on a flop of 8♦4♣3♣, Mateos checked high pair with 8♥6♦, trying to set a lure. However what he did not know was his opponent had 8♠3♥ and had him in a world of bother. Malinowski then guess 300,000 with two pair earlier than the massive blind referred to as. The 7♥ on the flip made issues fascinating, however Mateos checked once more after selecting up a gut-shot straight draw.
Searching for worth, Malinowski guess 1 million chips, after which snapped off a check-raise to three.5 million. The tenâ™ on the river was of no assist to Mateos, who now has over $47 million in reside event cashes, in response to The Hendon Mob. He received Occasion #7: $50,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em 8-Handed for $1,761,000 earlier within the sequence.
As for the champion, the Polish poker legend is turning into as a lot a reside event crusher as he is lengthy been an internet poker star. Malinowski is now only a shade underneath $12 million in reside event earnings, and he is solely 29 years outdated. The win was his first Triton Poker title and third reside event win ever.
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Primarily based in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract reside reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time employees in 2019.
He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.
