The primary occasion of the Triton Poker Jeju competition, a $15,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match, set a tour report with 379 entrants (266 distinctive gamers). By way of three occasions, it isn’t even the most important match of the collection.
Information are being damaged in South Korea this week as the brand new excessive curler collection is underway. Zhao Hongjun gained the primary occasion of the collection for $818,000, the most important chunk of the $5,685,000 prize pool. Yuzhu Wang took second place for $975,000.
Jason Koon (tenth for $86,000), Adrian Mateos (twelfth for $74,000), and Espen Jorstad (twenty seventh for $41,000) have been among the many 63 gamers who cashed. The second occasion of the collection, $20,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em 8-Handed, had a good bigger prize pool of $6,960,000 from 348 gamers. Tuck Wai Foo took it down for $1,350,000, beating Mario Mosbock ($856,000) heads-up for the title.
Ethan “Rampage” Yau (14th for $90,000), Alexander “Wolfgang” Seibt (twenty second for $62,000), and Chris Brewer (thirty third for $41,000) all left the match with cash of their pockets.
Triton Poker Document is Set
The Triton Poker attendance report was set in Occasion #1, however it was surpassed in Occasion #3 with 392 entrants registered for the $25,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em 8-Handed match. There have been nonetheless 73 gamers remaining, on the time of publishing.
Two gamers on this occasion will stroll away with a seven-figure payday, with first place set to pay $1,892,000, and the runner-up will obtain $1,193,000. The cash bubble was quick approaching once we ran this story as the highest 63 might be paid. A min-cash is price $41,500.
A number of the gamers nonetheless standing because the bubble looms embrace chip chief Stephen Tune, Jeremy Ausmus, Phil Ivey, Kristen Foxen, and Fedor Holz. The checklist of notables who’ve already busted embrace Joey Weissman, Ren Lin, Rainer Kempe, and Santhosh Suvarna.
The earlier largest Triton Poker subject had 305 entrants in a March 2024 $25,000 buy-in occasion. The Jeju collection runs till March 15 and options 20 excessive curler occasions, two of which value $100,000 or extra to enter.
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