Triton Poker Player Pulls Over $1 Million in Mystery Bounties

Think about ending twelfth in a high-stakes poker match but being that occasion’s greatest winner. That’s exactly what occurred to Lithuanian celebrity Matas Cimbolas within the $40,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Thriller Bounty occasion, a part of the Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence Jeju pageant.

Cimbolas crashed out of the match in twelfth place. He received the final of his chips in with pocket kings, which had been forward of Rokas Asipauskas‘ queen-jack and the ace-queen of Mikita Badziakouski. Nonetheless, an ace on the flop finally resulted in Asipausskas and Cimbolas busting in a double elimination.

Woman Luck wasn’t on Cimbolas’ aspect in the course of the latter levels of the match, however she greater than made up for it when it was time to disclose the thriller bounty funds. Having watched Matthias Eibinger pull 10.5 bounties value a mixed $750,000 and several other different bounty hunters obtain ample sums, Cimbolas requested his spouse, Greta, to open the six thriller bounty envelopes he’d collected.

The primary envelope contained $40,000 as did the second of the six bounties pulled. That is the place issues received fascinating. Cimbolas’ spouse stated she was going to dig deeper into the pile of envelopes, which she did. After some rummaging round, she opened the third bounty. The sum was printed on gold card, that means it was value a minimum of $100,000. Because it occurs, this payout was one weighing in at $200,000, taking Cimbolas’ haul to $280,000.

Hitting the Jackpot With a One-in-Seven Shot

Bounty 4 was additionally gold. Host Ali Nejad knowledgeable the stream’s viewers that there was a one-in-seven likelihood that this bounty may very well be the jackpot bounty of half one million {dollars}. Just a few moments later, Cimbolas hit his 14.28% likelihood, lower than kings beating aces, and banked a cool $500,000!

“We’ll buy groceries,” joked Cimbolas when Nejad stated his spouse had executed nice.

“I do not know if Lamborghini does a stroller, however my guess is so as to add to cart,” quipped Nejad, referencing the couple’s changing into mother and father 14 months in the past.

Greta delved into the thriller bounty envelope field once more and retrieved one other gold payout: $200,000. The ultimate envelope the Cimbolas pulled was value $100,000, taking the full bounty haul to an unimaginable $1.08 million! Added to his match money, Cimbolas took dwelling $1,151,000, greater than the $1,075,000 Sean Winter collected, which included $140,000 in bounties, for changing into the match’s champion.

Cimbolas and the opposite Triton Poker gamers subsequent have an opportunity to win some bounty prizes on March 6 when the $50,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Bounty Quattro shuffles up and offers at 4:00 p.m. native time.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker business since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he grew to become the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from stay reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his position of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.