Polish high-stakes professional Wiktor Malinowski scored a whopping $4.8 million for being the ultimate participant standing who put $212,000 — or extra — into the Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence occasion in Montenegro. He was a part of a discipline of 61 who constructed a $18.6 million prize pool with 93 entries.
“It’s the perfect feeling. There are such a lot of moments in poker when it’s not so good, so once you win it feels very particular.”
The 29-year-old, who performs on worldwide on-line poker websites as “limitless,” started his poker journey as a teen within the lowest of stakes. He’s now a nosebleed money and occasional event participant closing in on $12 million in lifetime event cashes.
That is Malinowski’s second win in an excellent high-stake poker event — He received the $250,000 buy-in Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl Europe in Kyrenia in August of 2021 for $3,690,000.
One powerful (and really wealthy) closing desk
The highest 15 gamers of this banger received a minimum of $317,000. They included names that Triton followers are used to seeing within the money column. Paul Phua and Patrick Antonius received the minimal, whereas Bryn Kenney and Bao Ding leveled-up in thirteenth and twelfth for $344,000, Christoph Vogelsang and Stephen Chidwick missed the ultimate desk ending eleventh and tenth for $390,000.
The following three gamers would miss out on a $1 million payday.
First to go was Matas Cimbolas, who pushed his lifetime event poker winnings up over the $6.5 million mark with a $483,000 money in Montenegro.
Nick Petrangelo pushed his life tourney booty into the $35 million neighborhood with a $661,000 money for eighth.
Jonathan Jaffe was one spot away from his second seven-figure money, however stalled in seventh for his second-best lifetime money of $865,000. He’s approaching $13 million in lifetime event cashes. His greatest got here within the 2023 $111,111 World Poker Tour Alpha8 for $1,537,600.
Jason Koon, the person with essentially the most Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler titles, isn’t any stranger to the seven-figure money. Together with the $1,098,000 he took for ending sixth right here, he has 14 of them. He was going for his eleventh Triton title. The person raised in West Virginia will almost certainly break the $60 million lifetime tourney mark someday this 12 months.
Mikita Badziakousk of Belarus is one other participant with loads of seven-figure tourney cashes. His 16 places his lifetime tourney complete at $54.5 million, together with $1,405,000 he received for a fifth-place end right here. He’s coming off a $7.1 million bink for profitable the $100,000 WPT Large One for One Drop in December.
Canada’s Mike Watson scored his second $1 million win for ending fourth, and that’s simply in Might. His $1,748,000 received in Montenegro goes properly with the $1,895,000 he took by profitable n the $159,000 buy-in Triton occasion in South Korea. He’s fairly near breaking the $30 million mark.
Eire’s Steve O’Dwyer scored a lifetime greatest for third. The $2,157,000 that got here along with his end pushed his lifetime complete over $43 million.
Runner-up Adrian Mateos was additionally going for his second Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler title of the month. He simply received the sequence’ $50,000 providing for $1,761,000 simply six days earlier than bowing out in second-place for $3,292,000. He’ll almost certainly change into a $50 million man someday this 12 months.
That left “limitless” with the trophy and an enormous pile of money. Kudos to him.
