The 2025 Triton high roller series in Jeju, South Korea continued. Some winners over the last week included Bryn Kenny, Sean Winter, Joao Vieira, Punnat Punsri, Gergo Nagy, Tom-Aksel Bedell, Wenjie Huang, Mario Mosbock, and Anatoly Filatov. Joao Vieira shipped Event #9 $150,000 NLH Eight Max for a hefty $4.6 million score when he faded 128 runners. Wenjie Huang banked $5.55 million when he took down Event #11 $100,000 NLH Main Event, which attracted 285 entrants. Thai pro Punsri snagged nearly $2.6 million for winning Event #12 $125,000 No-Limit Hold'em Seven Max.
Some of the biggest high-stakes tournament action is going down in Jeju, Korea as we speak. The Triton High Roller Series has established itself as the pinnacle of nosebleed tournament action that attracts players and pros from all over the world. Nine more events were completed since our initial update last week. You'll notice some familiar names on the winner's list. Although Phil Ivey did not win an event, he went deep with a final table appearance.
Event #6 $25,000 WPT Global Slam attracted 389 runners and a prize pool worth $9,725,000. The top 63 places paid out. Among the notables who cashed included Orpen Kisacikoglu, Michael Soyza, Kristen Foxen, Adran Mateos, Lucas Greenwood, Stephen Chidwick, Brock Wilson, Dylan Linde, Joey Weissman, Cal Anderson, Michael Gathy, Ebony Kenney, and Mike Watson. The stacked final seven included Anatoly Filatov, Calvin Lee, Igor Yaroshevskyy, Justin Saliba, Fedor Holz, David Coleman, and Pascal LeFrancois. Anatoly Filatov was the last player standing after he survived a difficult final table and earned a first-place prize worth $1,882,000.
Event #7 $40,000 NLH Mystery Bounty had a field consisting of 223 entrants, who created a prize pool worth $8.9 million. The final table included Sean Winter, Jeremy Ausmus, Bia Ding, Ben Tollerene, Matthias Eibinger, Klemens Roiter, and Mikita Badziakouski. Winter defeated the Badzman heads up for the title and $935,000 in cash. Only the top 34 places paid out and among those lucky few were... Phil Ivey, Kahle Burns, Matas Cimbolas, Tom Vogelsang, Chris Brewer, Winfred Yu, Patrik Antonius, Nacho Barbero, Joey Weissman, Adrian Mateos, Christoph Vogelsang, and Mas Oya.
Event #8 $50,000 NLH attracted 215 runners and a prize pool worth $10.75 million. The top 34 places paid out. Among those who went deep and cashed included... Matas Cimbolas, Artur Martirosian, Thomas Bovin, Kahle Burns, Alex Foxen, Dan Smith, Stephen Chidwick, Teun Mulder, Poseidon Ho, Orpen Kisacikoglu, Anatoly Filatov, Brock Wilson and Paul Phua. The final seven included Bryn Kenney, Juan Pardo, Steve O'Dwyer, Dylan Linde, Brandon Wilson, Mike Watson, and former soccer player Mario Mosbock. With two to go, Mario Mosbock and Bryn Kenney agreed on a chop, but they had to play out for the official title, coveted trident trophy, and $70K in cash. Kenney finished in second place, yet banked a smidge more ($1.89M) compared to Mario's $1.83M due to their heads-up deal.
Event #9 $150,00 NLH attracted 128 entrants. The prize pool was over $19.2 million and only the top 20 lucky souls earned a cut of the cheesecake. Among the notables who cashed in this first $150K event included Fedor Holz, Phil Ivey, Ben Tollerene, Ike Haxton, Daniel Dvoress, Tan Xuan, Lucas Greenwood, Danny Tang, Patrik Antonius, and Orpen Kisacikoglu. The final seven included Wang Ye, Joao Vieira, Dan Smith, Aleksejs Ponakovs, Alex Foxen, Kiat Lee, and Biao Ding. Ponakovs and Vieira were the last two standing, but the pro from Portugal picked off the Latvian pro. Vieira, a three-time WSOP bracelet winner, banked his largest score to date with a first-place prize worth $4.61 million. For a runner-up finish, Ponakovs won $3.14 million. Not too shabby, eh?
Event #10 $50,00 NLH Turbo Bounty Quatro had a field of 95 entrants and a total prize pool worth $4.7 million. Only the top 15 places paid out. Among those who went deep and cashed included Stepen Chidwick, Chance Kornuth, Seth Davies, Chris Brewer, and Punnat Punsri. The final seven included Bryn Kenney, Jon Vallinas, Cho Yang, Michael Soyza, Brandon Wilson, Leon Sturm, and Erik Seidel. The turbo title came down to a heads-up battle between Vallinas and Kenney. Kenney, who took second in an earlier event, did not squander this chance to step into the winner's circle. Vallinas busted in second place, and Kenney ranked $839K for the victory. Kenney won his fifth Triton title and he's tied for second overall.
More records were broken in Event #11 $100,000 Main Event. It attracted a record 285 entries for a $100k buy-in affair, and first place would win a record-smashing $5.555 million. Huang Wenjie from China would be the last player standing after he navigated a difficult final table to secure his first trident trophy. The final seven also included Jungleman Cates, Artur Martirosian, Sam Greenwood, Santhosh Suvarna, Aliaksei Boika, and Nacho Barbero. Jungleman banked $3.5M for a runner-up finish. A total of 47 players cashed in the Main Event including... Clemen Deng, James Hopkins, Anatoly Filatov, Alex Foxen, Michael Soyza, Ben Heath, Poseidon Ho, Ike Haxton, Biao Ding, Kristen Foxen, Mikita Badziakouski, Stephen Chidwick, Steve O'Dwyer, Paul Phua, Seth Davies, and Teun Mulder.
Event #12 $125,000 NLH attracted 93 entrants and a prize pool worth $11.6 million. Only the top 15 places paid out including Dan Smith, Phil Ivey, Daniel Dvoress, Brian Kim, Danny Tang, Fedor Holz, and Mas Oya. The final seven included Punnat Punsri, Christoph Vogelsang, Mikita Badziakouski, Chris Brewr, Joao Vieira, Ben Tollerene, and Kiat Lee. Thai pro Punsri edged out Vogelsang for the title and nearly $2.6 million.
Event #13 $25,000 PLO 6-Max attracted 117 runners. Only 19 players got a cut of the prize pool worth $2.925 million. Among those who went deep but missed the final table were Erik Seidel, Nacho Barbero, Seth Davies, Jeremy Ausmus, Kahle Burns, Sam Greenwood, and Martin Zamani. The final six included Phil Ivey, Lin Wei, Tom-Aksel Bedell, Rich Gryko, Shi Ning Dan, and Eelis Parssinen. Norway's Tom-Aksel Bedell was the last one standing in this PLO affair and he banked $709K.
Event #15 $50,000 PLO drew a field of 112 runners and a prize pool worth $5.6 million. The top 19 places earned a cut, and among them were Patrik Antonius, Lucas Greenwood, Ben Tollerene, Pascal LeFrancois, Ike Haxton, Chance Kornuth, Chris Brewer, and Adam Hendrix. Gergo Nagy from Hungary survived a stacked field to win $1.4 million. He picked off Joni Jouhkimainen heads-up for the trident trophy. Also at the final table were Jeremy Ausmus, Tom Vogelsang, Gruffudd Pugh Jones, and Liang Xu.
Only five more events are on the docket in Jeju with a pair of PLO tournaments and three highly popular Short Deck events to end the series.
