Registration closed at 2.20pm today on the Triton Montenegro Full Deck Main Event, with a last-minute flurry of entries and re-entries building the total prize pool to HKD 70.5 million ($8.98 million).
In all, there were 75 entries, including 31 re-entries, each of HKD 1 million ($127,000 approx). The tournament outstripped the same event here at the Maestral Resort, Budva, last year, where Mikita Badziakouski won $2.5 million from a field of 63 entries.
This time the champion, whose identity will be decided at the close of Friday’s play, will take HKD 21.3 million ($2.71 million). Triton this year introduced a slightly flatter payout structure, to avoid huge final-table pay-jumps. Nine players will be paid according to the following payout schedule.
Triton Montenegro Main Event
Dates: May 7-9, 2019
Buy-in: HKD 1 million ($127,000 approx)
Entries: 75 (inc. 31 re-entries)
Prize pool: HKD 70.5 million ($8.98 million)
1 – HKD 21,300,000 ($2,713,876)
2 – HKD 14,100,000 ($1,796,509)
3 – HKD 9,600,000 ($1,223,155)
4 – HKD 7,260,000 ($925,011)
5 – HKD 5,650,000 ($719,878)
6 – HKD 4,400,000 ($560,613)
7 – HKD 3,460,000 ($440,846)
8 – HKD 2,680,000 ($341,464)
9 – HKD 2,050,000 ($261,195)
This is only the first of two Main Events being played here in Montenegro, with a short-deck version starting on Wednesday May 15. This time last year, the short-deck tournament proved even more popular than the full deck, with a 103-entry field topped by Triton Ambassador Jason Koon for $3.6 million. Short deck continues its rise in popularity across the globe and there is every reason to expect the same pattern may play out for this year’s renewal.
Short deck dominates the next couple of days of the schedule, with a HKD 250,000 two-day event starting tomorrow, followed by a 200 HKD Turbo on Saturday.
Pot Limit Omaha then makes its debut on the Triton series with a two-day PLO event with a HKD 200,000 buy-in. Next week, the schedule returns to short-deck and the run-up to the Main Event. Tournaments with HKD 500K and HKD 750K buy-ins take place in the lead up to the HKD 1 million centrepiece.
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