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Triton Poker Launch Triton Player of the Year Campaign for 2020 Season

For the first time in Triton’s history, the 2020 season will encompass a Player of the Year (PoY) award.

The Triton Poker Series PoY program is independent of any other related poker rankings, and to compete for the honour of being the PoY, you must compete in Triton Poker Series live tournaments.

The journey to crown the first PoY champion begins on February 10 when the trident comes crashing down into the floor of the salubrious surroundings of the Landing Casino in Jeju, South Korea.

From there, players can accrue PoY points in a total of four stops. Montenegro (May 4-18), and London (Jul 29-Aug 13) are already in the calendar, meaning a Triton surprise is in the offing for autumn/winter.

The Cogs

PoY points are not transferable, meaning players cannot pass them from player to player. Final table deals will not alter the issuance of PoY points. Should a deal happen, including a decision to end the tournament immediately, then the Tournament Director (TD) will insist that the players conclude the competition for PoY points.

Cash games and restricted buy-in live tournament don’t count towards PoY points. A classic example of this would have been the 2019 Triton Million London: A Helping Hand for Charity, which was an ‘invite-only’ event.

One of the things that the players love about Triton is their flexibility, and drive to put on a game if there are enough players interested in participating. With that in mind, the PoY points associated with new, non-scheduled games, and alterations to existing game structures will see Triton’s TD announce the PoY points structure in advance of the game.

The Formula

Triton reserves all rights to the formula created for Triton’s PoY campaign. The method allocates points based on finishing position and then multiplies those points by buy-in amount and the total number of entrants and re-entrants.

There are benefits for punctual players and those who fire multiple bullets. All players who register before the tournament starts, and join the game within the first level, receive an additional 2 points based on the multiplier shown in the below table.

Every entry and re-entry is worth 3 additional points and multiplied as per the below table. Every player who finishes in the money (ITM) will receive an additional 10-points. Finally, Each stop will reward a ‘Player of the Festival,’ and along with the bragging rights, Triton will issue them with 100 additional points.

The winner of the Triton PoY is declared at the end of the 2020 season, with the new PoY campaign beginning immediately after the end of the final 2020 event.

The Prize

Along with the claim that you outperformed the very best in the business throughout four challenging series, the winner will also pick up HKD 2,000,000 in prize money.

View Player of the Year Points System Here

Triton Fully Release €500k Montenegro 2019 NLH Cash Game

We have fully released all 6 episodes of the long awaited €500k Buy-In No Limit Hold’em Cash Game from Triton Montenegro 2019 on our official YouTube channel, featuring the likes of Antanas Guoga (Tony G), Daniel (Jungleman) Cates, Paul Phua, Isaac Haxton, Mikita Badziakouski, Tan Xuan, Timofey (Trueteller) Kuznetsov and Linus (LLinusLLove) Loeliger.

The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series has recently been on a break following the Triton London event back in August, but this cash game will definitely fill in the content gap until the next event is officially announced.

The set of episodes sees the first time poker legend Tony G has joined a Triton TV cash game table, with online pro LLinusLlove also making his first appearance.

The first episode can be watched via this link: https://youtu.be/FrUdWj8B-nk

Stay tuned for further news on our plans for 2020, as well as new content set to be released in the very near future.

Triton Million London to Broadcast in English, Chinese, Norwegian, Danish and Russian

Some are relishing the competition; others have an ironclad resolve to win, and there are a few who don’t know what they’ve let themselves in for.

The beauty of Triton Million is the eclectic mix of cultures, backgrounds, and personalities.

Hedge fund managers.

Investment bankers.

Poker players.

It’s a tournament that has united a community, broken records, and challenged the ceiling of our capabilities. You may not be here to witness it, but we’ll make sure you don’t miss a single hand.

Triton Million exists because you know about it. We’ve put together a seriously strong team to make sure you continue to know about it – event by event, level by level, hand by hand.

English Broadcast Options

Lex’ RaSZi’ Veldhuis returns to accompany Randy’ nanonoko’ Lew with Nick Schulman, Ali Nejad and Jeff Gross adding even more quality.

Here are your viewing options:

PokerGO – £1m buy-in Triton Million only, and free to stream.
Twitch – TritonPoker
Facebook – Triton Poker
Youtube – Triton Poker

Norwegian Broadcast Options

Kjetil Flåten and Erik Bjørdal will take command of the mic.

Sumo / TV2 – https://www.tv2.no/sport/

Danish Broadcast Options

Rasmus Nielsen will be narrating the tales.

Youtube – DanskeSpilPoker
Facebook – DanskeSpilPoker
Twitch – DanskeSpil Poker

Russian Broadcast Options

The Russian audience will spend their time with Mikhail Semin.

Twitch – TritonPoker_ru

Chinese Broadcast Options

Commentating for the Chinese stream are Chen An Lin, Allen Wang Haoxiang, and MuMu

Zhibo TV

Sina

The action begins at 1 pm on Wednesday, July 31, with the £25,000 No-Limit Hold ’em 6-Handed Turbo. The three-day £1,050,000 buy-in Triton Million starts at 1 pm on Thursday, August 1.

Here is the full schedule of events.

https://triton-series.com///triton-super-high-roller-series-london-2019/

Triton Million: A Helping Hand For Charity Adds The One Drop Foundation to The List of Beneficiaries

Jul 2019 – In 2012, poker enthusiast and Cirque du Soleil founder, Guy Laliberté envisioned the biggest buy-in poker tournament in the world, with a charitable focus. In partnership with Caesars Entertainment and the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the $1m buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Big One for One Drop was born. During the 2012 WSOP, 48-people raised $5.3m for the One Drop Foundation, and Antonio Esfandiari won the world record $18.3m first prize.

$1m buy-in One Drop events have run biennially ever since. In 2016, the buy-in record broke when Elton Tsang won the $12.4m first prize in the €1m buy-in Monte Carlo One Drop Extravaganza.

In August, that buy-in record will once again be broken when the £1,050,000 buy-in Triton Millions: a Helping Hand for Charity takes place in London’s Park Lane Hilton. And, once again, the One Drop Foundation will play a pivotal role.

Triton Poker has added The One Drop Foundation to the list of Triton Million beneficiaries, with 15% of the total amount raised for charity going towards Laliberté’s foundation. One Drop joins Raising for Effective Giving (REG), Caring for Children Foundation, Healthy Hong Kong and Credit One World Charity Foundation as the non-profits benefiting from this landmark tournament.

The £1,050,000 buy-in Triton Million: A Helping Hand or Charity takes place August 1 – 3, with the £50,000 registration fee split between the five charities. The event has already raised £1.5m for charity with the headcount expected to rise further before the tournament begins.

About Triton Poker

The Triton Poker Series inspires lovers of poker in the pursuit of preeminence. We provide innovative games, peerless poker rooms, and tables full of world-class poker players, entrepreneurs and titans of business.

Poker is the perfect vehicle to reduce pain and suffering in the world. As we stand at the summit of the game, our ability to serve others through charitable donations, tournaments and other enterprises is unparalleled.

We are the purveyors of poker excellence.

Previous winners of Triton Poker events include Fedor Holz, Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates, Justin Bonomo, Timothy Adams, John Juanda, Dan Colman, Jason Koon, Phil Ivey, and Mikita Badziakouski.

For further information on the Triton Poker head to www.triton-series.com or contact info@triton-series.com. If you need any info on tournament info or buy-in details, email vip@triton-series.com.

About Triton Million

Triton Million is a charitable No-Limit Hold’em event with a buy-in of £1,050,000, with the registration fee donated to Triton’s philanthropic partners. The first-ever Triton Million event takes place in London’s Hilton in Park Lane August 1-3, breaking the record for the richest buy-in event in the history of poker.

For further information on Triton Million, or if you wish to register your intention to play, then email vip@triton-series.com.

About One Drop

One Drop™ is an international foundation created in 2007 by Cirque du Soleil and Lune Rouge founder Guy Laliberté with the vision of a better world, where all have access to living conditions that allow empowerment and development, today and forever. Our mission is to ensure sustainable access to safe water and sanitation to the most vulnerable communities through innovative partnerships, creativity and the power of art. Together with its partners, One Drop brings its unique Social Art for Behaviour Change™ approach to promote the adoption of healthy practices around water, sanitation and hygiene through locally inspired social art programs, empowering the communities to take ownership of the projects over time. One Drop counts over 10 years of turning water into action with projects that will transform the lives of over 1.4 million people around the world. Since 2012, One Drop’s support from the poker community has generously grown and, together with the World Series of Poker, poker players from around the world and other important collaborators in the industry, has raised over $23 million from poker initiatives only.

To learn more about One Drop, visit www.onedrop.org.

Interact with One Drop on Facebook and Twitter at @onedrop @onedrop_all_in, or on Instagram @1dropwater

Steve O’Dwyer Wins Event #1: HK$250,000 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo 8-Handed at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro 2019

The first of ten winners at The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro 2019 has signed the camera lens, and it’s the familiar squiggle of a man who has won more than $27m playing the toughest live multi-table tournaments (MTTs) in the world.

Steve O’Dwyer collected HK$3,708,784 after a heads-up deal that saw his good friend and mentor, Isaac Haxton, pick up HK$2,901,216 for his runner-up finish. O’Dwyer typically keeps his emotions in check but allowed a little love to flow, holding a birthday placard for his mother as the camera lens’ cracked into life at the end.

Day 2 of Event #1: HK$250,000 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo 8-Handed began with seven players prepared for an eyebrow-raising four buy-in bubble that would greet the final six players.

Here is the state of play at the beginning of the day.

Final Table Chip Counts

1. Sam Greenwood – 2,100,000
2. Linus Loeliger – 1,755,000
3. Beh Kok Weng – 1,475,000
4. Dietrich Fast – 1,160,000
5. Isaac Haxton – 890,000
6. Steve O’Dwyer – 820,000
7. Wei Lim Chin – 805,000

And the treasure.

Payouts

1 – HK$ 4,020,000
2 – HK$ 2,590,000
3 – HK$ 1,720,000
4 – HK$ 1,240,000
5 – HK$ 1,005,000

O’Dwyer came into the event as the second lowest stack after what he described as a nightmare ending to Day 1. The only player with fewer chips than O’Dwyer was Wei Lim Chin, and as so happens in these situations, he was the first to hit the rail.

With blinds at 25k/50k/50k, Beh Kok Weng min-raised to 100,000 holding pocket eights, and called after Lim moved all-in holding pocket sevens. The flop handed Weng a set, and the turn improved his hand to quads. Lim was out in seventh place.

O’Dwyer and Haxton Rise During Crazy Bubble Period

The elimination of Lim led to the official money bubble, and as previously stated, it was a monster. The stakes were HK$1,020,000 (USD 130,000) or nothing, and it turned out to be the most exciting period of action over the past two days.

With blinds at 25k/50k/50k, the action folded to Dietrich Fast in the small blind, and he looked down to see . Haxton sat in the big blind. Fast, who had him covered, moved all-in, and Haxton woke up with pocket kings. The board held no salvation for Fast, and just like that, the German had less than a single big blind; Haxton became one of the chip leaders.

With everyone expecting Fast to wither away at the speed his name implies, O’Dwyer woke up with pocket jacks, under the gun, and opened to 700,000. The action folded to Weng, seated in the cutoff, and the Malaysian star made the call holding . Fast, folded the button and crossed his fingers.

The flop fell , O’Dwyer checked, Weng moved all-in, and O’Dwyer, who was at risk of elimination, made the call, much to the delight of Fast. The board ran out , and suddenly O’Dwyer was a significant threat.

As the camera panned to Fast, you could tell by the demoralised look on his face that his chance had gone.

And then he got another one.

Steve O’Dwyer looked down to see pocket queens, in late position and opened with a raise. Sam Greenwood, who had the chip lead, looked down to see and moved all-in. O’Dwyer, with Fast still on less than a big blind, made the call and vaulted into the chip lead after flopping a set.

There wouldn’t be a third opportunity for Fast.

With blinds at 30k/60k/60k, and Fast forced to play his big blind, Haxton created a family pot that involved O’Dwyer and Weng, and Haxton took the eventual hand holding on , and Fast, and his slippers, exited in the worst position possible after his low hanging trash hand connected with nothing.

“Some people just want to lose their money,” Fast told the Triton Series Reporter after his loss, referring to the moves that saw O’Dwyer take the chip lead at such a crucial time.

With Fast gone, everyone was guaranteed HK$1,020,000, and that’s the exact amount that Greenwood banked after leaving the contest in the fifth position. With blinds at 30k/60k/60k, Haxton opened the betting from the cutoff holding , O’Dwyer called in the small blind with two scarlet sixes, Greenwood moved all-in for 870,000 in the big blind holding , and only O’Dwyer called. The sixes held, and Greenwood was out.

Four quickly became three when we lost Beh Kok Weng.

With blinds at 30k/60k/60k, O’Dwyer opened to 120,000 from under the gun holding , Weng moved all-in for 865,000 on the button with , and Linus Loeliger also moved all-in for 1,390,000 holding pocket queens to shift O’Dwyer out of the equation. The flop of handed Loeliger a set, and Weng was drawing dead after the smacked the river.

The two old friends would tussle in heads-up action after Loeliger departed in the third spot. O’Dwyer opened to 160,000 on the button holding , and Loeliger defended his big blind with . The flop of gave each of them a pair and a gutshot, and Loeliger called a 125,000 O’Dwyer bet. The turn was the , handing Loeliger two-pairs, but giving O’Dwyer the straight. Loeliger checked, O’Dwyer moved all-in for 1,700,000, and Loeliger made the call. The was a brick for young ‘LLinusLlove’, and he hopped straight into the Six-Max.

O’Dwyer Beats Haxton Heads-Up For the Title

O’Dwyer began heads-up with more than a 2:1 chip lead, and the pair agreed to a chop that looked like this:

O’Dwyer – HK$ 3,458,784

Haxton – HK$ 2,901,216

It left HK$250,000 to play for, and all the early action went the way of Haxton including a nifty river raise that moved a confused O’Dwyer off the best hand. Then as the gap began to close, there was no gap. With blinds at 50k/100k/100k, Haxton limped-shoved with , and O’Dwyer called holding the dominating .

O’Dwyer flopped a second queen, and Haxton’s hand never found the assistance it needed to keep up the partypoker Ambassador’s momentum. Haxton was out, leaving O’Dwyer to take all the plaudits.

“It worked out exactly how I hoped it would,” O’Dwyer told the Triton Poker Reporter after his win, before waltzing over to the cash desk to compete in the Event #2: HK$500,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Max.

And the Triton wheels keep on turning.

ITM Results

1 – Steve O’Dwyer HK$3,708,784*
2 – Isaac Haxton – HK$2,901,216*
3 – Linus Loeliger – HK$ 1,720,000
4 – Beh Kok Weng – HK$ 1,240,000
5 – Sam Greenwood – HK$ 1,005,000
* Indicates a heads-up deal

Photography by Joe Giron/Poker Photo Archive.

Triton Poker Series Returns to Montenegro With Event #1: HKD 250,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed Turbo.

The poker journey is different for everyone, but there is a Joseph Campbellesque archetype that all poker heroes must transcend if they want a shot at the treasure.

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” Joseph Campbell.

From the moment you arrive at the Maestral Resort & Casino, in Budva, Montenegro, there are only open doors. From the doorman paving the way to luxury, the veranda leading to the Adriatic coastline, and the red carpet that leads to the poker room where high stakes dreams are dealt, and heroes are born.

The Triton Poker Series is back.

After jubilant Jeju, we’re in magnificent Montenegro at the beginning of what will be the most ambitious Triton series to date with ten high stakes tournaments, the grandest cash games in the world, and millions in euros to be handed out to those that reach the end of their respective yellow brick roads.

We start with something new – Event #1: HKD 250,000 (€28,000) No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed Turbo. It’s the first time Triton has asked their Titans to pick up the pace, and you can bet it’s going to lead to a magnificent spectacle on the best live stream in the business.

It’s a two-day event, with cards expected in the air at 3 pm, Sunday 5 May. Flexibility is key as players stream in from all over the globe. When we do begin, each player will start with 200,000 chips, and the blinds will increase every 30-minutes. Players can expect a 15-minute breather every two hours, and there is unlimited re-entry until the start of Level 9.

Day 2 is scheduled to start at noon, Monday 5 May, when the door remains open for one man, or woman, to walk through to collect the top prize and all the trappings that come with being a Triton Poker Champion.

Players expected to be competing over the next ten days include the Triton Poker Series Jeju Main Event winner, Timothy Adams, the reigning Montenegrin champion, Mikita Badziakouski and the all-time Triton Poker Series money leader and ambassador, Jason Koon.

A structure sheet for Event #1: HKD 250,000 (€28,000) No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed Turbo can be found here. (https://triton-series.com///triton-super-high-roller-series-montenegro-2019/#triton-player)

Here is the plan in full:

#1: Sun 5 May – HK$250k – No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed Turbo (Two-Day Event)*

#2 Mon 6 May – HK$500k – No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed (Two-Day Event)**

#3 Tue 7 May – HK$100k – Short-Deck Ante-Only (Two-Day Event)*

#4 Wed 8 May – HK$1m Triton Montenegro No-Limit Hold’em Main Event (Three-Day Event)**

#5 Fri 10 May – HK$250k Short-Deck Ante-Only (Two-Day Event)*

#6 Sat 11 May – HK$200k Short-Deck Ante-Only Turbo (Two-Day Event)*

#7 Sun 12 May – HK$250k Pot-Limit Omaha (Two-Day Event )*

#8 Mon 13 May – HK$500k Short-Deck Ante-Only (Two-Day Event)*

#9 Tue 14 May – HK$750k Short-Deck Ante-Only (Two-Day Event)*

#10 Wed 15 May – HK$1m Triton Montenegro Short-Deck Ante-Only Main Event (Three-Day Event)*

* Indicates a 3:00 pm start

** Indicates a noon start

Day 2/3 Resumptions begin at noon.

Photography by JoeGiron/Poker Photo Archive.

Tips From High Stakes Poker Players: Tom Dwan And The Importance of Asking ‘Why?’

Not everyone reaches the apex of high stakes poker. Why do some become such stars that people want busts of them in their garden, while others ping pong between the stakes never settling on the side where millions of dollars are won and lost, daily? In ‘Tips From High Stakes Poker Players’ Lee Davy brings you the common principles and practices he has found in the stars of this ever-evolving hierarchy, beginning with the importance of asking ‘Why?’

Tom Dwan is an intensely private person. Interviewing him is challenging. Interviews are a dish better served hot. If you don’t include the right blend of ingredients, then it quickly goes cold. One of the most crucial elements of a memorable interview comes in the form of questions, and it’s ‘the question’ that sets this private man apart from the many who have tried and failed before him.

Amongst the high stakes tribe, you find some incredibly creative people, and creativity is a primal aspect of humanness. It doesn’t matter if you are Walt Disney, Steve Jobs or Tom Dwan – humans are at their creative best as children.

As children we are aware of the noise of passing insects, find incredible beauty in the form of pinecones and seashells, and make the most fabulous art with our food (very often on the floor).

It’s at this early age that we are still unaware that we are adhering to a blueprint of life. The ‘zombification model’ handed to us by our parents, the educational system and early employers.

With children, pregnant with fire, we encourage the behaviour of asking questions, but as we enter the educational system things change. The operatic way in which we get curious about the world is knocked out of us by the need to ‘fit-in’, and the constraints of the classroom clock and cockeyed curriculum.

Dwan shifts uncomfortably in his chair, looks down, prepares to answer my first question, looks directly at me, and a lopsided smile breaks out on the right-hand side of his face, one end almost touching his earlobe. Then his mouth opens for the first time.

“I always had this thing about me,” says Dwan with a pause. “I would ask, “Why?” If I had to do some work at school, or whatever it may be, I could do it, but I need to ask why? It needs to make sense to me.”

Paradoxically, as children there is a biological drive to become part of a tribe; not just any tribe, but THE tribe. We feel it in every organ, breath and cell. At the same time, this tractor like drive to be in someone else’s gang can also lead to a lack of character.

It’s as we approach our teenage years that creativity, and being different begins to feel weird. We start to feel ashamed of who we are. We don’t want to ask ‘why?’ because we feel judged by our classmates. We fear to ask questions because we don’t want people to see who we are. If the mask slips slightly, we are out on our arse. Anyone who has pressed the intercom only to be greeted by silence understands the crushing insanity of loneliness.

Even those brave enough to ask ‘why?’ – People like Tom Dwan – are oppressed because the teachers don’t have time to deal with all the raised hands. There is a schedule to follow, and answering questions isn’t in the curriculum.

And it’s for these reasons that we slip into the zombification of life, taking orders from the thumb and forefinger of unimaginative people; quickly forgetting about the internal war that raged throughout our teenage years as a defensive mechanism for keeping the cognitive dissonance at bay.

High stakes poker players don’t fit into that blueprint.

People like Tom Dwan found a way to escape.

They realised there was a price to standing out, and they were happy to pay for it.

As the author of Feck Perfuction James Victore puts it:

“Knowing that you don’t fit in is your first glimpse of greatness.”

Having an Opinion

Victore believes the point of life is to have an opinion, and the artist extraordinaire once said that ‘normalcy’ is barbed wire to the soul, and that questions are the wire cutters’.

There is nothing ‘normal’ about Tom Dwan.

“I think there is a reason that I gravitated towards poker,” Dwan told me. “It’s because I got to pick my version of what made sense to me. I would choose the games that were more fun, or seemed like I could make money; picked the hours that I wanted. I didn’t realise any of that when I got into poker, but I think that’s part of the reason I stuck with it and was able to be pretty good at it.”

I have a two-year-old, and an eighteen-year-old, and I have realised that as a parent, I encourage the nipper to ask questions about life, and yet with the boy becoming a man, I slip into a modus operandi of forcing my opinion on him.

There are times when my son has voiced controversial opinions, and rather than explore the reason why I have taken out my Nunchuks and smashed every word to bits the moment it leaves his lips. I see him in me, and why not – he trusts me and wants to emulate me in many ways.

Speaking to Tom Dwan and many other high stakes poker players I see the value of raising children to trust their opinion so that they can share it with the world either verbally or through a form of artistic impression or creative endeavour.

We have to feel the fear that other people will not like what we have to say and to say it all the same, and we do this by training our voice and allowing it to evolve, and most specifically, to sing, because if it doesn’t create a crescendo then how will anyone ever hear it? We need to replace the dulcet tones of zombification with a chorus of hues that illuminates the chandeliers of life.

Why We Care.

Bernadette Jiwa is a marketing genius, author of a myriad of top-notch books, and the creator of The Right Company. Jiwa believes the ability to ask the right questions is the key to a successful company, and I will further that by replacing ‘company’ with ‘person’.

Jiwa wants marketers to ask: “Why will people care about this?”

I believe Dwan and many of his peers, have become accustomed to asking the question, “Why should I care about this?” It’s a question that created a cumulonimbus of speech bubbles that led to the world of high stakes poker.

Why does this idea matter to me?

Why should I give this my priority?

Dwan learned from a young age the compelling need to ask the right questions at the right time and to discern and prioritise essential tasks that emerged from these questions.

In becoming a ‘question-asking machine’ Dwan also dug deeper than most, mining the gold that appeared on the face of the root cause rather than dilly-dallying with the symptoms like so many of us do.

The secret to creativity is curiosity.

The secret to curiosity lies in the questions.

And it couldn’t have been easy for Dwan and his peers. Nobody likes a rock, and some teachers are no different. The kid with no curiosity, the one who never raises his hand, is no problem at all. The Rocks are easily managed when compared to the kid who can’t keep still, and won’t stop asking, ‘why?’

It’s the same in the workplace.

Managers want you to follow orders, not ask questions.

Without the ‘why?’ there is no thought of ‘how can we improve this?’

We think that asking a stupid question is risky, but it’s dangerous not to ask the stupid question.

“The worse thing you can do is deny who you are, try to be someone or something you’re not, and live a life bent and molded by others.” James Victore.

What I have taken away from my conversation with Dwan and some of his peers is that resurrecting our ability to ask great questions is a crucial skill in life. But Dwan’s success comes down to the way he acts once he receives an answer. There has to be a genuine interest in the response you receive. Let’s not question things for the sake of it. That will win us no favours. Be honest with ourselves about the ‘why?’ Poker is a game where you need to be several steps ahead of your opponent, and this is no different – be prepared with how you are going to respond to the answer to your why?

I suggest to Dwan that he must have been a royal pain in the arse in school, because of his refusal to fit into their box. He thinks about my statement for a second and then shakes his head.

“Not really,” says Dwan. “It was more about WHY do I need to be in this box? If this box says, ‘You can’t quit because the fish wants to keep playing,’ I will play for 50-hours. But I need the reason to make sense to me. That’s the thing I like about poker. There is a lot of freedom in certain respects.”

There isn’t a player competing in the highest stakes of the game, professional or businessperson, who contorted to fit into a box, square or office cubicle. The world has enough boring, bland, bullshit. Tom Dwan and the men and women of poker who followed the same path are artists; geniuses, people who don’t fit in, and from the very outset, didn’t even try.

Pot-Limit Omaha – A Beginners Guide

Written by Lee Davy

Introduction

Pot-Limit Omaha, or PLO for short, is the second most common form of poker behind No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE). The game has existed in brick and mortar cardrooms and casinos for decades but rose in popularity through the increase and exposure of high stakes cash game battles across Full Tilt Poker in the mid-2000s featuring the likes of Tom Dwan, Viktor Blom, Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Phil Galfond.

Variants

In it’s rawest form, Omaha is a game played with four hole cards, although versions with five and six cards have also caught on. In this guide, we will focus on the four-hole card version.

There are also different forms of Omaha.

Variants include No-Limit Omaha, and also Hi/Lo versions. Omaha is also a mainstay in any Mixed Game, and mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Omaha games have become increasingly popular over the years. For this guide, we will focus on Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO).

Finally, Omaha is a game that transfers well to both cash games and tournaments. While it’s more prevalent in cash games, all of the major live and online operators have Omaha games in their schedules, including The Triton Poker Series.

Define ‘Pot-Limit’?

The term “Pot-Limit” restricts betting to the size of the pot, so you can’t overbet the pot, or move ‘All-In’ as you can in No-Limit games. The “Pot-Limit’ restriction is typically added to games to lower the variance of bankroll swings where you are more likely to flop strong made hands or draws, such as Omaha.

Calculating Pot Size

The game is $1/$2 PLO, meaning the Small Blind (SB) has placed $1 into the pot, and $2 for the Big Blind (BB). The next player to act calls for $2, and you want to raise the maximum.

What would be the size of your raise?

We calculate the size of the pot as thus: $1 from the SB, $2 for the BB, and $2 for the caller = $5. You can also call, for $2, making the pot $7, so theoretically you can raise an additional $7 – so your maximum bet in this spot is $9 ($2 for the call, and $7 for the raise).

The Rules

The DNA of the game plays similar to No-Limit Hold’em, with some notable exceptions.

The dealer hands each player four hole cards, and you can use any two to make the best five card hand using three community cards. The community cards arrive in the same was as NLHE with a pre-betting round, a flop, a turn, and a river with more betting rounds available after dealing each street.

An Example Hand:

The Board: AdQdTh5c3d

Hero: 7s6c4d2d

Villain: AhAcKdKh

In this hand, the Hero wins with an ace high flush, using the {4d} and {2d} in their hand, and the {Ad} {Qd] [3d] from the board. The Villain’s best hand is Trip Aces using {Ah} {Ac} in their hand, and {Ad} {Qd} {Th} from the board.

Now let’s look at a common mistake:

The Board: AdQdTd5c3d

Hero: 7s6c4d2d

Villain: AhAcKdKh

In this hand, the Hero wins with the ace high flush, using the {4d} and {2d} in their hand, and the {Ad} {Qd] [Td] from the board. The Villain’s best hand is still Trip Aces using {Ah} {Ac} in their hand, and {Ad} {Qd} {Td} from the board, but you may erroneously think the Villain also has a flush, as there are four diamonds on the board, and one in the Villains hand, but remember, you have to use two of your hole cards to make a five-card hand.

NLHE to PLO: The Transition

PLO is popular because it provides the player with more opportunity to play given you have more hole-cards leading to more starting hand computations – and this leads to the most common mistake shifting from NLHE to PLO – playing too many hands.

Developing a strong starting hand strategy is crucial when starting in the PLO games because you are going to be up against the nuts or hands that draw to the nuts more commonly than in NHLE. With this in mind, a key focus for you when learning PLO is to start with hands that can flop the nuts or draws to the nuts.

Starting Hands

When choosing starting hands in PLO, one factor you should look out for is to have double-suited hands whenever possible as this increases the variety of ways you can win the hand.

Here are the Top 30 starting hands in PLO (double-suited).

1. A-A-K-K	11. K-Q-J-T	21. Q-Q-A-K
2. A-A-J-T	12. K-K-T-T	22. Q-Q-A-J
3. A-A-Q-Q	13. K-K-A-Q	23. Q-Q-A-T
4. A-A-J-J	14. K-K-A-J	24. Q-Q-K-J
5. A-A-T-T	15. K-K-A-T	25. Q-Q-K-T
6. A-A-9-9	16. K-K-Q-J	26. Q-Q-J-T
7. A-A-x-x	17. K-K-Q-T	27. Q-Q-J-9
8. J-T-9-8	18. K-K-J-T	28. Q-Q-9-9
9. K-K-Q-Q	19. Q-Q-J-J	29. J-J-T-T
10. K-K-J-J	20. Q-Q-T-T	30. J-J-T-9

As you can see, it’s still precious to hold big pairs, as in NLHE, with the exception that as you have four hole-cards, redraw possibilities are also extremely important. It’s for this reason that AAJT (double-suited) ranks as the #2 best starting hand as you have the power of a pair of aces versus Broadway straight and nut flush potential.

12Bet becomes the Official Betting Partner of Triton Poker Montenegro 2019

April 2019 – Triton Poker is pleased to announce 12BET as the Official Betting Partner of the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro 2019.

12BET is an online betting company specialising in sports betting and casino products. 12Bet became operational in 2007, quickly becoming one of the most popular online betting options throughout Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

The deal with the Triton Poker Series is the first time 12BET has partnered with a poker company, but they have a rich history of successful sponsorship deals including a presence in the fields of snooker, badminton, pool, taekwondo and table tennis, although football has always been their primary focus.

12BET entered the sponsorship market in 2009 after becoming the shirt sponsor of La Liga side Sevilla. 12Bet has also been the Official Betting Partner of English Premier League (EPL) sides Swansea and Leicester City, the latter in the wake of their stunning 2015/16 triumph and currently hold official betting partners title for Arsenal F.C.(2016-19) in Asia.

The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro 2019 will be the most ambitious Triton event to date, with ten events spread between May 5 – 17, including the €110,000 buy-in Triton Poker Series No-Limit, Hold’em Main Event, and the €110,000 buy-in Short-Deck Main Event.

Here is a full schedule of events.

About Triton Poker

Triton Poker was founded in 2015 by the Malaysian businessman, philanthropist and poker lover, Richard Yong, who felt there was a gap in the market for an exclusive tournament series for affluent businesspeople and high-end professional poker players set in some of the most luxurious locations in the world all in the name of charity. Funds from Triton Poker events have helped charitable organisations such as Project Pink and the Red Cross.

Previous winners of Triton Poker events include Fedor Holz, Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates, Justin Bonomo, Timothy Adams, John Juanda, Dan Colman, Jason Koon, Phil Ivey, and Mikita Badziakouski. For further information on the Triton Poker head to www.triton-series.com or contact info@triton-series.com. If you need any information on tournament info or buy-in details email vip@triton-series.com.

2019年5月传奇扑克超豪系列赛黑山站精彩再续举办赛事首破十场

2019年5月—全球最热的扑克豪客赛战火重燃，规模更大，体验更佳。5月5日—17日，传奇扑克超
级豪客系列赛重回黑山迈胜度假娱乐城，赛程首次突破十场赛事。

“规模更大”意味着“更多”，而无限德扑赛事、短牌急速赛和底池限注奥马哈赛事首次在豪客赛
中同台竞技。

黑山站是Jason Koon在传奇扑克“发迹”的舞台，这位线下短牌赛事盈利最高的玩家是这个游戏的
绝对拥趸，他已经迫不及待想回到黑山这个一切开始的地方。

“我可能会有些偏爱这个站点，因为我上次在这里打出了很好的成绩，但不管怎么说，相对于全球
其他举办地，黑山其实算是我最中意的一个比赛地点，”传奇扑克代言人Jason Koon如是说：“大海
离我的房间只有15英尺，我每天会起早一些，比赛前会走到海边游一圈再去参赛。”

“房间和扑克室距离很近是真的很方便，这里什么都很便利，最重要的是它拥有其他地方所没有的
原始美丽，我很期待再回到黑山参赛。”

这次比赛的买入介于11,000欧元—110,000欧元不等，短牌和无限德扑皆会举办一场主赛。

传奇扑克黑山站无限德扑主赛于5月8日星期三开赛，5月10日星期五结束，买入110,000欧元。传奇
扑克黑山站短牌主赛买入110,000欧元，始于5月15日周三，止于5月17日周五。

2017年，传奇扑克超豪系列赛黑山站的比赛成了德国玩家的秀场，买入25万港币的6人桌无限德扑
赛事累计41份报名，444,893美元的头奖被Fedor Holz收入囊中；而52份报名的100万港币买入黑山站主
赛冠军则被Manig Loeser斩获，奖金2,162,644美元。

去年系列赛的规模较之以往大了一倍，并举办了首场线下短牌赛事。

在买入25万港币的前注短牌赛中，报名数累计61人，604,992美元的头奖被Phil Ivey拿下。随后在25
万港币买入的35人报名的6人桌无限德扑赛事中，传奇扑克创始人Richard Yong夺冠并拿下388,024美
元奖金。Jason Koon是报名数103人买入100万港币的前注短牌赛冠军，奖金3,579,836美元。在买入
100万港币报名数63人的短牌主赛中，Mikita Badziakouski登顶冠军并斩获2,499,184美元奖金。

传奇扑克简介

2015年，马来西亚商人/慈善家/扑克发烧友Richard Yong创办了传奇扑克这个品牌，在这个品牌创
立之前，这个市场缺乏一个可让商人玩家和顶级牌手在高雅环境中以慈善之名切磋牌艺的舞台，于是
Richard创建了传奇扑克来填补这片空白。传奇扑克通过旗下赛事所筹集的善款曾帮助过包括粉红项目
及红十字会在内的各慈善组织。

曾在传奇扑克系列赛中夺冠的玩家包括： Fedor Holz、Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates、 Justin
Bonomo、Timothy Adams、 John Juanda、 Dan Colman、Jason Koon、 Phil Ivey和 Mikita Badziakouski。

如需了解更多关于传奇扑克的信息，可登录 www.triton-series.com或发邮件至info@triton-series.com。
如果想要知道关于比赛和买入的信息，可发邮件至 vip@triton-series.com详询。