The seat draw took place this afternoon for the Triton Million for Charity event, to run August 1-3 at the Park Lane Hilton, London. The buy-in is £1.05 million, with the £50,000 entry fee donated to charitable causes.
Designated recreational players will play only against other recreational players for the first six one-hour levels, while the professional players will play other professionals. The fields merge after six hours.
Rob Yong, left, and Sam Trickett select their seats
Triton Tournament Director Luca Vivaldi invited the 54 players to draw their seating assignment, with the result as follows:
TABLE 1 Seat 1 Hing Yang Chow Seat 3 Richard Yong Seat 6 Alfred DeCarolis Seat 7 Rick Salomon Seat 8 Sosia Jiang Seat 9 Qiang Wang Seat 10 Andrew Pantling
TABLE 2 Seat 1 Stephen Chidwick Seat 2 Michael Soyza Seat 3 Jason Koon Seat 6 David Peters Seat 7 Sam Trickett Seat 8 Bryn Kenney Seat 9 Matthias Eibinger
TABLE 3 Seat 1 Ferdinand Putra Seat 2 Tony G Seat 3 Stanley Choi Seat 7 Pat Madden Seat 8 Bobby Baldwin Seat 9 Bill Perkins Seat 10 Talal Shakerchi
TABLE 5 Seat 1 Paul Phua Seat 2 Rob Yong Seat 3 Leon Tsoukernik Seat 6 Orpen Kisacikoglu Seat 8 Winfred Yu Seat 9 Zang Shu Nu
TABLE 6 Seat 2 Justin Bonomo Seat 3 Dan Smith Seat 7 Martin Kabrhel Seat 8 Andrew Robl Seat 9 Fedor Holz Seat 10 Tan Xuan
TABLE 8 Seat 1 Christoph Vogelsang Seat 2 Danny Tang Seat 3 Rui Cao Seat 7 Nick Petrangelo Seat 8 Mikita Badziakouski Seat 9 Daniel Cates Seat 10 Sam Greenwood
ABOUT OUR PARTNERS Les Ambassadeurs is one of the most prestigious private clubs and casinos in London, with a history dating from the early 19th century. Situated in the heart of London’s exclusive Mayfair district, it is formerly the favoured gambling destination of Victorian aristocracy and diplomats and is still one of the most elegant and stylish casino floors in the world.
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Note: This event is still ongoing. See below for details.
Everything about this Triton Super High Roller festival in London this week was always certain to be enormous. Don’t forget, tomorrow we’re starting officially the biggest buy-in poker tournament in the game’s history, which will pay the biggest ever first prize.
This afternoon, however, we’re just dipping our toes in the deep water with a £25,000 buy-in single-day turbo tournament — a gentle warm-up for the coming nine days of very, very expensive action. But this one too is very well worth winning.
During a re-entry period lasting 12 levels, tournament organisers accepted 117 buy-ins, including 44 re-entries, which built a prize pool of £2.75 million. That means that the winner will get £690,000 (around $840,000) from a single day’s work.
Educated predictions put the finish time at between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning, so stick around (or come back in the morning) to find out how this one played out.
NOTE: This event did not finish inside its allocated single day and seven players will return at 1pm on August 4 to play to a winner.
Current chip counts:
Linus Loeliger, Switzerland – 5,055,000 (51 BBs) Lucas Greenwood, Canada – 4,400,000 (44 BBs) Timothy Adams, Canada – 4,090,000 (41 BBs) Kahle Burns, Australia – 3,755,000 (38 BBs) Cary Katz, USA – 2,540,000 (25 BBs) Michael Soyza, Malaysia – 2,055,000 (21 BBs) Elior Sion, UK – 1,500,000 (15 BBs)
Triton London Million Event #1 — Six-Handed Turbo Date: July 31, 2019 Buy-in: £25,000 Entries: 117 (inc. 44 re-entries) Prize pool: £2,749,500 ($3,359,311 approx)
Name
Country
Prize
USD
1
£690,000
$838,302
2
£466,600
$566,886
3
£307,000
$372,984
4
£251,500
$305,555
5
£202,900
$246,509
6
£160,000
$194,389
7
£122,300
$148,586
8
£92,100
$111,895
9
£68,700
$83,466
10
£56,300
$68,401
11
£56,300
$68,401
12
£49,500
$60,139
13
£49,500
$60,139
14
£45,300
$55,036
15
£45,300
$55,036
16
£43,100
$52,363
17
£43,100
$52,363
Les Ambassadeurs is one of the most prestigious private clubs and casinos in London, with a history dating from the early 19th century. Situated in the heart of London’s exclusive Mayfair district, it is formerly the favoured gambling destination of Victorian aristocracy and diplomats and is still one of the most elegant and stylish casino floors in the world.
Partypoker LIVE was created in January 2017 as a global poker tour, with the aim of bringing large field, high guarantee tournaments to players all over the world. Within just 12 months the partypoker LIVE tour has grown into the world’s largest ever poker tour and is guaranteeing over $70,000,000 in the 2018/2019 season.
It’s Wednesday afternoon in central London and all appears normal on Park Lane. There are buses and taxis and businessmen and tourists. There’s even some rain in the air.
But on the first floor of the Hilton Hotel, something extraordinary is afoot. What is normally a nondescript function suite has been transformed into a poker room par excellence: 12 tables surrounded by soft, luxurious seats, information boards dangling beneath chandeliers, the incessant riffling of thousands of chips. Two of those tables are mounted on a slick, jet-black stage with a phalanx of cameras sliding around them, and two on extendable booms.
The biggest hint as to the reason for all this is to be found in the bronze logo that floats on a video wall, between depictions of the London Eye and Tower Bridge. That three-pronged icon represents Triton Poker and this is the set-up for the latest stop on the Triton Super High Roller Series — by far and away the most prestigious poker tour on the planet.
Stephen Chidwick: Among the early arrivals
Over the coming week and a half, this room will host seven exclusive poker tournaments, with buy-ins starting at £25,000 ($30,400 approx.) The centrepiece is the spectacular Triton Million for Charity, whose £1.05 million ($1.275 million) buy-in is the biggest ever required to play a poker tournament.
The three-day event, from which the $50,000 entry fee will be donated to charitable causes, is certain to produce the biggest first-place prize ever awarded. At present, Antonio Esfandiari’s $18 million win in the inaugural Big One for One Drop holds that accolade, but somebody else will be taking that on Saturday night.
Right now, the festival has got under way with a £25,000 turbo event — a gentle introduction when you’re playing these stakes. It’s certainly proved to be exceptionally popular: more than 50 players entered within the first hour, quickly building a prize pool of more than £1 million.
As ever on the Triton Series, the line-up is a who’s who of the absolute cream of the crop. Stephen Chidwick, David Peters, Isaac Haxton, Patrik Antonius, Sam Greenwood, Christoph Vogelsang, Alex Foxen and Charlie Carrell are just a handful of early registrants from the western game, while Paul Phua, Ivan Leow and Stanley Choi are among the familiar Asian players already seated. We also have former tennis pro Boris Becker in the field.
The idea is to wrap this tournament up tonight ahead of tomorrow’s big one. What time that happens is anyone’s guess, but we’ll have a recap at the end.
ABOUT OUR PARTNERS
Les Ambassadeurs is one of the most prestigious private clubs and casinos in London, with a history dating from the early 19th century. Situated in the heart of London’s exclusive Mayfair district, it is formerly the favoured gambling destination of Victorian aristocracy and diplomats and is still one of the most elegant and stylish casino floors in the world.
partypoker LIVE was created in January 2017 as a global poker tour, with the aim of bringing large field, high guarantee tournaments to players all over the world. Within just 12 months the partypoker LIVE tour has grown into the world’s largest ever poker tour and is guaranteeing over $70,000,000 in the 2018/2019 season.
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.
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Lex’ RaSZi’ Veldhuis returns to accompany Randy’ nanonoko’ Lew with Nick Schulman, Ali Nejad and Jeff Gross adding even more quality.
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.
A young lad spots the ball
before taking three strides back, and two to his left. His arms hang by his
side, pulled to the earth’s core. One breath, two, a shrug of the shoulders,
and then he kicks the ball towards the posts.
It falls short.
An older man, late 50s,
maybe early 60s, offers a thumbs up from behind the posts. The lad turns
around, picks up another ball, and goes through the same routine.
Again.
And.
Again.
And.
Again.
Champions outwork the
competition. Champions love what they do. Champions have heart. Champions have
courage. Champions have unrelenting effort. Champions know pain. Champions know
suffering. Champions know joy. Champions are strong in hard times. Champions
never give up. Champions retain the hunger even when they’re at the top.
Champions never settle. Champions are never satisfied. Champions are
courageous. Champions sacrifice. Champions know no boundaries. Champions have
no limits.
On July 31, champions from
the world of poker will pour into The Hilton in London’s Park Lane like a
searing flame. For nine nights there will be no respite as decades of
preparation hits flop, turns and rivers like battering rams. Chip stacks will
rise, and they will fall. Bodies will crash into the rail. Decks will carve
open souls.
The arena is Triton Million
London, and joining the champions of poker, is a champion of tennis. Boris
Becker was 17-years, and 227 days old, when he became the first unseeded
player, first German, and youngest-ever Grand Slam winner when he won the men’s
Wimbledon singles title. A year later, he proved it was no fluke when he
successfully defended his title.
Throughout his career, the
man whose powerful serve earned him the nickname ‘Boom-Boom,’ made people’s
eyes water with his suffocating style of tennis. Forty-seven more titles
followed, including another Wimbledon title, two Australian Open titles, and a
US Open. His win rate in single’s action was 79%, and even when his time had
come, he turned all of his knowledge, experience and technical ability and
injected it into Novak Djokovic, helping him to pick up six Grand Slam titles.
Boris Becker is coming to
Triton Million London.
The 51-year-old will
compete in the Event #1: £25,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Turbo – an event
that will fly through the halls of the Hilton like a whirlwind, done and dusted
in a single day.
Becker has previously
worked in poker with PokerStars and partypoker. He has $111,416 in live tournament
earnings, including a 40/338 finish in the 2009 $25,500 World Poker Tour (WPT)
Championships. He also had a deep run in the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT)
Main Event in Berlin finishing 49/912.
Triton Million London
consists of seven events with buy-ins of £25,000, £50,000 and £100,000, and the
pièce de résistance, the £1m buy-in Triton Million: A Helping Hand For Charity.
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The secret ingredient – the finger on the trigger of the rifle that when pressed, explodes into a childhood memory – is cinnamon. Prices vary wildly from the cheap rubbish in the local supermarket to the expensive stuff in trendy organic stores.
The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series is that expensive stuff.
First Jeju.
Then, Montenegro.
Now, London.
The apex of high stakes poker returns July 31st from London’s Hilton on Park Lane, the purple part of the Monopoly board that everyone wants to own.
It’s the perfect setting for Triton’s third event of 2019, and to celebrate they have created something unique. Triton Million: a Helping Hand for Charity, is a £1,050,000 buy-in event, the most affluent live poker tournament the world has ever seen – a world-record to be.
Triton Million London Update: Petrangelo, Greenwood and Kurganov Confirmed; RaSZi, nanonoko, Schulman and Gross on the mic; partypoker LIVE sponsor; One Drop added as a beneficiary
The Triton Million event takes place Aug 1-3, and at the time of writing, 33 players are ‘confirmed’. The game is by invite with invites open to business people and recreational players only. Once invited, each person can choose one professional to compete in the event, ensuring parity between pros and non-pros for the first time at these mind-boggling stakes.
Nobody has cashed in more seven-figure buy-in events than Rick Salomon, and so far, he’s the only invitee not to name a pro. The word on the grapevine is it’s likely to be a top-notch American high roller.
Four non-pros who have publicly invited top pros are Dusk till Dawn (DTD) owner, Rob Yong, Poker Central Founder, Cary Katz, Hedge Fund Manager, Talal Shakerchi, and Triton co-founder, Paul Phua. Yong invited Sam Trickett because he’s a good friend, and began playing $1/$2 cash games at his club in Nottingham. Katz chose Bryn Kenney because he wants to compete with the best in the world, and believes Kenney is THE best. And Shakerchi wanted the player who would donate the most of his winnings to charity, and Igor Kurganov ticked that box.
Speaking on the choice of Tom Dwan as his partner, Phua said: “Tom {Dwan} is the first pro that I ever befriended who had some success in our private games in Asia. I think highly of Tom as a person, and while he may not be a high roller tournament specialist, the decision wasn’t even close. Not only is he a brilliant poker player, but every fan of No-Limit Hold’em loves watching Tom Dwan play his incredible brand of poker.”
There is also a player in the field who not only knows what it’s like to compete in a $1m buy-in event, he knows how to win one. In 2016, Elton Tsang conquered the 28-entrant field in the €1m Monte Carlo One Drop Extravaganza for €11,111,111. Tsang enters the fray courtesy of an invite from Wiang Qiang.
And the headcount hasn’t stopped rising with Triton’s co-founder, Richard Yong, confident that ’42-players is a very realistic target’, and that there is a ’10 to 1 chance’ that the event gets 48 players.
If you wish to compete in the event, then send an email to register@triton-series.com. Triton has set up a voting committee who will determine your classification as either a recreational player/business person or a professional. If you are classified as a recreational player/business person and don’t have a nominated pro in mind, we will provide you with a list of interested players.
Lex Veldhuis, Randy Lew, Nick Schulman, Ali Nejad and Jeff Gross Call The Shots
It’s not only on the tables that the world-class feel of Triton’s brand is prominent. It’s also in production. ShareHand will provide world-class live stream content. Lex ‘RaSZi’ Veldhuis returns to his perch alongside Randy “nanonoko” Lew, after missing out in Montenegro. Supporting them for the first time at a Triton event are Nick Schulman, Ali Nejad and Jeff Gross. Schulman is a Triton Champion, winning the HKD 100,000 No-Limit Hold’em Short-Deck event in Jeju (2018). He’s also coming off the back of his third WSOP bracelet in the summer and another exemplary shift in the WSOP commentary booth. The quicksilver quartet will add their unique style of commentary throughout an insane week of high stakes action broadcast across Triton’s website, Twitch, YouTube and Facebook, as well as Chinese TV channels.
partypoker LIVE Continue to Partner With Triton
partypoker LIVE continue their partnership with Triton as sponsors of the event. partypoker and Triton ambassador, Jason Koon, said he “couldn’t be more excited to be invited to play the Triton £1 million tournament – big tournaments have always been my true love when it comes to poker and to get to play the biggest one of all time is a real honour. It’s a surreal moment for me as a poker pro.”
Triton Poker founder Richard Yong said: “We’re very excited about the forthcoming Triton Poker High Roller Series in London and delighted that partypoker LIVE will be joining us for this historic event. The Triton Poker High Roller Series offers the world’s most affluent recreational players and top-level pros the chance to compete for very high stakes against incredibly tough competition. Our tournaments really get players’ adrenaline going and now we are about to host the biggest buy-in poker tournament ever held. All those that take part will become a part of poker history as well as helping to raise millions for worthy causes.”
The One Drop Foundation Joins The List of Beneficiaries
Finally, there is also fantastic news on the beneficiary front with 15% of the charitable haul heading to the One Drop Foundation. It’s a fitting addition, as One Drop’s founder, Guy Laliberté, was the inspiration behind the first-ever $1m buy-in event.
Other charities benefiting from Triton Million are Credit One World Charity Foundation, Caring For Children Foundation, REG, and Healthy Hong Kong.
Should a ‘confirmed’ player renege on their intention to play, then the £50,000 registration fee goes straight into the charity pool. To give you a flavour of the kind of money Triton Million is raising for charity, 33 players equates to £1.65m – and that buys you a lot of cinnamon.
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.
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.
Triton Poker and Poker Central announced a partnership to live stream the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series on PokerGO. To celebrate the collaboration, PokerGO will also be streaming the Triton Million for free along with our channels. In addition to this, longtime PokerGO commentators Nick Schulman and Ali Nejad will each represent the platform as talent included in the broadcast.
From August 1-3, inside the Grand Ballroom of London’s Park Lane Hilton Hotel, the £1,000,000 No Limit Hold’em Triton Million – A Helping Hand for Charity – event will take place. Sponsored by partypoker LIVE, the tournament is structured as an invite-only soiree where businessmen and women are offered the opportunity to invite a guest pro to create a balance of skill. The Triton Million promises to be a unique experience for both players and fans.
“PokerGO is always looking to expand its live stream offering, making the Triton Super High Roller Series a perfect partnership for us,” said Sam Simmons, president of Poker Central. “We are excited to deliver free access to the PokerGO experience while also supporting Triton in maximizing the footprint of this fantastic charitable effort.”
The Triton Million will be a unique event where players are asked to dress in formal attire for the final table of nine. Another twist to the regular tournament format is that the player pools will be separated between the recreational and professional players for the first six hours of play.
Jason Koon
To date, big names such as Paul Phua, Richard Yong, Jason Koon, and Stephen Chidwick are on the list of confirmed players. The full list of registered players to date can be found here.
The entire £50,000 tournament fee is being used for charitable causes such as the Caring For Children Foundation, R.E.G., Healthy Hong Kong, Credit One World Charity, and One Drop. The event is sponsored by partypoker LIVE.
The rumours have been flying around for several months, and today the details can finally be revealed. It’s true. It’s official. The Triton Super High Roller Series is coming to London, and will include the biggest buy-in poker tournament ever held.
From August 1-3, 2019, in the Grand Ballroom of London’s Park Lane Hilton, the highest high rollers in the global game will play a tournament costing £1.05 million to enter.
The £50,000 entry fee will go to charity, promising several million pounds to a variety of worthwhile causes. Meanwhile the £1 million buy-in — more than it has ever cost before to play a poker tournament — will create one of the biggest prize pools of all time. The champion will likely earn more than has ever been won at a poker tournament anywhere in the world.
Uniquely, the field is guaranteed to provide a perfect balance between high-rolling recreational poker enthusiasts and the game’s top professionals. The only way to secure a seat into the event is to either be a recipient of an official invitation from Triton, or to be an invitation holder’s nominated guest.
Invitations have been sent to some of the best-known and successful businessmen and women (or recreational player) around the world, who share only one thing in common: their love for poker. The invitation holders are then permitted to register a guest to play the tournament too, with these official “plus-ones” likely to be poker’s top stars.
Triton Ambassador Tom Dwan and Triton Co-Founder Paul Phua
The field will be split for most of the first of three days, allowing the recreational players to play only against other recreational players, while the pros do battle with the pros. As players are knocked out, the fields will merge for the second and third days.
Further rules, intended to level the playing field between the recreational players and the professionals, include a prohibition on sunglasses, hats and hoodies. Players will not be allowed to cover any part of their body from the neck up. Furthermore, players in the final nine will be required to wear a formal suit for the final day’s play. (Full Triton Million Details Here)
The full Triton Super High Roller Series London festival will last for 10 days and feature at least seven events. Confirmed events and starting days so far are:
Note: Schedule subject to change, and other events may be added.
VENUE London Hilton on Park Lane Grand Ballroom Address: 22 PARK LANE, LONDON, W1K 1BE, UNITED KINGDOM
Partypoker LIVE is the official tour partner of the Triton London 2019 festival. Created in January 2017 as a global poker tour, partypoker LIVE tour has grown into the world’s largest ever poker tour within just 12 months and is guaranteeing over $70,000,000 in the 2018/2019 season.
True to form on the Triton Super High Roller Series, the completion of the pre-scheduled slate of tournaments did not mean the end of this festival in Montenegro. Where there are players, there is a game, and a last-minute turbo was added on the final day giving players one more chance to mix it up at the Maestral Resort, Budva.
This was a HKD 300,000 buy-in event, combining the players’ two greatest loves: short deck and full deck hold’em, alternating every six hands, with 25-minute levels. There were 27 entries including 10 re-entries and that produced a prize pool of HKD 7.86 million — as near as dammit to $1 million. There aren’t many places in the world where a last-minute event can build a seven-figure prize pool, but the Triton Series is one.
There also aren’t that many places in the world — the real world, at least — where you’ll find three titans of poker named Dan Cates, Jason Koon and Rui Cao engaged in a three-way scrap for heaps. Cates is best known as “Jungleman”, the online cash-game sensation (and sometime soft porn actor), while Cao sometimes goes by “PepperoniF” as he clashes with the best for the biggest online pots. Koon is a Triton Ambassador and three-time champion on this series, and the fact that it was those three left at the end gave an indication of how tough and prestigious these events are.
In a matter of about eight hours, it was all done and dusted and Cates posed for the winner’s picture this time. The week began for him writhing on a poker table with a harem of women in various states of undress. It ended with him sitting with in one hand, a trophy in the other, and another title, plus HKD 3.93 million ($501,000) to his name.
Heads Up Dan Cates
“Pretty good,” he said, when asked how it felt to become the latest Triton champion, earning his second title. But he was’t yet sure what the future held for him. “I didn’t think of that,” he said when asked how he was going to celebrate. “There’s a party. I guess I’ll go to that and see what happens next.”
With Jungleman, that could mean absolutely anything.
Cates beat Koon heads-up, although it only lasted one hand. Koon’s was outdrawn, ending this festival in some-way appropriate manner. “What a heads-up battle that was,” Koon chirped after watching his hopes of a fourth title vanish. “Good game, buddy,” he added. Koon took HKD 2.367 million ($302,000) for second.
Triton Ambassador Jason Koon has to settle for second
With only three places to be paid from this small field, the usual pre-bubble tension only really descended after Paul Phua had departed in fifth. Phua should look back on the week in Montenegro with fondness, having cashed a remarkable six times. But it was bittersweet for him as he still doesn’t have a title, and he could’t get one at the last opportunity either. He clung on with a short stack, but eventually he lost it.
Mike Watson, who became the actual bubble boy not long after, probably won’t remember this trip with any real enthusiasm. He’s been on the receiving end of more than his fair share of beats, and today went out on the bubble with to Dan Cates’s . It was a short deck hand and equities were close, but it’s another sickener for Watson. They got it in on the flop of , when Watson had tons of outs. But he shook his head resignedly as he missed, finishing a series in which he cashed only once, for HKD 850,000 ($108,306).
Another sickener for bubble boy Mike Watson
With the last three now assured a minimum of HKD 1.56 million ($199,000), the pressure eased. Cao was the first to bust in the money, losing a massive pot with to Cates’s aces. He couldn’t fully recover and eventually succumbed to Koon in a full-deck hand. We know it was full deck because Cao got his last shrapnel in with and lost to Koon’s .
Rui Cao: Out in third
The blinds were big and the stacks were shallow, so a titanic heads-up duel was always unlikely. But they got it all-in on the first hand, the dealer delivered the outdraw, and that was that for the festival.
We had close to 1,000 entries, a combined prize pool of more than $42 million, and 11 champions from 12 events. Steve O’Dwyer was the first, Cates was the last and Bryn Kenney won two.
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partypoker LIVE was created in January 2017 as a global poker tour, with the aim of bringing large field, high guarantee tournaments to players all over the world. Within just 12 months the partypoker LIVE tour has grown into the world’s largest ever poker tour and is guaranteeing over $70,000,000 in the 2018/2019 season.
in one hand, a trophy in the other, and another title, plus HKD 3.93 million ($501,000) to his name.
was outdrawn, ending this festival in some-way appropriate manner. “What a heads-up battle that was,” Koon chirped after watching his hopes of a fourth title vanish. “Good game, buddy,” he added. Koon took HKD 2.367 million ($302,000) for second.
to Dan Cates’s 
. It was a short deck hand and equities were close, but it’s another sickener for Watson. They got it in on the flop of 
to Cates’s aces. He couldn’t fully recover and eventually succumbed to Koon in a full-deck hand. We know it was full deck because Cao got his last shrapnel in with 
and lost to Koon’s 
.