Mar 2020 – It’s time for the game tattooed on our hearts to take
a backseat. The world is under siege from the fastest spreading pandemic of our
time. COVID-19 has infiltrated more than 197 countries and territories, and in
a bid to stop it, many world leaders have imposed severe restrictions on
movement.
With this in mind, and to give you as much advanced warning as possible, we will cancel the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series planned to take place in the Maestral Resort and Casino, Montenegro May 8 -22.
In many ways, Montenegro’s leg has become the heart of the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series. Still, we must do what is right and prioritize the safety of everyone involved in the production of our events.
March 2020 – It’s with great sadness that Triton Poker announces the cancellation of the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series, Jeju. Originally, planned for February, Triton Poker took the unprecedented step of postponing the series after the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) began in China’s Wuhan Province.
Since the decision to postpone the event, the virus has spread globally. As accurate as of March 2, Korea’s confirmed COVID-19 cases had reached 5,328 with 33 deaths – the second highest case rate, and fourth-highest death rate, hence the cancellation. As of March 4, there have been 93,191 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 3,203 deaths.
The next event on the Triton Poker High Roller Series schedule is in Montenegro, where the Maestral Hotel & Casino will play host May 8 – 22.
Feb 2020 – No dates have been confirmed for the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in the South Korean province of Jeju as the Triton Poker team monitor the situation.
Initially, planned to occupy most of February, the outbreak of the Coronavirus in China forced Triton officials to make the unfortunate step of postponing the event.
The Coronavirus has currently taken the lives of 600 people, with all but two of them occurring in China, with the city of Wuhan in the Hubei province taking the brunt of the deaths. There has been a death in Singapore, and one in Hong Kong. There have been more than 28,000 confirmed cases worldwide, with China suffering most of the devastation.
It has also been revealed that if the Coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen over the next several weeks, a decision to cancel Triton Jeju 2020 is a possibility.
Since the Coronoavirus first leapt from animals to humans in
China a few weeks ago, close to 10,000 people have been infected, and it’s
killed more than 200. All of the deaths have been inside China, but the virus
has spread to more than a dozen countries.
The safety of our players and support staff remains our utmost priority. Coupled with our duty to do everything we can in our power to prevent the virus from spreading, we’ve taken the difficult but correct stop of postponing the event with immediate effect.
The thoughts and prayers of the Triton Poker Team are with the families of those that have lost their lives and for the ones fighting the virus all over the world.
Another official announcement in regards to the potential resurrection of the event will be made on February 10th, 2020.
Poker King have announced a partnership with Triton Poker, which will see the company as the Presenting Sponsor on all Triton Super High Roller Series festivals in 2020.
The first stop of the year will be in Jeju South Korea from February 10-22, with Budva, Montenegro and London, England next on the Triton SHR roadmap. Other locations are also being planned, but have yet to be confirmed.
Poker King was founded by the world’s leading
gaming group: Sun City Group and AG Group, which is headquartered in the
Central Business District of Manila in the Philippines.
Poker King is currently the largest and most popular online poker site in Asia with more than 1.2 million registered members.
Poker King’s platform supports all Texas
Hold’em formats, such as full deck, short deck, Pot Limit Omaha, SNG and more.
There are between 50,000 to 80,000 daily
online games, and the number of players exceeds 100,000.
Poker King have previously partnered with some
of the world’s most prestigious tournament brands, including the Asian Poker
Tour (APT), the World Poker Tour (WPT) and recently the Boyaa Poker Tour (BPT).
As of 2017, 40 Poker King competitions have
been held in different locations across Asia.
Tom Dwan, who is the Ambassador of both Triton
Poker and Poker King, stated: “I
will carry out my understanding of poker games onto the Poker King platform and
support them to promote a credible and fair gaming environment for all of poker
players.”
For more information on Triton Jeju 2020,
please visit this link.
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.
Tournament Area
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.
If 2019 was the year of anything, it was the year of the protester. A million people took to the streets of Hong Kong to protest the proposed Fugitive Offenders amendment bill. Algeria’s ‘Revolution of Smiles’ protests continued until President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, resigned from office on April 2, and the poker community threatened to take up chess if the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series didn’t put on more dazzling events.
Three Triton events captivated the poker community throughout 2019.
2-9 March – Jeju, South Korea.
5-17 May – Budva, Montenegro.
31 Jul – 8 Aug – London, England.
The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in Jeju had 8-events. The Montenegrin series extended that to 13, before the inaugural visit to London capped things off with an 8-event series, including the record-busting £1m buy-in, Triton Million: A Helping Hand for Charity, and it’s at that event that we begin our round-up of Top 5 Best Triton Moments of 2019.
After countless nights of grinding teeth, yanking hair, and itching armpits, Triton managed to do something unique in the poker world – host, a £1m buy-in No-Limit, Hold’em (NLHE) event with 54-entrants.
The event, held in the Hilton on Park Lane in London, broke several records, notably: largest prize pool outside of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event (£54m), the most significant buy-in (£1m), and the biggest single payout (Bryn Kenney, £16.9m).
The uniqueness of the event saw the pros and non-pros separated for the first six-levels. A non-pro had never won a 7-figure buy-in event that included pros, and that’s one of the things that makes Aaron Zang’s win standout.
Zang began life as a Magic The Gathering champion, and he defeated another former Magic champion, Bryn Kenney, heads-up, to win the title after the pair agreed upon a deal that saw Zang pocket £13,779,491, and Kenney £16,890,509.
When the field was down to five players, Zang, a cash game player, faced the combined might of three of the best NLHE tournament players in the world (Stephen Chidwick, Dan Smith, and Bryn Kenney).
“I don’t know what I am doing!” Said Zang during a break in play. “I just hope for a miracle.”
He’s too kind.
Zang overturned a 3:1 chip deficit, and a vast gap in tournament experience to become the first winner of the Triton Million.
The Triton Million: A Helping Hand for Charity was such a huge event; seven players could have replaced Justin Bonomo at the top of The Hendon Mob (THM) All-Time Money List if results went their way. It was a fact not lost on Bryn Kenney, who began the series in fourth place, needing an $11m score to hit the top spot.
Kenney was the only person singing from the swanky London rooftops that he would win the tournament, and take his rightful place at the top of the All-Time Money List. As the Triton Million: A Helping Hand for Charity tournament progressed, this race became a story within a story.
With four players left, three of them would still hit the top with a win, until Kenney eliminated two of them (Stephen Chidwick and Dan Smith), before eventually falling to Aaron Zang, heads-up.
The reason you see Kenney smiling so much after the event is he and Zang cut a deal that saw Kenney bank £16,890,509, the largest single prize dished out, ever, and a win that saw him reach $55,505,630 – good for the top spot.
Coming into 2019, Paul Phua sat second in the Malaysian All-Time Money List on THB with $5,116,041 in live tournament earnings, trailing his Triton partner, Richard Yong, by $6,232,651.
How long would it take Phua to overtake Yong?
Less than a year.
Despite starting to play poker in his mid-40s, Phua put in a tremendous run of consistency to feature in the money (ITM) 11 times, 16 lifetime, two more than his nearest rival, Jason Koon.
A typically humble Phua said his success boils down to his desire to compete in every single event. When you’re competing against the best in the world, you need more in your arsenal than merely showing up.
Ten of those 11 ITM finishes were final table appearances, finishing in the Top 3 spots on five occasions, with the only blot on his copybook a big fat zero in the registered wins column – a stat that won’t last long.
The most celebrated sportsmen in the world need a platform to anchor them so the whole world can see how great they truly are. For Jason Koon, that platform has been the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series.
Koon burst on the Triton scene when he conquered all in the 2018 event in Montenegro, winning the HKD 1m Short-Deck Main Event for $3.5m, as well as appearing in two of the largest-ever televised cash game pots in history.
Koon would later join Triton as their first brand ambassador, and in 2019, in Jeju, he blew everyone away like dandelion seeds on the end of the big bad wolf’s huff and puff, making four final tables, and winning two while gathering $4.6m in the process.
To date, Koon has won three titles (an honour he shares with Mikita Badziakouski and Wai Kin Yong), has finished ITM 14 times (only Paul Phua beats him with 16), and earned $12,334,232 in prize money.
Bryn Kenney appears for the second time thanks to his outstanding display in Triton’s event in Montenegro. It was a smash and grab performance by Kenney, who flew in to compete in a few games, before moving on to pastures new.
Kenney, who had complained that the buy-ins weren’t high enough for him, won the HKD 500,000 NLHE 6-Handed event, beating 79-entrants to capture the $1,431,376 first prize, before going on to outlast 75-entrants in the HKD 1m NLHE Main Event for $2,713,859.
The two wins came two months after the heartbreak of losing to Timothy Adams in the heads-up stage of the HKD 2m NLHE Main Event in Jeju, where he picked up another $3m. Kenney also finished 4/81 in the HKD 500,000 NLHE 6-Handed event for $500,000.
Nobody has earned more money on the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series than Kenney, with $30,373,405 in prize money accrued over 7 ITM finishes.
The best pros in the business understand that the only metric for success is to play each hand optimally. If they can avoid the twisted ankle of tilt dragging them away from this ideal, then they can sleep well at night safe in the knowledge that the Poker Gods will do whatever the Poker Gods will do.
In 2019, the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series scorched across the horizon with a program of high stakes cash games and tournaments the poker world had never seen.
The best pros.
The best non-pros.
The highest stakes.
Intensity.
Pose.
Joy.
It had it all.
Trying to dilute this pack of dogs into five pedigree hands was challenging. In doing so, we wanted to show the intensity, pose and joy that’s present when Triton puts on a show.
We think we did a good job.
Of the chosen hands, three of them involved Mikita Badziakouski. The Belarusian is one of only three players to have won three Triton titles (joining Jason Koon and Wai Kin Yong). He is also the only player to win back-to-back No Limit-Hold’em (NLHE) Main Events (Jeju and Montenegro) and has amassed $11.8m playing on the Triton Series. Two of the hands involved Stephen Chidwick, one of the best proponents of NLHE tournaments in the world, and you see why.
The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series hosts the biggest cash games in the world, and two of these hands came from those sessions: one NLHE, and the other Short-Deck, with Montenegro and Jeju the settings.
The most compelling hands come from the Triton Million London: A Helping Hand for Charity. When you pay £1m to play in a tournament, it stretches you both mentally and technically. The confrontations between Stephen Chidwick and Sam Trickett, and Stephen Chidwick and Vivek Rajkumar bust lungs considering the consequences of making the wrong decision.
Here are our five favourite hands of the 2019 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series – big bad bluffs, hero calls, and even a classic Royal.
There
was once a time when even the most experienced poker trackers would find it
challenging to sniff out a high stakes tournament that sent shivers down your
spine. Today, trackers don’t need to look out for broken twigs and the soles of
expensive Dolce Gabbana slippers. High stakes poker is like sand on a beach;
yet only one tournament series builds castles upon castles.
In
2019, the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series hit unprecedented heights. The
greatest players in the world, joined by the most ambitious non-pros in the
world, skipped along the yellow brick road from Jeju to London via Montenegro,
winning and losing millions in the process.
Triton’s
ambassador, Jason Koon, dominated Jeju, March 2019, winning the HKD 1m
Short-Deck and HKD 1m Refresh for a combined haul of $3.8m. There were wins for
Timofey Kuznetsov, Michael Soyza and Devan Tang. Timothy Adams won the HKD 2m
No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) Main Event for $3.5m.
Adams
defeated Bryn Kenney to win that Main Event title. Despite collecting $3m for
his runner-up finish, Adams left Kenney feeling like a spear had punctured his
heart.
But the
New Yorker would rebound like a true champion.
In
Montenegro, May 2019, Kenney won the HKD 500k NLHE 6-Handed event and the HKD
1m NLHE Main Event for a combined bounty of $4.1m. The Montenegro event was a
monster, with 13-events. Henrik Hecklen, Steve O’Dwyer, Winfred Yu, Hing Chow,
Quek Sheng, John Juanda, Mikita Badziakouski, Ben Lamb and Daniel Cates were
amongst the winners. Rui Cao took down the HKD 1m Short-Deck event for $3.3m.
Kenney
continued his heater in Triton’s first visit to London by winning the £1m
Triton Million: A Helping Hand For Charity. It was an event that captured the
imagination of the entire poker community, raising more than $2.7m for charity,
and establishing Kenney at the top of the All-Time Money List.
The
record-breaking event attracted 54-entrants, and Kenney banked $20.5m, the
highest single payout in poker history, after agreeing upon a heads-up deal
with the eventual winner Aaron Zang, who collected $16.7m.
In
London, there were also wins for Linus Loeliger, Charlie Carrel, David
Benefield, Justin Bonomo, Yu Liang, and Wai Kin Yong who became the third
player to win three Triton titles when he won the £100,000 NLHE Main Event for
$3.1m.
The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series
Returns
It’s
time to do it all again.
The Triton team has sketched three events into its pad, with schedule details and potentially even more stops to come, shortly.
The
first event takes place at Jeju Shinwa World in South Korea with the action set
to take place between 10-22 February. From there, the series returns to the
Maestral Resort and Casino pitched on the side of the beautiful Adriatic Coast
in Montenegro, before returning to London for its second successive season,
where once again, the philanthropic nature of Triton will rise to the fore.
After taking you to a whole ‘nother level during the Triton Millions: A Helping Hand for Charity we felt like you needed a break from all of the excitement.
Well, break time is over!
Pack your bags, or prepare to tune in from home, because the Triton Super High Roller Series returns with its first event of 2020, and it promises to be another whizz, bang, wallop of a high stakes series.
February 10-22, 2020, Triton returns to South Korea and Jeju Shinhwa World for 12-days of mind-blowing poker, at the highest-stakes involving the best pros and semi-pros in the business.
When the Triton Poker Series first planted a flag in the Jeju Province in 2018 there were five events on the schedule. The return in 2019, saw that increase by two. 2020 adds even more value for the players and consumers of world-class poker content with an increase to 11 tournaments, featuring No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE), and Short Deck formats, as well as a Mixed Short Deck and No-Limit, Hold’em game.
The two eye-catching events are the HKD 1m NLHE Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Main Event, and the HKD 1m Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Short-Deck Main Event.
Amongst the glitterati confirmed to participate in the festival, include Triton Poker Ambassadors Tom Dwan and Jason Koon, Triton Million London winner Aaron Zang and the legendary poker ace Phil Ivey
Players receive five nights free accommodation at the Marriott Hotel Jeju Shinhwa World for every HKD 1m in tournament buy-ins they compete in. For example, if you compete in HKD 2m worth of buy-ins then you receive 10 nights free accommodation.
Once again the Triton Super High Roller Series offers unparallelled digital coverage, available in English for free on the official Triton Poker Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook channels, and the Triton website.
