Registration closed at 1pm today on the first event of the Triton Series Special Edition in Cyprus — and the headline speaks for itself. Despite the $50K buy-in representing the smallest event on the schedule, the tournament winner will bank more than $1 million.
It bodes very well for the remainder of the festival, where bigger buy-ins will mean prize pools will necessarily escalate too.
But back to this first event: the total number of entries hit 82, including 37 re-entries. There was a flurry of those on the second morning, with players eliminated yesterday digging deep to remain in the hunt.
The tournament also welcomed Teun Mulder to the fray. The Dutchman missed the opening day but bought in at the last minute to become the 45th unique player in the event. The prize pool therefore crept close to $4 million. The full payout schedule is below — and you’ll see that a min-cash is worth a buck short of $100K, i.e., twice a buy-in.
TRITON CYPRUS SPECIAL EDITION
EVENT 1: $50K SIX-HANDED NLHE
Dates: April 2-3, 2022
Entries: 82 (inc. 37 re-entries)
Prize pool: $3,936,000
1 – $1,082,000
2 – $770,000
3 – $503,800
4 – $387,100
5 – $307,000
6 – $240,100
7 – $188,000
8 – $147,000
9 – $113,000
10 – $99,000
11 – $99,000
TRITON FAMILY EXTENDS WITH 15 DEBUTANTS IN CYPRUS
The world of Super High Roller poker is close-knit and familial. Everybody tends to know and respect everybody else. It is far from a closed shop, however, and newcomers are always welcome, whether they originate in the poker or the business community.
The evidence for that is plain to see here in Cyprus, where 15 players sat down in the opening $50K no limit hold’em event who had never before played on the Triton Series.
A number of them are familiar faces in other Super High Roller events, including Jake Schindler, Ali Imsirovic, Rok Gostisa and Chris Brewer, who typically play the high buy-in tournaments in the United States, with great success.
But we also saw for the first time the Hungarian duo of Andras Nemeth and Laszlo Bujtas, plus fellow Europeans Johan Guilbert, of France, and the Russian pair Artur Martirosyan and Viacheslav Buldygin. Barak Wisbrod became the first Israeli to play on the Triton Series.
But Triton Series is of Asian origins, and it’s good to see another handful of players appearing from that continent playing for the first time too. Siang Ewe Eng and Loon Ling Tien are Malaysian; Tommy Kim is from South Korea; William Tjokroprawiro is from Indonesia; and Bong Lo Kai is from Hong Kong.
All are very welcome and no doubt good things are in the offing too.
NEWS FLASH! ADDITIONAL TOURNAMENT ADDED
By Triton standards, the schedule here in Cyprus was fairly sedate, with four tournaments spread over six days. But it didn’t take too long for that to change, with organisers this morning adding a fifth event.
A $50K NLHE Turbo will start on April 4, at 4pm, and play to a winner that night. Registration for this event will end at completion of Level 8 (approx 7:00pm) with unlimited re-entries up until that point.
With 20 minute levels, this one should move along briskly. But it’ll still mean a late night — and a huge prize pool, no doubt. The Short Deck events will start as scheduled the following day.
Here’s the structure sheet for the new event:
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