As one main event finishes, another begins on the Triton Series.
Tonight in Montenegro, inside the poker room of the Maestral Resort, Bryn Kenney completed the job on the full deck main event, winning $2.7 million and his second trophy of the week. But over his shoulder, the short deck version was just getting started, and it will certainly be even bigger.
A last-minute change of schedule was necessary to accommodate the arrival to Montenegro of a charter plane carrying a valuable cargo short deck poker aficionados. They had only a couple of days and they wanted to play big, so the HKD 1 million event was brought forward and got under way at 3pm.
There was time for six levels and 69 entries (46 uniques; 23 re-entries), meaning the prize pool is already at HKD 65 million ($8.25 million). It will only grow larger tomorrow as registration is open for another two hours. The poker room was as busy at it has been all week, and 38 players were still there at the end.
Fulin Sun was the man out front. You could say he had put all of his better known opponents in the shade. The man from China, with no recorded cashes on the western poker databases, bagged 1.35 million chips, which was a good deal more than everyone else in the room. If his chip count wasn’t enough to demonstrate his enthusiasm, Sun was also the first player to register for the tournament, booking him ticket No 1. It sat beside his ever growing stack all day, and he’ll come back tomorrow as No 1 in the leader board too.
Sam Greenwood, Isaac Haxton, Mike Watson and the Triton Ambassadors Tom Dwan and Jason Koon also reached for a bag tonight. They find themselves in the chip-counts below. Of the established stars, Timofey “Trueteller” Kuznetsov had the most successful time of it. He finished with 893,000. Dwan, by contrast, needed a late triple to finish with his 202,000.
The chart below shows name, country, count and the seat draw for day two. That starts at noon, and they’ll play all the way to a final table. Please join us then.
| Fulin Sun | China | 1,350,000 | 3-5 |
| Guang Pu Lu | Canada | 1,007,000 | 7-6 |
| Timofey Kuznetsov | Russia | 993,000 | 8-7 |
| Arnaud Gilbert Romain | France | 780,000 | 6-7 |
| Wei Hsiang Yeu | Malaysia | 780,000 | 7-5 |
| Jun Wang | China | 772,000 | 2-1 |
| Tong Siow Choon | Malaysia | 735,000 | 1-1 |
| Ming Zhong Liu | Hong Kong | 712,000 | 1-5 |
| Rudoy Mikhail | Israel | 704,000 | 7-1 |
| Qiang Wang | China | 665,000 | 2-6 |
| Xuan Tan | China | 664,000 | 5-6 |
| Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 658,000 | 3-2 |
| Furkat Rakhimov | Russia | 628,000 | 5-2 |
| Isaac Haxton | United States | 623,000 | 5-3 |
| Rui Cao | France | 598,000 | 2-3 |
| Johnson Juanda | Indonesia | 575,000 | 5-1 |
| Samuel Greenwood | Canada | 549,000 | 8-5 |
| Seng Yee Ivan Leow | Malaysia | 541,000 | 8-1 |
| Dejan Pustoslemsek | Slovenia | 540,000 | 1-2 |
| Jochanan Robert Flink | Sweden | 529,000 | 7-3 |
| Kenneth Wee Kiang Kee | Singapore | 526,000 | 1-7 |
| Jesus Cortes | Spain | 504,000 | 6-3 |
| Wei Seng Paul Phua | Malaysia | 475,000 | 1-6 |
| Yan To Chan | Hong Kong | 470,000 | 8-2 |
| Jason Koon | United States | 459,000 | 6-2 |
| Max Silver | England | 440,000 | 6-5 |
| Sergey Lebedev | Russia | 433,000 | 2-7 |
| David Benefield | United States | 430,000 | 8-3 |
| Benjamin Lamb | United States | 417,000 | 7-7 |
| Thomas Anthony Dwan | United States | 402,000 | 3-3 |
| Ka Wing Winfred Yu | Hong Kong | 345,000 | 3-7 |
| Michael Watson | Canada | 322,000 | 3-1 |
| John Gabriel Patgorski | United States | 310,000 | 8-6 |
| Peter Jetten | Canada | 308,000 | 3-6 |
| Christopher Michael Soyza | Malaysia | 281,000 | 5-7 |
| Seng Chen Richard Yong | Malaysia | 194,000 | 2-2 |
| Daniel Cates | United States | 132,000 | 6-6 |
| Wai Kin Yong | Malaysia | 128,000 | 2-5 |
Photography by Joe Giron/www.pokerphotoarchive.com
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