Sam Greenwood Leads Event #1: HK$250,000 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo on the Opening Day of Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro 2019.
The banners surrounding the poker room in the Maestral Resort & Casino tell you it’s the place where high stakes dreams are dealt. At the end of Day 1 of Event #1: HK$250,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed we’re about to find out, as everyone involved in this incredible tour catches 40-winks before waking up and doing it all again.
The opening gambit of this ten-day poker extravaganza attracted 31 unique entrants, and with unlimited re-entries open until the start of Level 9, the crowd dipped into the piggy bank 11-times, to seal the prize pool at HK$10,575,000 (USD 1,348,000).
The high roller scene is busy this time of year, with the Triton Poker Series in Montenegro sandwiched in between the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo and the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Those that ran deep in the French principality, and competed in Event #1 included Sam Greenwood, Daniel Dvoress and the two-time Triton Poker Series Main Event winner, Mikita Badziakouski. However, none of them fared better than the Triton Jeju Main Event winner Timothy Adams, who flew into Montenegro with three final tables under his belt including a €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em event victory and a deep run in the Main Event finishing 8/922.
Badziakouski couldn’t find the cards that helped him become a back-to-back Triton Main Event winner, bowing out in 37th place, and the Belarusian didn’t even bother to fire a second bullet. Adams fared a tad better finishing in 13th place after running Td8d into the Jd9d of Chan Chung Yin, and Greenwood, did what Greenwood typically does – he finished the day with more chips than anyone else.
Greenwood has made the final table of two Triton Poker Series events, finishing fourth in the HK$ 2,000,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event in Jeju back in 2018, and runner-up to Michael Soyza in the HK$ 500,000 No-Limit Hold’em event in Jeju back in March – could this be his moment to pick up the win?
The Canadian is the only player to bag up more than 2 million in chips. Players who felt the full might of Greenwood were Bryn Kenney, running AT into AK, blind on blind, and his compatriot Daniel Dvoress whose AT lost a fatal race against pocket deuces.
Joining Greenwood at the final table is the online superstar Linus “LLinusLLove” Loeliger, the exceedingly watchable Beh Kok Weng, the WPT Champions Club member, Deitrich Fast, final table ever-present, Isaac Haxton, high stakes MTT powerhouse Steve O’Dwyer, and Malaysia’s Wei Lim Chin.
Day 2 begins on Monday 6 May, noon, where we two people will miss out on a four buy-in money bubble.
Brutal.
Here are the finer details.
Triton Montenegro Event #1: No-Limit Hold’em Turbo
Buy-in: HK$250,000
Entries: 45 (inc. 11 re-entry)
Prize pool: HK$10,575,000
Payouts
1 – HK$ 4,020,000
2 – HK$ 2,590,000
3 – HK$ 1,720,000
4 – HK$ 1,240,000
5 – HK$ 1,005,000
Full 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
Photography by Joe Giron/Poker Photo Archive.