Montenegro Poker Archives

Lamb leads slaughter in Triton’s PLO debut

The first Pot Limit Omaha tournament ever to be played on the Triton Super High Roller Series kicked off in Montenegro today, with 22 players finding the HKD $200,000 ($25,500) buy-in, and those players adding 15 re-entries too.

That meant a total prize pool of HKD 6.956 million ($886,347), with HKD 2.64 million ($343,200) for the winner. Five places will be paid.

When Day 1 came to a conclusion after 11 levels, the the two-time WSOP final table player Ben Lamb was leading the way with a stack of 1.727 million. Lamb rocketed into the lead during the earliest exchanges of the day, becoming the first man through 1 million and the first man through 2 million too. He was never under much threat, even though Gabe Patgorski’s late double up nibbled a few hundred thousand from him.

Meanwhile Hing Yaung Chow, Wai Leong Chan and late entrant Viacheslav Osipov enjoyed late surges up the leader board. All finished within a few blinds of Lamb.

Osipov knocked out Michael Soyza, and also took a huge pot from Luc Greenwood in the penultimate level of the day. Meanwhile Chan took care of the other Greenwood, Sam, and Chow finished the job on Luc to end the night. Chan has 1.597 million, Chow has 1.575 million and Osipov has 1.528 million.

The day ended with nine players, but they’re still all very deep stacked. The average will be 62 big blinds when they return for Day 2 at noon tomorrow, and no one is guaranteed a place in the money. We will have the thrill of an $85,000 bubble to kick us off.

Here are the full chip counts for the remaining players, in order of their seating assignments for tomorrow. The payout schedule follows.

Seat 1: Wai Leong Chan, Malaysia – 1,597,000
Seat 2: Henrik Hecklen, Denmank – 1,040,000
Seat 3: Ben Lamb, USA – 1,727,000
Seat 5: Robert Flink, Sweden – 965,000
Seat 6: Viacheslav Osipov, Russia – 1,528,000
Seat 7: Hing Yaung Chow, Malaysia – 1,575,000
Seat 8: Gabe Patgorski, USA – 1,024,000
Seat 9: Isaac Haxton, USA – 938,000
Seat 10: Mike Watson, Canada – 706,000

Event #8: Pot Limit Omaha
Dates: May 11-12, 2019
Buy-in: HKD 200,000 ($25,500)
Entries: 37 (inc. 15 re-entries)
Prize pool: HKD 6,956,000 ($886,347)

1st – HKD 2,640,000 ($343,200)
2nd – HKD 1,706,000 ($221,780)
3rd – HKD 1,130,000 ($146,900)
4th – HKD 820,000 ($106,600)
5th – HKD 660,000 ($85,800)

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Short deck champ in Montenegro to earn $3.35m

The headline news on a fine May afternoon on the Adriatic Coast is that deep inside the Maestral Resort and Casino, Budva, Montenegro, a poker player will tomorrow win HKD 26.3 million ($3.35 million).

Registration closed at around 2.30pm today on the Triton Series Montenegro short deck main event, with 47 players contributing 98 HKD 1 million ($127,000) entries. It built a prize pool of HKD 92.12 million ($11.74 million), from which the top man will earn that staggering payout.

POS	HKD	USD
1	$26,300,000	$3,350,725
2	$17,100,000	$2,178,608
3	$11,800,000	$1,503,367
4	$9,070,000	$1,155,554
5	$7,200,000	$917,309
6	$5,620,000	$716,010
7	$4,400,000	$560,578
8	$3,400,000	$433,174
9	$2,630,000	$335,073
10	$2,300,000	$293,029
11	$2,300,000	$293,029

Barring something miraculous in the smaller buy-in events next week, this will be the single biggest prize-pool of the 11-event series and will determine yet another major winner on the richest and most prestigious tournament series in the world.

Eleven players will be paid, with a “min-cash” redefining that term. The smallest payout is HKD 2.3 million ($293,000).

Players celebrated news of the enormous prize pool with a visit to an exclusive buffet — replete with goldfish and bubbling cauldrons of red liquid (not for consumption) — before settling back to play into the money tonight.

They’ll play the final table tomorrow, at the same time as the first Pot-Limit Omaha event gets started on the Triton Series.

Xuan takes early lead as Event #2 promises first millionaire

The Triton Series Montenegro slipped quickly into top gear at the Maestral Resort in Przno today as 45 players took their seats to play the second event of a 10-tournament series, no limit hold’em six-max. Between them they amassed 79 entries of HK$500,000 (US$63,733 approx) apiece. That created a prize-pool of HK$37.130 million (US$4.73 million) and ensured we’ll quickly be naming our first millionaire of this high buy-in festival.

The winner, to be decided on Tuesday, will take HK$11.23 million (US$1.43 million) — and get his visit to Adriatic coast off to the best possible start.

After 12 levels of play today, China’s Tan Xuan took the overnight chip lead, bagging 1.876 million from a starting stack of 200,000. Xuan was the first man registered for the tournament, and clearly likes playing in Montenegro. He recorded the biggest result of his career this time last year when he finished second to Triton Ambassador Jason Koon in the short deck main event, and he is already the man to catch in this one.

Erik Seidel: A menacing figure in second place

Of course, he’s got a super high quality field already breathing down his neck. Xuan’s closest challenger is Erik Seidel, who bagged 1.308 million, but all of Koon, Alex Foxen, Igor Kurganov, Sergio Aido, Christoph Vogelsang, Bryn Kenney and recent Triton Jeju champion Timothy Adams are in the mix.

Steve O’Dwyer: The first man in a “Champion” cap

Steve O’Dwyer, who won the first event of the week today and dedicated it to his mother on her birthday, also joined the fray, as did every one of his beaten final-table opponents: Isaac Haxton, Linus Loeliger, Beh Kok Weng and Sam Greenwood.

The full counts for the 24 players who survived are as follows. Everyone else will need to wait until 3pm tomorrow for another chance. That’s when Event #3 beckons the short-deck demons to the Maestral Resort to play their favourite game for HK$100,000 per entry. Join us then.

CONFIRMED PRIZE POOL:

Triton Montenegro Event #2: 6-Max Hold’em
Dates: May 5-6, 2019
Buy-in: HK$500,000
Entries: 79 (inc. 34 re-entries)

Landing Pages

POS	PRIZE HKD	PRIZE USD
1	$11,230,000	$1,431,264
2	$7,430,000	$946,954
3	$5,070,000	$646,172
4	$3,820,000	$486,859
5	$2,970,000	$378,527
6	$2,300,000	$293,135
7	$1,820,000	$231,959
8	$1,410,000	$179,705
9	$1,080,000	$137,646

CHIP COUNTS/DAY 2 SEAT DRAW

1	Xuan Tan	China	1,876,000	3-2
2	Erik Seidel	United States	1,308,000	5-5
3	Cheok Ieng Cheong	Macau	1,291,000	1-5
4	Wai Leong Chan	Malaysia	1,129,000	2-1
5	Christoph Vogelsang	Germany	1,111,000	3-1
6	Jesus Cortes	Spain	1,027,000	3-5
7	Max Silver	England	978,000	5-1
8	Ivan Leow	Malaysia	775,000	5-3
9	Bryn Kenney	United States	767,000	3-4
10	Jason Koon	United States	743,000	1-1
11	Beh Kok Weng	Malaysia	601,000	5-6
12	Winfred Yu	Hong Kong	585,000	1-3
13	Richard Yong	Malaysia	504,000	2-5
14	Lucas Greenwood	Canada	477,000	2-3
15	Alex Foxen	United States	432,000	2-2
16	Linus Loeliger	Switzerland	324,000	1-4
17	Danny Tang	Hong Kong	313,000	2-4
18	Samuel Greenwood	Canada	298,000	5-4
19	Steve O Dwyer	United States	280,000	1-2
20	Antanas Guoga	Lithuania	275,000	3-3
21	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	264,000	2-6
22	Sergio Aido	Spain	224,000	1-6
23	David Peters	United States	125,000	5-2
24	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	111,000	3-6

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