The Triton Poker Series’ latest visit to Jeju, South Korea, began with a enormous bang at the Landing Casino on Wednesday when organisers recorded 379 entries to the first event, a new attendance record for the tour.
The $15,000 buy-in no limit hold’em event kicked off an 18-day festival featuring 18 high-stakes tournaments — and players arrived in their droves. The turnout built a prize pool of $5,685,000, of which the champion will win $1,100,000.
The tournament plays to its conclusion on Thursday.
“We are all enormously happy to see the Triton Series break records yet again in Jeju,” said Triton CEO Andy Wong. “It’s always especially exciting to see so many new faces discovering Triton for the first time.”
He added: “We are extremely proud of the events we arrange, which we know are the best on offer in world poker. The number of players we continue to attract proves it, and it gives the whole team so much pleasure to see so many people enjoying the Triton experience. We know they will all be back.”
Wong joined Triton co-founders Paul Phua and Richard Yong at a spectacular opening ceremony outside the Landing Casino, where an incredible Dancing Lions show officially welcomed players to Triton Jeju.
The previous largest field on the Triton Series came at the same venue in March 2024, when there were 305 entries to a $25,000 buy-in event. The new record is all the more impressive in a tournament that permits only one re-entry. (More commonly, Triton events offer unlimited re-entries.)
The record-breaking field featured 266 unique players and 113 re-entries.
The top seven biggest fields in Triton Series history all came here in Jeju a year ago, including the only previous occasion on which the 300 barrier has been broken. That was for the $25,000 buy-in GG Million$ event, won by Mario Mosböck for $1.19 million — although Spain’s Sergio Aido, the official runner-up, took $1.24 million from a heads-up deal.
This festival runs until March 15, 2025 and features events in No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha and Short Deck.
Full schedule:
February 26 – Event #1: $15,000 NLH 8-Handed Single Re-entry
February 27 – Event #2: $20,000 NLH 8-Handed
February 28 – Event #3: $25,000 NLH 8-Handed
March 1 – Event #5: $30,000 NLH 8-Handed
March 2 – Event #6: $25,000 NLH WPT Global Slam
March 3 – Event #7: $40,000 NLH 7-Handed Mystery Bounty
March 4 – Event #8: $50,000 NLH 7-Handed
March 5 – Event #9: $150,000 NLH 8-Handed
March 6 – Event #10: $50,000 NLH Bounty Quattro Turbo
March 7 – Event #11: $100,000 NLH Main Event
March 8 – Event #12: $125,000 NLH 7-Handed
March 9 – Event #13: $25,000 PLO 6-Handed
March 10 – Event #15: $50,000 PLO 6-Handed
March 11 – Event #16: $100,000 PLO Main Event
March 12 – Event #17: $30,000 PLO Bounty Quattro
March 13 – Event #18: $30,000 Short Deck
March 14 – Event #19: $50,000 Short Deck
March 15 – Event #20: $25,000 Short Deck Turbo