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Roland Rokita is Triton champion, earns $904,000 lifetime prize
The Triton SHR Series Jeju moved on to its third tournament during yesterday's event, which will know its champion today. However, in addition to that, the final day of Event #2, which was the $20,000 NLH 8-Handed with 225 entries and a prizepool of $4,500,000, also took place.
Final Day Event #2
Thirty-two players entered the final day and all of them already had at least $31,000 in their pockets. However, $904,000 was waiting for the winner. Czech player Roman Hrabec was again in contention for this prize, but he finished in 25th place, taking home $39,500. Making his way to the 9-seat final table as a massive chipleader was Alexandr Zubov with a stack of up to 14,450,000.
Yu Xiangyu was the first to bust out, taking home $94,500 for 9th place. He was followed to the cash desk by initial final day chipleader Tobias Schwecht, who took home $113,000. Seventh place went to Damir Zhugralin for $154,000 and sixth place went to Leon Sturm, who pocketed $210,000. Leon was down to his last 4 blinds during the first day and started the final day with only 6 blinds, his final result is so remarkable.
Playing down to the last five players, Roland Rokita was already in the lead:
Fifth place went to Alexandr Zubov, which earned him $278,000, fourth place went to Mikita Badziakouski ($355,000), and third place went to Kiat Lee with a prize of $439,000.
Heads-up action
Roland Rokita and Sirzat Hissou faced each other in the final heads-up, with the stacks being two-to-one in Roland's favour. However, it didn't take long for Hissou to take the lead. His lead didn't last long either, however, and Rokita reasserted himself.
The last hand of the night saw a battle of nines (Rokita) versus deuces (Hissou). The nines held up after the board was dealt and we met the new champion, former Austrian ski jumping champion Roland Rokita.Both players scored lifetime bests, Rokita with $904,000 and Hissou with $599,000.
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Roland Rokita | AUT | 904,000$ |
2. | Sirzat Hissou | GER | 599,000$ |
3. | Kiat Lee | MLY | 439,000$ |
4. | Mikita Badziakouski | BLR | 355,000$ |
5. | Aleksandr Zubov | RUS | 278,000$ |
6. | Leon Sturm | GER | 210,000$ |
7. | Damir Zhugralin | KZ | 154,000$ |
8. | Tobias Schwecht | GER | 113,000$ |
9. | Yu Xiangyu | CN | 94,500$ |
Third tournament full of big names
As is tradition, another tournament played out yesterday along with the final day, this time number three, which is the $25,000 NLH 8-Handed Silver Main. This one brought in 298 entries, bringing the prizepool to $7,450,000. As much as $1,455,000 awaits the winner here and the runner-up will receive $922,000.
63 players have advanced to the final day, but only 47 of them can make it to the ITM. The mincash is worth $42,000. The chipleader here is Steve O'Dwyer with a stack of 2,515,000. The list of finalists includes Dan Smith (2,040,000), Juan Pardo (1,825,000), Roman Hrabec (1,625,000), Adrian Mateos (1,390,000), Benjamin Chalot (1,335,000), David Coleman (1,190,000), Jean Noel Thorel (1,065,000), Joao Vieira (995,000), Orpen Kisacikoglu (970,000), Orpen Kisacikoglu (970.000), Kayhan Mokri (960.000), Isaac Haxton (855.000), Daniel Dvoress (745.000), Ole Schemion (665.000), David Peters (650.000), Phil Ivey (620.000), Lászlo Bujtas (535.000), Jason Koon (515.000), Michael Addamo (510.000) or Paul Phua (400.000).
The final day will kick off again at 1pm local time, which is 4am our time, when the blinds will start at 15k/30k/30k and players will run 35/40 minute levels.
Source - Triton Series, Joe Giron - poker photo archive