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Triton Jeju has started, today we will know the first champion of this year

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The Triton SHR Series made its first stop of the year in Jeju, Korea, bringing a host of exciting tournaments and the world's top poker players. Right from the opening tournament, we know we have something to look forward to.

South Korea and specifically the Landing Casino, Shinhwa World in Jeju will host the prestigious Triton Super High Roller Series over the next few days, bringing a total of 19 tournaments to the country from March 5-21. Buy-ins here range from $15,000 to $150,000 and the NLH Main Event will have a buy-in of $100,000. The entire series kicked off yesterday with a dancing lion ceremony.

#1 NLH - 8 HANDED

The very opening tournament is the $15,000 NLH 8-Handed, which brought in 269 entries. The very first prizepool is thus worth a handsome $4,035,000, and $786,000 awaits the winner here. The runner-up of the tournament will take home a whopping $500,000. Cash prizes await 47 players here and the smallest prize is worth $23,000. However, 48 players made it to today's final table, so someone will walk away with no money.

Familiar names everywhere you look

The chipleader of the final table is Stephen Chidwick, who bagged up a stack of 4,220,000. However, the list of finalists is full of familiar names, such as Fedor Holz (3,300,000), Isaac Haxton (2,675,000), Phil Nagy (2,025,000), Roman Hrabec (1,920,000), Roman Hrabec (1,920.Nick Petrangelo (1.700.000), Alexey Ponakov (1.585.000), Michael Soyza (1.085.000), Daniel Dvoress (560.000), Espen Jorstad (515.000) and Timothy Adams (300.000).

The final table of the first Triton Jeju tournament is scheduled to start at 13:00 local time, or 4:00 our time, when the blinds will start at 20k/40k/40k and players will run 35-minute levels.

Final Table payout structure:

  1. 786.000$
  2. 500.000$
  3. 375.000$
  4. 303.000$
  5. 240.000$
  6. 182.000$
  7. 134.000$
  8. 98.000$

Tournament number 2 also kicks off today

As is customary during Triton, each day one tournament will recognize a champion and another tournament will kick off at the same time. Tournament number two will once again be NLH 8-Handed, but this time the buy-in will be $20,000.



Source - Triton Series

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