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Triton: Punnat Punsri wins his second Triton title, adds $2,010,000
The number eight tournament was the $50,000 NLH 7-Handed at Triton Jeju, which brought 190 entries and a prizepool worth $9.5 million. A $2,010,000 prize awaited the winner here. A total of 68 players made it to the final day, but only 31 of them were able to make it to the ITM, where the smallest prize was worth $84,000.
A brief summary of the final table
Let's get straight to the most interesting part and that is the final table of the tournament, where the top 8 players were seated. Out of 31 players, Punnat Punsri was the chipleader, but it was Sergio Aido who made it to the final table as the chipleader, his second final table in two days.
As you may have noticed in the attached table, the final table was full of big names. First to cash was Steve O'Dwyer, who lasted until one hand. He took home $248,000 for his 8th place finish. He was followed by Phil Ivey, who finished in 7th place for $339,000. Sixth place went to Michael Soyza with $465,000, fifth place went to Ren Lin who pocketed $611,000 and Michael Watson finished in fourth place with $773,000.
Two final heads-ups in two days
Third place went to Brian Kim, who earned $954,000 in prize money. After his elimination, the players looked at the deal numbers, but the deal was immediately called by Punnat Punsri. Punnat Punsri went into heads-up play with a stack of 29M against Sergio Aida with a stack of 9M. Sergio Aido then battled his way into two final heads-up matches in two days, putting the title back within his grasp.
However, the heads-up lasted only two hands, after which Sergio Aido unluckily ran into Punsri's straight with his aces. Punnat Punsri thus enjoyed his second Triton title and a $2,010,000 reward. Sergio Aido had to settle for $1,353,000. However, Sergio earned a handsome $2,590,804 in just these two days.
# | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
1. | Punnat Punsri | Thailand | 2.010.000$ |
2. | Sergio Aido | Spain | 1.353.000$ |
3. | Brian Kim | USA | 954.000$ |
4. | Mike Watson | Canada | 773.000$ |
5. | Ren Lin | China | 611.000$ |
6. | Michael Soyza | Malaysia | 465.000$ |
7. | Phil Ivey | USA | 339.000$ |
8. | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 248.000$ |
Today we have Day 2 of the most expensive tournament
Along with the final day, the most expensive tournament of the entire Triton Jeju schedule has also played out, which is event number 9. This is the $150,000 NLH 8-Handed, which currently has an entries count of 93, meaning a prizepool of $13,950,000.
However, this number is not final. In fact, registration for this tournament is open until the start of Day 2. This is a three-day tournament, so we won't know the winner today.
The most famous names in the game
As we might expect, this tournament has attracted poker's biggest names. Leading the 39 advancers is Michael Addamo with a stack of 1,308,000. Artur Martirosian (1,305,000), Christoph Vogelsang (770,000), Patrik Antonius (764,000), Mikita Badziakouski (732,000), Fedor Holz (717,000), Jonathan Jaffe (669,000), Sam Grafton (637,000), Santhosh Suvarna (566,000), Phil Ivey (515,000), Dan Smith (461,000) and Dan Smith (461,000) will be keeping him company.000), Sam Greenwood (433.000), Ben Heath (422.000), Stephen Chidwick (421.000), Henrik Hecklen (405.000), Darren Elias (349.000), Kayhan Mokri (341.000), Mario Mosböck (320.000), Adrian Mateos (230.000), Isaac Haxton (211.000), Timothy Adams (210.000), Paul Phua (172.000) and Daniel Dvoress (119.000).
Who didn't make it any further?
With a buy-in this high, it's certainly interesting to see who busted out and is now minus at least $150,000. In this case, that would be Chris Brewer, Orpen Kisacikoglu, Danny Tang, Jason Koon, Seth Gottlieb, Nick Petrangelo, Leon Sturm, Joao Vieira, Sean Winter, Roland Rokita, Aleksejs Ponakovs, Juan Pardo, Jean Noel Thorel, and David Peters, to name a few.
The second day of play in the $150,000 NLH 8-Handed tournament will kick off at 1pm local time, which is 4am our time, when the blinds will start at 5k/10k/10k and players will run 45 minute levels.
Source - Triton Series, Joe Giron - poker photo archive