Triton Poker Results 2026: Every Winner, Payout and Festival Recap

Triton Poker runs the highest buy-in tournament series in the world, where a single event can build a $34.6 million prize pool. Below you will find every 2026 result across both circuits: winners, field sizes, prize pools and payouts, festival by festival. It updates as each stop plays out.

The 2026 season has played four festivals across two countries, with a fifth stop to come in North Cyprus in November, and the results from each are below. Our complete guide to Triton Poker covers the schedule, the two circuits and how entry works.

Wang Ye won the closing $30,000 Turbo at Jeju II on 17 September for $256,000, beating Kiat Lee heads-up for a first Triton title. He had earned more than $11 million on the tour in two years without winning one.

Nick Petrangelo won the $150,000 10th Anniversary Special the same day for $2,212,910 after an ICM chop with Joao Simao, who took the bigger share for second. It is Petrangelo's second Triton title, and it closed a week worth close to $10 million for Simao.

Nick Schulman won the $100,000 Main Event on 16 September for $3,854,888, beating Bernhard Binder after an ICM chop. The Hall of Famer's first Triton win came in Jeju in July 2018, and this one arrived two days after losing a heads-up to Matthew Wantman in the $50,000 7-Handed.

Joao Simao won the $200,000 Triton Invitational on 14 September for $7,250,000, beating Ding Biao heads-up in the biggest field the event has ever drawn: 173 entries and a $34,600,000 prize pool.

Eight of the fourteen events at Jeju II went to first-time winners. Petrangelo, Schulman, Ben Tollerene, Simao, Dan Dvoress and Kiat Lee were the previous champions to win, and every result is in the festival section below.

Montenegro had the story of the season until September. Dan Dvoress won three events there, something no player had managed at a single Triton festival before, and Richard Gryko denied Jason Koon and his record title haul a thirteenth trophy in the $75,000 PLO.

Triton SHRS Jeju II, 4 to 17 September: complete, all 14 events played | 2026 season: 4 festivals complete, North Cyprus to come in November | 2026 prize money: SHRS $319,200,000, Triton ONE partial | Last updated: 17 September 2026

Event 16: Wang Ye Wins the Closing $30,000 Turbo for a First Title

Wang Ye won the $30,000 NLH Turbo on 17 September for $256,000, beating Kiat Lee heads-up in the last event of Jeju II. Lee took $176,000 for second, having bubbled the $150,000 10th Anniversary Special earlier the same day.

The event drew 23 entries, four of them re-entries, for a $690,000 prize pool, the smallest field of the festival. Only five places were paid.

Wang had earned more than $11 million on the tour in two years, with two runner-up finishes and no trophy. He led when the money was reached and finished the job.

The Bubble: Martirosian's Ace-Four Runs Into Sevens

Artur Martirosian burst the bubble, his 15 big blinds going in with A♥ 4♠ against Matthias Eibinger's pocket sevens. The pair held, and the last five were in the money.

In-the-Money Stacks

Ben Tollerene folded his big blind to become the short stack, then got A♥ K♦ into a three-way all-in against Eibinger's K♥ Q♠ and Punnat Punsri's J♥ 8♥. Punsri turned a flush for a near triple up, and fifth paid Tollerene $65,000, two nights after his Turbo Bounty Quattro win.

Punsri was still the shortest stack. He doubled through Eibinger, lost most of it to Lee, then put his last nine big blinds in with K♠ 4♠ and lost to Wang's J♠ 3♥. Fourth paid $81,000.

Matthias Eibinger three-bet jammed 18 big blinds with K♥ 10♥ over Wang's button open, and Wang called with A♣ 3♣. The ace-high held, and the seven-time champion took $112,000 for third.

Wang Rivers a Full House Against Lee's Straight

Wang started heads-up with 65 big blinds to Lee's 27. Lee had come back from a bigger deficit to win the Mystery Bounty eight days earlier and was chasing a fifth title.

It ended in a cooler. Lee raised 8♠ 4♣ from the small blind and Wang defended J♠ 7♣, flopping two pair on J♣ 7♠ 10♠.

The 9♦ turn made Lee a straight and the 7♥ river filled Wang up. The chips went in on the river, and Wang had his first Triton title.

Event 16 Final Table Results

Wang is the eighth first-time winner of the festival. Lee leaves Jeju II with a title, a second place, a fourth and a sixth, and Punsri with a third and two fourths.

Event 15: Petrangelo Wins the $150,000 Anniversary Special After a Chop With Simao

Nick Petrangelo won the $150,000 NLH 10th Anniversary Special on 17 September for $2,212,910, beating Joao Simao heads-up after the pair agreed an ICM chop with $80,000 left to play for. Simao led when the deal was cut and took the bigger share, $2,517,090, for second.

The event drew 67 entries for a $10,050,000 prize pool, with 11 places paid. Only the Invitational carried a bigger buy-in at Jeju II, and Seth Davies led at the end of day one.

It was the third Anniversary Special of 2026 and the smallest, after the 81 entries when Paul Phua won the March edition in the same room and 76 in Montenegro in May.

Petrangelo, 39, has played the tour for a decade, and this is his second title. It came six days after he chopped the $50,000 8-Handed with Pedro Padilha and finished second.

“It was a long trip, had a lot of deep runs, it was nice to finish with a good one,” Petrangelo told Triton.

Simao had won the $200,000 Invitational three days earlier for $7,250,000, and Triton put his week at close to $10 million.

The Bubble: Davies Survives, Lee Goes Out to a Friend

Davies was the first player all in on the bubble and doubled with A♥ K♥ against Petrangelo's A♣ Q♣. That left Alex Foxen, Simao and Murly Manokharan as the short stacks under pressure.

Kiat Lee and Danny Tang, close friends and both multiple champions, then clashed in the blinds. Lee's last 12 big blinds went in with A♦ Q♦ against Tang's A♥ K♠, locking up $251,000 for the 11 players left.

Foxen went out in 11th and Ben Tollerene, the Turbo Bounty Quattro winner two nights earlier, in 10th. That set a nine-handed final with 20 Triton titles around the table.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Dan Dvoress lost most of his stack when Manokharan three-bet jammed pocket queens over his open and A♣ 5♣ missed. Down to eight blinds, he found queens himself, and Miroslav Atanasov's A♥ 9♥ flopped two aces against them. Ninth paid $286,000 and more Player of the Year points.

Seth Davies, on 20 big blinds, three-bet A♦ 8♥ from the small blind over Petrangelo's button open and called off when Petrangelo jammed. Petrangelo showed A♥ Q♣ and it held. Eighth paid $377,000, on top of his third place in the Invitational.

Stacks were level seven-handed, with only Manokharan under 25 big blinds and only Thomas Boivin over 40. Then Petrangelo raised, Danny Tang three-bet A♦ K♦ from the blinds, and Atanasov four-bet pocket jacks.

Tang jammed 36 big blinds and Atanasov called with 38. The board ran nine-high, and the Triton ambassador took $483,000 for seventh.

Murly Manokharan open-jammed around 16 big blinds under the gun with A♣ Q♣, and Mateos re-jammed pocket queens from the small blind. No ace came, and sixth paid $613,000, his biggest Triton score.

“There was a bunch of tough players. And at the start a lot of us were pretty close. And then some huge hands happened that separated us pretty quickly.”
Nick Petrangelo

Thomas Boivin had barely played a pot as the final went from nine players to five. Then he three-bet A♠ J♠ from the cutoff over Atanasov's under-the-gun open, called Simao's 24 big blind button jam and ran into A♦ A♥, which left him under a big blind.

He won three hands in a row to get back to nine blinds before his pocket fours lost to Mateos's 7♣ 6♣. Fifth paid $783,000.

Mateos, Atanasov and Simao all had 35 big blinds at the next break, with Petrangelo on 30. Miroslav Atanasov, 12th in the Main Event in his first Triton tournament, then lost a big pot to Simao's rivered trip kings and another to Petrangelo.

His last chips, less than a big blind, went in from the big blind. Simao raised Q♣ K♦, Mateos called on the button with Q♦ J♦, and the board ran 3♦ 10♦ 8♥, K♠ and 4♥.

Mateos had flopped a flush draw and a gutshot, missed both and raised the river as a bluff, leaving himself four big blinds, and Simao tanked before calling with top pair. Atanasov went out fourth for $990,000, and Adrian Mateos had lost most of a 27 big blind stack.

Mateos doubled once with 6♦ 5♦ against Simao's deuces, then got 11 big blinds in with A♠ 10♠ and lost to Simao's pocket threes. Third paid $1,286,000 at his third final table of the festival.

A Chop, Then Three All-Ins

Simao led 69 big blinds to 21 when the pair called over Luca Vivaldi and agreed an ICM deal. It locked up $2,517,090 for Simao and $2,132,910 for Petrangelo, with $80,000 left on the side.

Neither wanted a long match. Petrangelo doubled on the first hand with A♦ J♦ against 9♠ 4♣, then won the next with 10♠ 2♥ against pocket threes.

Simao shipped his last five big blinds and lost to Petrangelo's A♠ 9♣. The two declared themselves joint winners and did the interview and photos together, but the official title is Petrangelo's.

“We chop and this doesn't make the tournament less special, but the opposite,” Simao told Triton. “It's so special that we have now two winners.”

Simao said he used to watch Petrangelo play online early in his own career. “I open my phone and get messages from my idols,” he said. “It's unbelievable what I'm living, so I'm very thankful.”

Event 15 Final Table Results

*Heads-up ICM chop with $80,000 played for. Simao's locked-up share was bigger than Petrangelo's total.

Petrangelo is the sixth previous champion to win at Jeju II. Simao leaves with the Invitational title, a runner-up finish here and the best week of his career.

Event 12: Schulman Beats Binder to Win the $100,000 Main Event

Nick Schulman won the $100,000 NLH Main Event on 16 September for $3,854,888, beating Bernhard Binder heads-up after the pair agreed an ICM chop with $140,000 left to play for. Binder took $3,080,112, and the win came 48 hours after Schulman's heads-up defeat to Matthew Wantman in the $50,000 7-Handed.

The event drew 196 entries from 118 unique players, 78 of them re-entries, for a $19,600,000 prize pool, second only to the Invitational this festival. Registration closed at the start of day two with $4.15 million listed for first place.

Schulman, 41, is an eight-time WSOP bracelet winner and the 2025 Poker Hall of Fame inductee. His first Triton title came in the same room in July 2018, a $13,000 Short Deck event with 61 entries.

Binder, 28, won the $125,000 7-Handed here in March and led the field into both day two and day three. He started the final as the shortest of nine stacks and still reached heads-up.

The Bubble: Two Friends Go Together and Split the Min-Cash

Hannes Jeschka and Samuel Mullur were all in at separate tables on the stone bubble. Jeschka jammed A♥ Q♥ over a Christoph Vogelsang four-bet and lost to A♣ K♣, and Mullur's pocket eights fell to Chahnhoon Jung's A♠ K♦ when an ace turned.

Busting together meant the friends split the min-cash for $86,500 each, and Javid Ismayilov, out in 33rd, became the retrospective stone bubble. Deep stacks and long levels then pushed the day-two target back from a final table to the last 12.

Zhou Quan, Alex Foxen, Vogelsang and Jesse Lonis all went before the bags, and Zeng Linglin and Jessica Teusl, the last two women in the field, finished 16th and 15th. Binder led the final 12, with Danny Tang second and chasing a back-to-back Main Event win after Montenegro.

Day 3: Aces for Schulman, Sevens Against Tang

The average stack was 27 big blinds with 12 left, and Schulman moved to the top early when his aces beat Binder's A♣ K♥. Wesley Fei doubled through Roberto Perez, and Miroslav Atanasov got his last seven blinds in against Binder and went out in 12th for $320,000.

Fei then doubled again with kings against Tang's A♠ K♥, and Chahnhoon Jung busted to Isaac Haxton in 11th to leave ten. Tang nursed four big blinds up to nine before running pocket kings into a Gytis Lazauninkas small-blind jam with 10♣ 7♣.

The Q♥ 4♦ 7♠ flop, 5♠ turn and 7♦ river made Lazauninkas trips, and Tang‘s title defence ended in 10th for $359,000. Blinds were rolled back two levels for the final.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Roberto Perez went first for $424,000. Binder moved in for nine big blinds from the hijack with pocket fours, Perez called for one blind fewer with A♦ 10♥ on the button, and the board missed both overcards.

Wesley Fei had 37 big blinds when he flopped a flush draw with K♥ 6♥ on Q♣ 9♥ 8♥ against Xu Yang. Both checked the flop and the 4♠ turn, then Xu bet half the pot on the 5♥ river, Fei raised, and Xu shoved.

Fei called with the second nuts and Xu showed A♥ 3♥. His last four blinds went in with pocket fours against Xu's kings on the next hand, and eighth paid $512,000.

Danilo Velasevic called Binder's 18 big blind jam from the small blind with pocket sevens, and K♦ 4♦ made a wheel on J♣ A♦ 5♥ 2♥ 3♥. The same two players tangled again once Velasevic was down to eight blinds, K♠ 2♠ against A♠ 2♦, and the ace held.

Seventh paid $700,000 to a player Schulman had described at the $50,000 final as seeing the game “in shapes and colors”.

“This is basically the final level of the game, playing Bernie heads up in a main event. He's unbelievable. You could just feel it playing with him.”
Nick Schulman

Six-handed, Schulman doubled through Haxton, Haxton doubled back, Lazauninkas doubled through Schulman, and Schulman doubled through Ryuta Nakai.

Isaac Haxton at his second Jeju II final, down to 12 big blinds, shoved A♥ 2♦ from the big blind over Binder's small-blind open with K♥ 3♣ and watched a three flop. Sixth paid $958,000, the last prize under seven figures, and Haxton walked over to the $150,000 event.

Ryuta Nakai shoved his last ten big blinds from the small blind with K♥ 3♣, and Schulman called from the big blind with A♣ 6♦ and 18 of his own. An ace flopped, and fifth paid $1,263,000, the biggest score of the Japanese player's career.

Four-handed stacks sat around 30 big blinds each, and Schulman doubled through Binder to take the lead back. Xu Yang held it for an hour before losing pots to Lazauninkas and Binder, then shoved K♥ 8♥ from the small blind over Schulman's button open with under 15 blinds.

Lazauninkas called from the big blind with pocket nines, Schulman folded, and the 10♥ 5♠ 2♣ J♦ 2♦ board missed Xu. Fourth paid $1,596,000, three places better than his previous Main Event final.

Gytis Lazauninkas held 32 big blinds three-handed against Schulman's 49 and Binder's 16, then lost small pots to both. He raised pocket eights on the button, called Schulman's jam from the big blind, ran into pocket tens, and took $1,968,000 for his second third place of the trip.

A Chop, Then Three Hands in a Row

Schulman had 62 big blinds to Binder's 20 when the pair called over the tournament director rather than play for a gap of $1.3 million and change. The ICM numbers locked up $3,714,888 for Schulman and $3,080,112 for Binder, with $140,000 left on the side.

Schulman rivered trips with 10♣ 3♣ in the first big pot to cut Binder to 10 blinds. He then hit a two with Q♦ 2♥, turned a queen with Q♥ 7♥, and found pocket kings against Binder's K♣ J♦ on the final hand, getting everything in by the river.

He had only made the trip because Eric Wasserson, his partner in the Invitational, won $5 million on High Stakes Poker the weekend before they flew. “I rallied and I came and I'm very happy that I did,” he told Triton.

“It's pretty unbelievable,” Schulman said. “I really want to go home and see my wife. The champ is coming home soon, baby, get ready.”

Event 12 Final Table Results

*Heads-up ICM chop with $140,000 played for.

It was 2026's biggest Main Event field, ahead of 178 in March and 159 in Montenegro, and the year's biggest Main Event first prize even after the chop. Schulman is Triton's latest two-time champion, and Binder's runner-up finish extends the run that started with his March title.

Haxton, second in the Player of the Year race, added $958,000 to his Event 3 third place, and Tang's back-to-back bid ended one place short of the final.

Event 13: Tollerene Wins the Turbo Bounty Quattro for a Fifth Title

Ben Tollerene won the $50,000 NLH Turbo Bounty Quattro on 15 September for $652,000, $412,000 plus four $60,000 bounties, beating Daniel Rezaei heads-up. Rezaei took $465,000 including three bounties for second, and the win was Tollerene's fifth Triton title, level with Mikita Badziakouski and Fedor Holz.

The event drew 35 entries, seven of them re-entries, for a $1,750,000 prize pool, with registration closing while more than 30 players were still in the $100,000 Main Event next door. Nine $60,000 bounties, $540,000 in all, came into play at the final table, and only six places were paid.

Tollerene had finished third behind Nick Schulman and Matthew Wantman in the $50,000 7-Handed the night before. “I'm really not even that happy with how I'm playing,” he told Triton, “so I'm feeling motivated to get better and keep working.”

The Bubble: Ivey, Chidwick and Dvoress Go, Then Pitavy Leaves With Nothing

Phil Ivey's exit in tenth put the bounties in play, his last nine big blinds going in with pocket threes against Dan Dvoress's A♥ 6♥, which rivered a flush.

Stephen Chidwick then outflopped Rezaei's pocket tens with king-four, got the rest in on an ace turn and lost to a ten on the river, the first bounty of the night.

Emilien Pitavy doubled through Dvoress, whose last chips went to Tom Fuchs in seventh.

The stone bubble ended in a three-way all-in: Mike Watson's king-jack made a flush from four big blinds to triple up, and Rezaei's seven-six paired the six to beat Pitavy's squeeze for a second bounty. Pitavy left with nothing.

In-the-Money Stacks

Ding Biao's seven-nine rivered a straight to crack Watson's queens straight after the restart and leave him three big blinds. Tollerene then squeezed all in from the cutoff over two limps with ace-eight, Watson called from the small blind with pocket fours and Fuchs with king-five, and an ace flopped.

Sixth paid $84,000 and fifth $109,000 plus the bounty Fuchs had taken from Dvoress. Both of their own bounties went to Tollerene.

Eelis Parssinen went on the next hand. He shoved top pair with a queen on a queen-jack-deuce flop, Ding called with queen-nine, and the better kicker held for fourth and $139,000.

Three-handed stacks were level, Rezaei 50 big blinds, Ding 46 and Tollerene 43. Rezaei won a 45 big blind pot with a turn shove on an ace-three-four board, Tollerene doubled back from 11, and Ding‘s king-five lost to a Rezaei straight in third.

That paid $181,000 plus a bounty, less than 24 hours after his Invitational runner-up finish.

Tollerene Comes Back From 21 Big Blinds

Rezaei started heads-up with 67 big blinds to 21 and three bounties in hand. Tollerene flopped a nine with nine-eight and value bet the river, rivered a queen and bet again, and was in front within a few hands.

Rezaei took the lead back in small pots before Tollerene, down to 19, doubled with six-five after flopping a five. That made it 32 to 24, and on the next hand ace-king beat Rezaei's ace with a smaller kicker preflop on a jack-six-nine board.

“I'm having a lot of fun,” Tollerene told Triton. “I feel good, I'm sad there's no PLO, I want to play more.”

Event 13 Final Table Results

Prizes exclude bounties. Rezaei's $285,000 is Triton's stated $465,000 total less his $180,000 in bounties.

Tollerene has a title and a third place from two $50,000 events in 24 hours. Rezaei is still waiting on a second title after his $60,000 win here in March, and Watson, who won two bounty events in Montenegro, could not add a third.

Event 11: Wantman Beats Schulman After a Chop in the $50,000 7-Handed

Matthew Wantman won the $50,000 NLH 7-Handed on 14 September for $836,721, beating Nick Schulman heads-up after the two friends chopped with $30,000 left to play for. Schulman took $810,279 for second, and Ben Tollerene made it an all-American top three.

The event drew 70 entries, 21 of them re-entries, for a $3,500,000 prize pool, played in the same room as the Invitational with 11 places paid. Wantman, 38, calls himself a mid-stakes grinder and told Triton that “if you can win here, you can win anywhere”.

Schulman, a Poker Hall of Famer with eight WSOP bracelets, was chasing a second Triton title more than eight years after his first. This was Wantman's first.

The Bubble: Vogelsang Falls Short Again

Danny Tang led after day one with Dan Dvoress close behind. Phil Ivey, Ferdinand Putra and Joe Hindry went early on day two to leave 12 players one from the money.

Christoph Vogelsang, down to a blind after Mike Watson's set of fours beat his pocket sevens, found sevens again with no fold equity. Danilo Velasevic called with A♠ 6♦ and Aliaksandr Shylko with A♦ 9♦, an ace flopped, and a river six gave Velasevic the pot.

It was Vogelsang's second bubble of the trip after Event 7. Bryn Kenney, the all-time money list leader, was the first player out in the money.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Blinds were rolled back for the final, which left nobody except Shylko below 18 big blinds.

Aliaksandr Shylko doubled once, then three-bet jammed K♥ 10♦ from the big blind over Tollerene's small-blind open five hands later and lost to A♦ 3♠. Seventh paid $168,000, a Main Event buy-in with change.

Three hands then took the table from six players to four. Danny Tang open-jammed K♥ Q♠ from the small blind, Dvoress called with A♠ J♥ and marginally the bigger stack, and the ace held. Sixth paid $213,000.

Danilo Velasevic raised pocket tens from the cutoff, shipped 21 big blinds over Wantman's three-bet and was snap-called by pocket kings. His last four blinds went to Schulman on the next hand, A♦ 10♣ beating K♠ 9♦, and fifth paid $273,000.

Dan Dvoress lost a third of his stack to a Schulman river shove, then jammed 14 big blinds with A♥ 9♦ from the small blind over Schulman's under-the-gun open. Schulman called with pocket jacks, the board ran ten-high, and Dvoress took $344,000 across the room to the Main Event.

Schulman held 99 big blinds three-handed against Tollerene's 21 and Wantman's 20. Ben Tollerene slipped to four blinds, doubled twice, then shoved six from the small blind with 9♠ 4♠ into Wantman's A♠ J♣. The four-time champion took $448,000 for third, then won the turbo bounty event the following night.

A Chop, Then Three Hands

Schulman had 47 big blinds to Wantman's 46 when heads-up began, and the pair chopped straight away: $810,279 to Schulman, $806,721 to Wantman, $30,000 on the side.

Nearly all of it went in preflop on the first hand, Wantman's J♣ 8♠ beating 8♥ 6♠. Schulman doubled his scraps once, then Wantman's A♥ J♥ beat Q♠ 7♠ to end it.

“It should be you up here,” Wantman shouted to Schulman from the winner's photo. “I haven't even had a chance to process it yet,” he told Triton. “Getting heads up against one of my best friends.”

Event 11 Final Table Results

*Heads-up chop with $30,000 played for.

Wantman leaves with his first trophy. Schulman's second title arrived two days later in the Main Event, and Dvoress added a fourth-place finish to his Event 6 win in the Player of the Year race.

Event 10: Simao Wins the Biggest Triton Invitational Ever Staged

Joao Simao won the $200,000 Triton Invitational on 14 September for $7,250,000, beating Ding Biao heads-up after a deal discussion came to nothing. Ding, a three-time champion, took $4,940,000 for second, and Simao's second Triton title took his earnings on the tour past $13,000,000.

The event drew 173 entries, 53 of them re-entries, for a $34,600,000 prize pool, both records for the Invitational. The first Asian edition passed the 137 entries and $27,400,000 pool Adrian Mateos beat in Montenegro in May, and 31 places were paid.

Sixty pairings signed up, 120 unique players and $24,000,000 before a card was dealt. Eighteen more bullets went in before day two under the event's one-hour re-entry rule, and Phil Ivey and Sosia Jiang were among those who had aces cracked on the opening day.

Simao, 37, won his first title in the Bahamas last December for $3 million. “This is by far the happiest moment of my career,” he told Triton.

The Bubble: Seven Doubles, Then Sun's Bluff

Seven players at risk survived in a row during hand-for-hand play. Thomas Boivin's kings beat Ramin Hajiyev's queens, Winfred Yu's A♠ K♦ beat Musk Thomas's ace-queen, Ding rivered two pair with K♦ Q♠ against David Coleman's K♣ 10♥, and Hajiyev's A♦ Q♣ beat Adrian Mateos's sevens.

Jessica Teusl's kings then beat Seth Davies' A♦ 10♦, Wang Yang's aces held against Jesse Lonis's ace-jack, and Wai Kin Yong's A♥ 9♠ beat Alex Wice's K♥ 4♥.

Semi Sun then did the bubble's work himself. On 59 big blinds, he called Wang's open with 5♣ 8♣, flopped top pair on 7♣ 7♠ 8♠, raised the A♥ turn and jammed 35 big blinds into a 50 big blind pot on the Q♠ river.

Wang called with A♦ 7♥ for a full house. Sun went out 32nd, and Wang, all in and at risk three hands earlier, moved to 158 big blinds and led the last 16 into the final day.

Day 3: Mateos Out, Four Champions Follow

Adrian Mateos, chasing a second Invitational title, lost a flip with J♣ J♦ against Emilien Pitavy's A♦ K♦ and went out 14th. Mehdi Chaoui, Teun Mulder, Jesse Lonis and Matthias Eibinger, all Triton champions, followed in 13th to 10th. Eibinger's chips went to Simao to set the final.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Five pros and four invitees made up the final, and Simao sat down alongside his own invitee, Winfred Yu.

Eric Tsai went first for $749,000. Simao opened K♥ 9♥ under the gun, flopped top pair on 4♥ 9♣ 3♥ and called Tsai's bets on the 5♣ turn and 10♦ river to beat 8♠ 7♦, leaving the Taiwanese player under a big blind. The last of it went to Ding.

Thomas Boivin three-bet the button with A♦ J♦ over Simao's open, and Davies four-bet squeezed A♠ K♦ from the small blind with the bigger stack. Boivin was priced in, called and got no help. Eighth paid $905,000.

Two hands later Davies three-bet pocket eights over Ding's raise and called a 17 big blind shove from pocket aces. An eight flopped, an ace turned, and Ding doubled.

Hannes Jeschka got his last three big blinds in with K♦ 7♠ from under the gun, and Yu called with K♠ 10♠ in the big blind. Seventh paid $1,237,000, the first seven-figure score of the event and of Jeschka's career.

Winfred Yu, a two-time champion and one of the architects of the tour in its earliest days, shoved his last six big blinds with A♠ 7♣ from the button. Simao, his own pro, found pocket tens in the big blind, and no ace came. Sixth paid $1,693,000.

Emilien Pitavy got K♣ J♠ in against Ding's A♣ 8♥ and an eight flopped, worth $2,245,000 for fifth. Two hands later Wang Yang‘s pocket fives lost a race to Simao's A♦ 10♦, and the man who led the field into day three went out fourth for a career-best $2,820,000.

Seth Davies, down to around 20 big blinds, called Ding's small-blind jam with Q♥ 9♣ and lost to K♦ J♥ on a blank board. Third paid $3,470,000, a year after his runner-up finish in the Montenegro Invitational.

Ding Picks Off Two Bluffs, Then Simao Runs the Table

Simao started heads-up with 66 big blinds to Ding's 38. The pair called over Luca Vivaldi to discuss a deal, could not agree, and played on for the $2,310,000 difference between first and second.

Ding took the lead in one pot, raising A♥ J♥ over Simao's limp and calling a raise with top pair on A♠ 5♦ 8♥. The Q♠ turn checked through, Simao bet 14 big blinds into 25 on the K♥ river with 6♠ 3♠, and Ding's call flipped it to 66 to 38.

Simao clawed back to near parity, then bluffed again. Holding 7♣ 6♣ for a missed straight draw on 5♠ 2♣ 4♠ J♥ 10♦, he led the river, raised over Ding's raise, and ran into A♥ 10♥. Ding led 71 blinds to 15.

Two all-ins then chopped: Ding's A♣ J♥ against Simao's A♥ 4♠ on a double-paired board, then Simao's A♦ 9♦ against Ding's A♥ 6♣ on Q♠ 5♥ 5♦ 5♠ K♠. A big pot with Q♠ 10♥ put Simao back in front, and both had around 26 big blinds at Level 32.

Simao came back from the break and won every significant pot in a five-hand burst. Trip eights with Q♥ 8♥ took 10 big blinds, blind steals stretched the lead to 41 to 11, and pocket kings finished it when Ding's 10♥ 9♠ flopped top pair on 5♠ 9♥ 5♦.

“I forgot to eat, so I was very, very hungry, very, very tired,” Simao told Triton of the break. “So I was lucky to get back the chips and win.”

Event 10 Final Table Results

Simao's face now joins the banners of multiple winners that line the Triton tournament room. Ding's three titles stay at three, and the $6,370,000 Mateos won in Montenegro lasted four months as the biggest Invitational first prize.

Event 9: Anton Beats Martirosian in the $30,000 Turbo

Alex Anton won the $30,000 NLH Turbo on 11 September for $577,000, beating Artur Martirosian heads-up in a match that ended with a six big blind average stack. The 25-year-old American is the second player born this century to win on the tour, and Martirosian took $411,000 for second.

The event drew 70 entries, eight of them re-entries, for a $2,100,000 prize pool, played on the eve of the Triton Invitational while the seat draw ran next door.

Anton first came to Jeju for Triton ONE in March and played two of the smaller Super High Roller Series events. His first final came in Event 7 this week, worth $279,000 for third.

The Bubble: Lin's Third Exit on the Cusp

Ren Lin was at risk on the edge of the money for the third event running, and lost again, A♦ 9♠ falling to Stephen Chidwick's pocket kings. He had finished two off the cash in Event 7 and burst the bubble in Event 8 earlier the same day.

Daniel Rezaei, who consoled Lin with a bear hug at the rail, was next out in 11th for $52,000. Jesse Lonis, a former turbo champion in this room, went in 10th to set a nine-handed final.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Chen Mingcong, at his second final of the week, went first for $60,000. He called off his last four big blinds against Winfred Yu's eight-blind shove, and Yu's A♥ Q♠ held against Q♥ J♦.

Yu, who said at the start of the week he expected a third Triton title from this trip, was back down to eight blinds an orbit later and followed in eighth for $79,000. He open-jammed J♠ 10♠ from under the gun and ran into Adrian Mateos's A♦ J♦.

Mikita Badziakouski, a five-time champion still waiting to add a sixth, lost a race for seventh and $101,000, his pocket fours beaten by Martirosian's A♦ K♣.

Six-handed, the average stack was nine big blinds and Martirosian led with 17. Chidwick got four blinds in with pocket queens over Alisson Piekazewicz's J♣ K♥ button open and held, leaving Piekazewicz with less than one blind, and Piekazewicz doubled twice to stay in.

Byron Kaverman doubled up Martirosian with A♦ 9♠ against A♣ J♣, doubled back through Chidwick, then put his last chips in with pocket fours. Martirosian's 10♣ 6♣ connected, and sixth paid $128,000, Kaverman's first cash of the trip.

Adrian Mateos shoved seven big blinds from the button over Martirosian's cutoff raise with A♠ J♥ and was called by Q♦ 9♥. The 9♣ on the flop sent him out fifth for $164,000, the night before defending his Triton Invitational title.

Anton doubled through Martirosian with A♦ Q♦ against K♣ Q♠ to take the chip lead, and Martirosian doubled straight back, pocket fives beating Chidwick's Q♦ 2♦. Chidwick then lost 10♦ 6♣ to Anton's J♠ 4♣ and took $207,000 for fourth.

Piekazewicz had come back from under a blind to reach the last three. He ran into Anton's set of aces for half of his six big blinds, then lost the rest with 10♣ J♠ to Martirosian's 7♣ 4♣, worth $269,000 for third.

Anton Holds the Last Flip of the Night

The pair started heads-up sharing 28 big blinds, Anton 16 to Martirosian's 12. Anton moved 12 to five in front and got 8♣ 4♣ in against A♠ J♣, but the better hand held and the stacks were level again.

It was nine blinds apiece, then seven after a level change. Martirosian flopped a flush with 9♥ 4♥ to survive, then took J♦ 8♠ up against pocket jacks and flopped an eight before turning another.

Three more all-ins went to the shorter stack before Anton's K♥ 6♠ held against 3♥ 5♥ to end it. “It was fun, but we were just flipping for a lot of money,” Anton told Triton, calling the finish “a crapshoot”.

Event 9 Final Table Results

Anton beat Chidwick, Mateos, Badziakouski, Yu and the reigning Ivan Leow Player of the Year at one table, and told Triton he will be back. His two Jeju II final tables, in a $40,000 bounty event and a $30,000 turbo, are worth $856,000 combined.

Event 8: Padilha Takes the $50,000 After an ICM Chop With Petrangelo

Pedro Padilha won the $50,000 NLH 8-Handed on 11 September for $1,400,860, beating Nick Petrangelo heads-up after the pair agreed an ICM chop with $50,000 left to play for. Petrangelo took $1,201,140 for second, and Padilha became the fourth Brazilian to win a Super High Roller Series title.

The event drew 129 entries, 41 of them re-entries, for a $6,450,000 prize pool, with 32 players left at the end of day one. The 39-year-old had finished second to Aleksejs Ponakovs in the $100,000 Main Event in the Bahamas in 2025.

The Bubble: Lin Goes One Place Worse

Ren Lin, two off the money in Event 7, was the stone bubble this time. He three-bet jammed nine big blinds with A♥ Q♦ from the small blind over Alejandro Lococo's early-position open, and Petrangelo was waiting with A♣ A♠ in the big blind.

Lococo folded, Lin flopped a gutshot and missed, and he went out in 21st.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Aren Bezhanyan, at his second final of the trip, was first at risk and doubled, A♥ 2♥ beating Alex Boika's Q♥ 5♣. That left Sasaki Yoko shortest, and her last six big blinds went in with pocket nines into Petrangelo's tens. Ninth paid $155,000, her third cash of the trip.

Kiat Lee, chasing the first back-to-back titles in Triton history, doubled through Petrangelo with aces and did it again after the dinner break, aces beating K♦ Q♦. Eight players were still in with a 16 big blind average, and Petrangelo led with 37.

Eelis Parssinen raised all but a quarter of a small blind with A♥ 7♣, Wang Yang called with pocket queens, and the 5♦ 10♠ 3♣ flop brought no ace. Eighth paid $200,000.

Phil Ivey found pocket nines as Petrangelo found jacks, and Petrangelo made a flush to send him out seventh for $271,000.

The short stacks then held: Padilha doubled, Boika doubled, Wang doubled, and Boika doubled again with pocket sevens against Petrangelo's nines. Lee‘s back-to-back bid ended in sixth for $361,000 when K♠ 8♣ and four big blinds ran into Boika's pocket sixes.

Wang Yang ripped A♣ 6♣ in from the button with the average at 13 big blinds, and Padilha called from the small blind with A♦ 8♠. Fifth paid $461,000, and the pot moved Padilha into a narrow chip lead.

Bezhanyan, down to four big blinds, called Boika's shove with J♣ 10♣ and lost to K♥ 4♠ when a king flopped alongside a ten. Fourth paid $574,000 to the Armenian, who had done the same thing here in March with back-to-back finals.

Boika doubled Petrangelo up on the next hand, then cracked his set of aces with Q♥ J♥, a flopped flush draw filled on the river.

Those chips went to Padilha a few hands later. Boika called a six-blind three-bet jam with A♦ 9♠, lost to A♣ K♠, and his bid for a second title in three days ended in third for $697,000.

A Chop, Then a Gin Card for Padilha

Padilha had 35 big blinds to Petrangelo's 17 when the pair asked to see the numbers. They agreed a straight ICM chop, $1,350,860 to Padilha and $1,201,140 to Petrangelo, with $50,000 left on the side.

It took one hand. Petrangelo's K♠ 4♠ got in against Q♣ 8♠ and flopped a four, and the eight on the turn sent the trophy to Brazil.

“He's a legend,” Padilha told Triton of Petrangelo. “He's a tough player. I was running good, that's it.” He said he had spent recent years playing more outside Brazil and South America and was happy with the results.

Event 8 Final Table Results

*Heads-up ICM chop with $50,000 played for.

Padilha outlasted two players who had already won this week, Boika and Lee. Petrangelo's second Triton title came six days later in the $150,000 10th Anniversary Special, and this was the biggest prize pool of the festival before the Invitational.

Event 7: Lee Turns a Bubble Escape Into a Fourth Title

Kiat Lee won the $40,000 NLH 7-Handed Mystery Bounty on 9 September for $619,000 and eight bounty envelopes, beating Jamil Wakil heads-up, who took $419,000 and six bounties for second. Both had been all in against each other on the bubble nine hours earlier, and Lee survived that one too.

The event drew 133 entries, 49 of them re-entries, for a $5,320,000 prize pool. A quarter of the field, 33 players, bagged bounty tokens on day one, with the official money bubble set to burst at 23.

Each envelope carries a $40,000 minimum, so Lee's eight are worth at least $320,000 on top of the first prize, with the draw scheduled for the following day.

Lee won his first Triton title here in 2025 after 17 final tables and five heads-up defeats, then added a third trophy in the $50,000 Short Deck in March.

The Bubble: Lee Survives, Vogelsang Does Not

Ren Lin lost his last five big blinds two off the money, getting A♥ 6♣ in against Alex Kulev's 3♠ 6♠ and Sam Mullur's K♦ 8♣. A 9♠ 10♠ 7♣ 6♦ 4♦ run-out made Mullur a straight, and Mullur doubled through Kulev in the same pot.

Those chips let Mullur play the hand that ended it. Christoph Vogelsang jammed 11 big blinds with pocket tens, Mullur called with queens, and Vogelsang went out in 24th. Lee was all in on the same deal and doubled through Wakil to stay alive.

Two Four-Way All-Ins Put Lee in Front

The first came at 21 players. Alex Boika (A♦ 10♥) and Kulev (A♣ J♠) both busted, Kayhan Mokri took a bounty token for finishing second in the hand with A♠ K♠, and Lee's K♣ K♦ won the main pot.

The second, 11-handed across two tables, was the hand of the tournament. Seth Davies shoved three big blinds with K♣ 9♠, Mullur re-jammed 27 with K♥ 9♥, and Phil Ivey called on the button with A♦ 9♦.

Lee then looked down at two black aces in the big blind with everyone's outs blocked, and the board ran clean. Three knockouts took him to 89 big blinds and three more bounty tokens, each with an expected value near $70,000.

David Coleman was the last player out before the final, in eighth for $77,500. He called Lee's button raise with A♣ 4♦, made two pair on an A♥ 8♠ Q♠ 6♣ 4♥ board, and ran into Lee's A♦ 6♠.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Mokri survived the first all-in of the final, his pocket sixes holding against Punsri's A♠ 9♣ and Lee's J♥ 7♥ for a triple up.

Joe Hindry went first for $105,000. He shoved 15 big blinds with A♥ J♦ over a Wakil open, Wakil called off 18 with A♠ K♠, and the better hand stayed in front. It was Hindry's second final of his debut Triton festival after a sixth place in the Titi Poker.

Mokri tripled again before he went, his A♥ 4♥ making sixes full on a 4♦ 8♦ 6♣ 6♦ 6♥ board that gave Wakil (A♦ K♦) and Anton (Q♦ 9♦) flushes. Wakil took it back with A♣ A♠, flopping a set against Mokri's 6♠ 6♦ and calling a river jam. Sixth paid $142,000.

Sirzat Hissou jammed six big blinds with K♥ J♠ and lost to Lee's 6♣ 3♥, which rivered a straight. Fifth paid $184,000 to the German, who had taken the quietest route to the last five.

Two more went in one pot four-handed. Wakil opened K♠ J♣, Punsri shipped A♥ 9♦ and Anton found A♦ K♦ in the small blind, and an 8♠ J♥ K♣ 9♥ 5♥ board gave Wakil two pair. Punsri took $229,000 for fourth and Anton $279,000 for third.

Lee Flops a Ten to End Wakil's Chase

Wakil started heads-up with 89 big blinds to Lee's 18, the same margin Lee had faced most of the night. Lee flopped a set of sixes against 9♣ 8♣ on the first significant pot and it was 70 to 36 inside one hand.

Four hands later the stacks were level. The pair got it in with ace-jack each and chopped, a win there clinching it for Wakil, and Lee edged back in front.

Wakil's last nine big blinds went in with A♥ 6♠ against Lee's J♣ 10♣, and the flop brought a ten.

“Clearly I'm not very good at heads-up because I'm defeated in heads-up so many times,” Lee told Triton, five losses in before this one. He credited a packed rail and Triton founding player Paul Phua, saying “without Triton, nobody would know me”.

Event 7 Final Table Results

Prizes exclude bounty envelopes, drawn separately. Lee finished with eight, Wakil with six.

Lee and Dvoress were the first previous champions to win at Jeju II, and their titles came within hours of each other after four straight maiden winners. Wakil is still without a Triton trophy.

Event 6: Dvoress Wins the Rematch With Liu for a Seventh Title

Dan Dvoress won the $30,000 NLH 8-Handed on 9 September for $942,000, beating Xuan Liu heads-up in a single hand and leaving her $638,000 for second. It was his seventh Triton title, level with Matthias Eibinger and Mike Watson behind Jason Koon's 12, and his fifth of 2026.

The event drew 135 entries, 44 of them re-entries, for a $4,050,000 prize pool, with 23 places paid. The final was a rematch of their 2025 Montenegro heads-up, where Liu became the first woman to win on Triton, beating Dvoress for $860,000 in the first Triton event she had entered.

Dvoress had not played a live tournament since closing Montenegro with his third title of that festival in May, and spent the summer on tennis, hiking and gardening instead. He said he arrived wondering whether the momentum would hold, “and apparently, yes”.

The Bubble: Vaitiekunas Falls Three Times

Paulius Vaitiekunas burst the bubble late on day one, losing big pots to Yu Zhang and Yuna Kanaizumi before Artur Martirosian took his last chips.

Day one closed with 18 left and Dvoress leading on 2,590,000, Liu second after her pocket eights held against Yan Jingyao's ace-king on the final hand. Ben Tollerene, Stephen Chidwick, Alex Kulev, Nick Petrangelo and Danny Tang were still in, and Isaac Haxton had missed the money in 28th.

Two knockouts at once set an eight-handed final for the second night running: Ren Lin fell to Liu at one table and Kulev to Dvoress at the other.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Blinds were rolled back two levels for the final.

Gytis Lazauninkas survived the first all-in of the final, his A♥ K♥ chopping with Yan's A♠ Q♥ after Yan turned a straight and Lazauninkas rivered Broadway of his own.

Ben Tollerene went first for $118,000. The four-time champion shoved 18 big blinds over Dvoress's under-the-gun open and Lin Meng-Ling's call, Dvoress called with Q♥ Q♣, Lin folded, and Tollerene's A♣ J♣ never caught up.

Yan then won a flip against Lun Loon, A♥ Q♠ beating J♥ J♦, and Loon was seventh for $160,000 soon after. He shoved A♥ 9♦ from the button into Liu's Q♠ Q♥ in the blinds, and a third queen arrived. It was his twelfth Triton final without a win.

Yan went sixth for $217,000 with the better hand. He three-bet jammed A♠ K♣ from the small blind over Dvoress's button open, Dvoress called with A♣ 10♥, and the ten on a Q♦ 6♥ 5♦ 10♦ 8♦ board settled it.

Stephen Chidwick, down to nine big blinds, shoved A♠ K♦ over Lazauninkas's open with J♥ J♣ and lost the race, a third jack landing on the river. Fifth paid $279,000, and the man second on the all-time money list is still without a hold'em title on the tour.

Lin Meng-Ling jammed her last eight big blinds with 9♥ 9♣ over a Dvoress open, was called by K♥ 8♥, and a king flopped. Fourth paid $348,000, her first Triton cash.

Lazauninkas doubled through Dvoress four-handed, Q♠ 4♠ against 10♦ 5♠, then got 17 big blinds in with pocket queens against Dvoress's A♦ 10♦. The 8♦ A♥ 9♥ flop found the ace, the 2♣ and 3♣ changed nothing, and third paid $424,000, a Triton best for the Lithuanian.

Dvoress Wins the Rematch in One Hand

Liu had come back from 16 big blinds against 61 in Montenegro. This time she started with 19 to Dvoress's 89, and there was no second hand.

Dvoress shoved pocket threes on the first deal, Liu called with K♥ J♣, and the board ran out a wheel for the threes.

Event 6 Final Table Results

Dvoress and Liu are the first two players to meet twice in a Triton heads-up, and the score is one each. The win was the first at Jeju II to go to a previous champion after four maiden titles in the opening four events.

Event 5: Boika Completes a Week of First-Time Winners

Alex Boika won the $25,000 NLH 8-Handed on 8 September for $761,000, beating Philip Sternheimer heads-up and leaving him $516,000 for another second place. The 38-year-old from Minsk had two seven-figure Triton scores and a runner-up finish to Daniel Rezaei in March's $60,000 here, but no trophy.

The event drew 131 entries, 39 of them re-entries, for a $3,275,000 prize pool. Thirty-minute levels took the field through the bubble late on day one, and 17 players bagged with $38,000 locked up.

The field's best story was Reda Achnit, a 24-year-old Moroccan freeroll qualifier who had never played a live tournament. He knocked out Adrian Mateos and Eelis Parssinen on the way to 14th and $51,000, where Seth Davies' nut flush ended the run.

The Bubble: Big Slick Holds

Brandon Wilson burst the bubble with 25 players left, his A♣ K♣ holding against Hannes Jeschka's K♠ 9♠.

Two hands at 11-handed then set an eight-handed final. Davies knocked out Wilson while Boika eliminated Jesse Lonis and Artur Martirosian at the other table. Wilson and Martirosian fell at the same moment, so both took $70,000.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Vladas Tamasauskas, who had already cashed in 21st and 10th this week, went first for $95,000. He jammed 22 big blinds with Q♥ Q♦ over Boika's three-bet, Boika called with A♠ Q♠, and the A♦ on the turn sent him out.

Manuel Fritz followed in seventh for $130,000, his J♣ 9♣ losing to Yu Lei's K♣ 3♦ when a king flopped alongside a jack.

Chen Mingcong, one of two former champions at the final after his $30,000 win here in March, was sixth for $175,000. His A♥ K♣ lost a race to Sternheimer's pocket tens on a 8♠ 7♣ 6♠ 8♥ J♥ board.

Seth Davies, the other former champion, started the final as chip leader and lost it all in three pots. His 8♥ 8♦ doubled up Yu Lei's A♥ A♦, his A♣ 2♠ lost to Nevan Chang's J♣ 10♠, and his last two blinds went in with Q♣ 7♦ against Yu's 10♠ 9♠, worth $226,000 for fifth.

Chang held on with three big blinds until pocket sixes forced the issue. Sternheimer opened with a suited ace, Chang shoved, and Boika found pocket queens in the big blind to send him out fourth for $282,000.

Three-handed stacks were level: Boika 34 big blinds, Sternheimer 31, Yu 23. Yu limped J♦ 10♥ from the small blind and three-bet jammed over Boika's raise, ran into A♥ Q♦, and took $343,000 for third.

Boika Calls a Shove With One Pair, Not Two

Boika started heads-up with 56 big blinds to Sternheimer's 32, and the stacks barely moved for six hands.

Then Sternheimer raised 9♥ 7♥ from the small blind and Boika called with J♠ 6♦. Both checked a 5♥ 8♦ 3♣ flop, where Sternheimer had a gutshot, and the J♥ turn gave Boika top pair and Sternheimer a flush draw to go with it.

Boika checked, Sternheimer bet, Boika check-raised and Sternheimer jammed. Boika called believing he held two pair, realised at the table it was one, and watched the A♠ river miss every one of Sternheimer's outs.

“I was thinking that I had two pair and I wanted to snap call,” Boika told Triton. “I rechecked my hand and it was one pair.”

Event 5 Final Table Results

Boika is the third Belarusian winner on the Super High Roller Series in two years, all still well short of Mikita Badziakouski's five titles. Sternheimer had lost a Triton heads-up before and is still waiting to win one.

Event 3: Ngo Steps Up From Triton ONE to Win the Titi Poker

Ngo Khoa Anh won the $25,000 NLH Titi Poker on 8 September for $1,090,000, beating Anatoly Filatov heads-up inside eight hands after Filatov turned down a deal. Filatov, who won the equivalent event in Jeju last year, took $733,000 for second.

The 34-year-old took up poker during the pandemic. He won a $2,000 turbo at Triton ONE's debut stop last September and the $10,000 7-Handed there in March, the circuit's first double champion, and this is his biggest career score.

The event drew 210 entries, 82 of them re-entries, for a $5,250,000 prize pool, with 34 places paid from $43,500. It carried the name of Triton's new online sponsor and a last-longer prize, a free $25,000 seat in North Cyprus in November, which went to Filatov.

The Bubble: Tens Into Jacks, Then Ivey

The bubble ran for more than an hour before Wang Jun three-bet jammed 20 big blinds with pocket tens over Yan Jingyao's open and was called by jacks.

Phil Ivey, who missed the money in the opener, went out on the next hand at the same table for $43,500 in 34th. David Coleman then knocked out Ander Vallinas, Victor Chong, Laszlo Bujtas and Danilo Velasevic on the way to the final, arriving with more than 90 big blinds.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Blinds were rolled back for the final, which turned Boivin's six big blinds into ten.

Thomas Boivin went first for $111,000, A♦ 4♥ failing to catch Filatov's pocket sevens on a Q♥ 8♥ 3♦ flop. Batmunkh Unubukh, at his first Triton final, was eighth for $134,000 when his J♣ J♦ lost to Bezhanyan's A♠ K♣ on the river.

Chu Chi-Jen, fifth in Event 2 for $233,000, lost a third of his stack with A♣ 10♥ to Filatov's K♠ 10♦ full house, then shoved A♥ 2♥ into Haxton's pocket nines. He flopped an ace alongside the 6♣ 5♥, turned a flush draw with the 7♥ and lost to the 8♣ river straight, worth $184,000 for seventh.

Day two ended there, with Coleman on 40 big blinds and Haxton, Bezhanyan and Filatov within six of him. Joe Hindry, at his first Triton festival, went sixth for $250,000 on the final day, K♦ 9♠ beaten by Filatov's king-queen.

Coleman four-bet jammed K♦ J♦ into Ngo's aces, dropped to ten big blinds and lost them to Bezhanyan's A♠ K♣. The start-of-day chip leader took $330,000 for fifth.

Bezhanyan then got A♣ K♦ in preflop against Haxton's A♦ K♠ and watched a 10♠ 7♠ Q♦ 2♠ J♠ runout give Haxton a flush. He rebuilt from four blinds once before Q♥ Q♣ lost to Ngo's J♠ 9♠, a turned flush, and $417,000 for fourth.

Three-handed, Ngo held 52 big blinds to Haxton's 28 and Filatov's 25. Haxton ran J♣ 9♦ into Filatov's aces, then three-bet A♦ 5♦ into Ngo's A♠ 7♥, which flopped a seven. Third paid $515,000.

Ngo Turns Two Pair to Deny Filatov a Double

Ngo led 51 big blinds to 37 when the pair talked numbers, played on without a deal, and widened the gap with nine-three suited in an 18 big blind pot.

On the eighth hand Ngo limped 8♣ 5♠ and Filatov checked Q♣ 8♠. A 2♥ 8♦ 7♥ flop gave Filatov top pair, Ngo bet small, and Filatov, down to 18 big blinds after a level change, shoved.

Ngo called, the 5♣ turn made him two pair and the 6♠ river changed nothing. He told Triton it was “the hardest final table I've ever played”.

Event 3 Final Table Results

Four former Super High Roller Series champions, Filatov, Bezhanyan, Haxton and Coleman, all finished behind a player whose Triton career began in a $2,000 turbo a year ago. He is the second Vietnamese champion on the tour.

Event 2: Roiter Beats Lococo to a First Title

Klemens Roiter won the $20,000 NLH 8-Handed on 6 September for $771,000, beating Alejandro Lococo heads-up from a 51 to 19 big blind deficit and leaving him $520,000 for second. The 35-year-old Austrian had reached 12 Triton final tables without a trophy, four of them in Main Events.

The event drew 174 entries, 63 of them re-entries, for a $3,480,000 prize pool. Thirty-minute levels pushed the field through the bubble late on day one, and 25 players returned with $35,000 locked up.

Lococo, the man who took $12,070,000 in the 2024 Triton Million, knocked out five of the eight players he faced at the final before Roiter turned the match.

The Bubble: Aces, Kings and Ace-King

Du Qiao moved in for 13 big blinds with A♦ K♥. Xuan Liu, the first woman to win on the Super High Roller Series, called with pocket kings, and Webster Lim re-shoved from the big blind with aces.

The board ran dry. Du left with nothing, Liu min-cashed soon after, and Lim took the chip lead into day two.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Ding Biao went first, A♥ 10♦ losing to Lococo's pocket deuces for $78,000. Lonis followed in eighth, his pocket jacks beaten by Lococo's J♦ 7♠ when the 7♥ turn made trips on a 7♦ 3♠ 6♣ flop.

Yu Zhang, the final-table chip leader, lost most of his stack to Chaoui's rivered flush and went out seventh with K♥ 8♠ into Justin Saliba's A♥ A♣.

Lim was sixth for $179,000, A♠ K♥ beaten by Chaoui's Q♦ J♦. Roiter's 9♥ 9♦ then made a straight flush on a Q♥ 10♥ K♣ 8♥ J♥ run-out against Chaoui's A♣ 6♠, leaving Chaoui four big blinds.

Chu Chi-Jen went fifth for $233,000 after his pocket eights lost to Lococo's A♥ 3♥. Chaoui doubled through Lococo but still had only nine big blinds when the biggest pot of the final arrived.

The final three-way pot ended it: Saliba's Q♠ J♦ and Chaoui's 9♥ 9♦ both fell to Lococo's A♣ 10♠, which rivered the nut flush on J♣ 7♥ 8♣ Q♣ 9♣.

Roiter Fills Up Against a Hero Call

Lococo started heads-up with 51 big blinds to Roiter's 19.

Roiter levelled the match with J♠ 7♥, top pair on a 3♣ 2♦ J♦ flop, moving in on the 6♥ river for two thirds of the pot and getting called by Lococo's 10♥ 9♦ after the 9♥ turn had paired him.

The next hand decided it. Roiter checked 7♦ 2♣, flopped a pair on 5♦ 7♥ 10♣, turned trips with the 7♠ and filled up on the 5♥ river. Lococo called the shove with Q♠ J♥ for queen high and was left with less than a big blind.

He doubled once, then Roiter's 10♥ 8♥ paired an eight against A♣ 9♦. Roiter's 18th Triton cash was his first win, and he told Triton he was “still shaking”.

Event 2 Final Table Results

Three previous Triton champions sat at the final, Ding Biao and Webster Lim with three titles each and Jesse Lonis with four. All three went out before the final four.

Event 1: Theologis Wins the $15,000 Opener

Alex Theologis won the $15,000 NLH 8-Handed on 5 September, beating Victor Chong heads-up for $642,000 and a first Triton title after two third places and a runner-up finish on the tour. The 33-year-old Greek led for most of day two and started the final nine as chip leader.

The opener drew 206 entries, 83 of them re-entries, for a $3,090,000 prize pool at Les A Casino. March's $20,000 opener at the same venue drew 247. Phil Ivey, Thomas Muhlocker and Danny Tang all missed the $25,500 min-cash, paid from 34th place.

Chong banked a career-best $431,000 in second. Theologis plays online as Pwndidi, where we covered his first GGMillion$ super high roller title, worth $299,880.

The Bubble: Kings Against Kings

Theologis knocked out the bubble himself. Alisson Piekazewicz, who won the Mystery Bounty at this venue in March, check-raised a 5♣ K♦ 3♥ flop with K♥ Q♦, called down through the J♥ turn and 8♣ river, and was shown K♣ 3♣ for two pair.

Pocket kings did the rest of the work on day two, becoming quads against Liu Qiang and flopping trips to crack Bernhard Binder's aces. Nick Petrangelo fell in 13th and Joao Simao in 10th, which set the final table before 5pm local time.

Final Table Starting Stacks

Wang Yang went first for $65,000, all in blind with A♦ 7♦ against Chong's A♣ 10♥. Mateos followed in eighth for $79,000 when his K♥ J♥ lost a race to Chong's pocket eights.

Ehsan Amiri took $108,000 in seventh, K♠ Q♠ beaten by Rezaei's A♥ J♣, and Rezaei $147,000 in sixth when his Q♦ J♦ met Chong's A♣ 6♥.

Yin Tao, on his Triton debut, found aces twice at the final and turned an 11 big blind start into $194,500 for fifth, J♠ 10♠ finally losing to Kiat Lee's A♦ 7♠.

Lee had the chip lead at one stage but went out fourth for $245,500, A♠ 10♠ losing to Theologis's A♣ 8♣ when an eight flopped. Punsri was third for $302,000 after his A♥ 3♣ ran into Chong's A♣ J♣.

Chong Bluffs Into a Third-Pair Call

Chong started heads-up with 47 big blinds to 22. Theologis turned a straight with K♥ 5♥ to edge ahead, then, holding Q♦ J♦ against Chong's Q♥ 4♣ on a 7♦ 5♠ Q♠ flop, raised him off top pair when the A♠ hit the turn.

The decisive hand followed. On a 6♥ J♣ 9♣ 5♠ K♥ board Chong moved in nine of his last 11 blinds with A♣ 10♥, and Theologis called with Q♣ 9♠ for third pair to leave him two big blinds.

Chong doubled once, then his 8♥ 4♣ lost to J♠ 10♦ on the next hand.

Event 1 Final Table Results

Six-time champion Punnat Punsri, the reigning GPI Player of the Year, was the only player among the last three with a title to his name. Four of the nine finalists began with 12 big blinds or fewer.

Triton's numbering skips 4 and 14, so the 14 events at Jeju II run from Event 1 to Event 16.

Every previous Triton Invitational was staged in Europe or the Caribbean. The first Asian edition drew 173 entries and a $34,600,000 prize pool, both records for the event, and Joao Simao won it for $7,250,000 on 14 September.

Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro, 13 to 28 May

Sixteen events, thirteen champions and $105,565,000 in prize money at the Maestral Resort in Montenegro. Dan Dvoress won three of those titles, the first player to do that at a single Triton festival in the tour's ten-year history.

Week two: two Main Events and a record

The second week, 21 to 28 May, carried both Main Events and switched to Pot Limit Omaha for the closing four, three of which finished inside 48 hours.

Danny Tang won the $100,000 NLH Main Event for $3,522,000 and a sixth Triton title, from 159 entries and a $15,900,000 pool. Three days later Aleksejs Ponakovs took the $150,000 10th Anniversary Special for $3,027,000, and Tobias Schwecht landed a maiden title in the NLH/PLO Mix.

Then the PLO stretch, and Dvoress. He won the $100,000 PLO Main Event for $2,018,000, and on the final night took the closing turbo as well for $367,500 including bounties. That was the third title of his festival.

Matthias Eibinger claimed a seventh title in between, taking $700,000 in bounties alone in the PLO Mystery Bounty.

Richard Gryko then denied Jason Koon a thirteenth title heads-up in the $75,000 PLO. Koon banked $879,000 and his record stands at 12, clear of every other multiple Triton champion.

Week one: Dvoress opens, Mateos wins the Invitational

The opening week, 13 to 20 May, ran eight No Limit Hold'em events, building from a $25,000 opener to the $200,000 Triton Invitational.

Dvoress set the tone on day one, winning the $25,000 Golden Decade opener on 13 May for $849,000. It was his first Triton title in No Limit Hold'em.

That completed the Triton Trident, wins in hold'em, Pot Limit Omaha and Short Deck. Only Jason Koon and Mike Watson had done it before.

Fedor Holz followed with a fifth title in the Mystery Bounty, taking 11 bounties on the way. Holz won the very first tournament the Triton Poker Series ever staged, in the Philippines in 2016, which made it a fitting result in an anniversary season.

Chris Nguyen won the $50,000 for $1.5 million and a first Triton title, and Mike Watson took the $30,000 turbo. The week closed with the Invitational, where Adrian Mateos beat 137 entries and a $27,400,000 prize pool for a career best $6,370,000.

Triton's numbering skips 4 and 14. Where a buy-in shows two figures, the second is the bounty portion.

Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju, 14 March to 1 April

Twenty events and $110,430,000 in prize money at Les A Casino, making March the biggest festival of the season so far. Jason Koon came within one hand of a thirteenth title, and Ben Tollerene won a second Main Event.

Week three: the PLO stretch, 28 March to 1 April

The festival closed with five straight Pot Limit Omaha events.

Alex Foxen ended a difficult series with a fourth career title, taking the $75,000 PLO for $1,270,000. Matthias Eibinger won the PLO Main Event for $1,787,000 and a sixth title, having played his first PLO event only the previous December.

Artur Martirosian, the reigning Ivan Leow Player of the Year, knocked out every opponent at the Mystery Bounty final table for a fourth title. It gave him a four-from-four heads-up record.

Chan Wai Leong finally won a trophy in the $25,000, more than a decade after playing the tour's first events.

Week two: Main Event and Anniversary Special, 21 to 27 March

The middle week carried the two biggest No Limit Hold'em events on the schedule.

Ben Tollerene won the $100,000 Main Event for $3,766,000, a second Main Event title and a fourth overall, having previously won the PLO Main in Montenegro. Days later Paul Phua, the tour's founding player, won the $150,000 event staged to mark Triton's tenth anniversary, for $3,226,000.

Punnat Punsri took the NLH/PLO Mix for a sixth title, pulling clear of a group of players on five. Jesse Lonis won nine of twelve available bounties in the Turbo Bounty Quattro for a fourth.

Mehdi Chaoui's turbo was the 250th event in Super High Roller Series history.

Week one: Dvoress denies Koon, 14 to 20 March

The Short Deck block opened the festival and ran alongside the first No Limit Hold'em events, which is why the numbering starts in two places.

The week's defining hand came in the $100,000 Short Deck. Jason Koon had a shot at a record-extending thirteenth title and Dan Dvoress denied him, taking $1,380,000. It was the first of two occasions Koon fell short in 2026, the other coming in Montenegro in May.

Aren Bezhanyan opened the No Limit Hold'em schedule by becoming Armenia's first Super High Roller Series champion for $990,000.

Zhou Quan took a second career title in the Jupiter event, and Kiat Lee beat Paul Phua heads-up in the $50,000 Short Deck for a third.

Triton's numbering skips 4, 14 and 20, and the Short Deck block was numbered 21 to 23 but played first. Where a buy-in shows two figures, the second is the bounty portion.

Triton ONE Jeju, 5 to 15 March

Triton ONE is the tour's lower buy-in circuit, and it produces the largest fields in Triton history. The $3,000 QQPK Genesis drew 1,236 entries, a record for any Triton event.

Ngo Khoa Anh became the first double champion on Triton ONE, beating a 347-entry field for $612,000 from six big blinds at the final table. Six months later he won the $25,000 Titi Poker at Jeju II, the first Triton ONE champion to win on the Super High Roller Series.

Artur Martirosian took the $3,000 PLO for $64,000 and became the first player to win on both Triton circuits. Punnat Punsri finished third and Igor Yaroshevskyy fourth, both Super High Roller Series champions.

Chen Sin-Lan won Taiwan's first Triton ONE trophy, and Timothy Chung chopped the closing turbo with Aaron Gao, taking the trophy and $1,032 less than the runner-up.

Triton ONE results to follow for the remaining events. Triton has published these in its festival round-up; the rest sit on individual event pages.

Montenegro put Dan Dvoress in front of the season-long race, which Triton says will be settled in North Cyprus in November.

Standings at the close of Montenegro, before Jeju II points.

Dvoress led by 664 points before Jeju II and has since won Event 6, finished fourth in Event 11 and ninth in Event 15. Triton's own report from the $150,000 final called him the man to catch in Cyprus.

Haxton took third in Event 3 and sixth in the Main Event, and Tang added sixth, 10th and seventh-place finishes in Events 11, 12 and 15. Tollerene, seventh before the festival, won Event 13 and cashed four more times, and the order will move once Jeju II points land.

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