Sam Soverel Wins $100,000 Triton Paradise PLO Main Event for $2,594,000

The American was crowned champion on his Triton Super High Roller Series debut and will take home an impressive $2,594,000 prize, handsomely improving on his previous career best score of $1,024,364.

This impressive victory puts Soverel almost into the top 30 on the all-time money list, right behind Phil Hellmuth. He also takes home his fourth WSOP bracelet.

As one of the top regulars on the high-stakes circuit, it’s incredible that Sam Soverel hadn’t journeyed out to dip his toes in Triton waters.

But better late than never, and after burning $75,000 in the first PLO event of the series he was right back on form in this showpiece, taking the lion’s share of the $10,300,000 prize pool.

In his winner’s interview Soverel said:

“It was great,” he added. “I love to play. Happy I came down here now. I came two years ago, and I didn’t really enjoy it. It was rainy every day and stuff. But now that Triton’s here, all the tournaments have been run amazing and it’s been a good experience so far.

“The chip lead is really big in PLO,” he said. Of the hand against Gryko, he said, “I felt pretty good right after it happened. But I think I very quickly lost [the chip lead], so it was back to a battle. It was a pretty weird final table.

“Normally someone gets the chip lead and kind of runs everyone over. But this was all back and forth the whole time with everyone.”

Heads-Up Action Recap

An unexpected 103 entries saw the event continue into an extra day. Local gambling laws required the heads-up battle to pause as it went past 3.30am on Sunday.

When Soverel and Andras Nemeth returned to the playing hall, both of whom had led the event at some point, it was the American who held what looked like an insurmountable lead — 83 big blinds to the Hungarian’s 20.

But this is heads-up poker and the game is PLO. Anything, literally anything, could have happened.

Sadly, though, we didn’t get to witness any fireworks and after six hands with little action, it all came to a head in the seventh with Nemeth’s stack having shrunk to only 14 big blinds.

Soverel was dealt K♠ K♣ 5♦ 3♣ in the small blind and went for a complete. Nemeth looked down at A♠ J♠ J♥ 9♥ and raised it up.

Soveral decided against a slowplay, instead going for the three-bet and Nemeth obliged with the rest of his chips going into the middle.

The board ran out 7♣ 10♦ 6♠ 2♥ K♥ and Soverel’s kings were enough to see him crowned champion in only his second Triton event.

Event #3: Triton – Paradise 2025 $100,000 PLO Main Event Final Table Results

Daniel Rezaei Defeats Kanit in $50k NL High Roller Turbo

Another big result from the weekend was Austria’s Daniel Rezaei taking down the $50K NL High Roller Turbo in what is the only single-day event on the WSOP Paradise 2025 schedule.

The tournament attracted 151 entries for a total prize pool of $7,474,500, paying out $1,900,000 to Rezaei, almost doubling his previous best prize money of $1.1 million. He also climbs past the $10 million mark.

There were plenty of stars in the field, including big names such as Adrian Mateos, Viktor Blom, and Mikita Badziakouski, but they were already gone when it was final table time.

Paul Phua was the man monopolising all the attention as he looked to be heading straight to victory lane where he would collect his second WSOP bracelet.

Sadly for the Triton-co-founder, though, the aggressive play at the table saw him exit in third place for $815,000, leaving Mustafa Kanit as the final hurdle for Rezaei to overcome.

And while stacks were equal as heads-up play began, it didn’t take long for Rezaei to deal with the Italian, marking exactly 12 hours since the first hand was dealt.

Event #4: $50,000 NLH High Roller Turbo Final Table Results

Mark Patrickson

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