Wai Kin Yong scoops the Triton £100k Main Event

The £100k buy-in Triton Poker Main Event ended in a Yong-Phua 1-2 this week, but it was Wai Kin Yong, rather than his Triton co-founder father Richard, who lifted the title and £2,591,69.

Wai Kin Yong

The full deck format Main Event saw 130 entries, including 52 re-entries at London’s Park Lane Hotel, producing a prize pool of £12.2million. The min. cash would be £192,000, and the top 17 were destined to be in the money.

The planned two days ran into three due to the massive turnout, and by the time they had reached the final table of nine, the likes of Justin Bonomo and Isaac Haxton were already out. Jungleman Dan Cates, however, was on fire…

His final table appearance would be short-lived, however, as both he and many people’s favorite, England’s Stephen Chidwick, ran into Michael Soyza…

Soyza would eventually fall in 4th spot, the first player to take over £1million from the Main Event prize fund, leaving England’s Ben Heath to tackle the Malaysian duo of Yong junior and Macau high stakes legend Paul Phua.

Ben Heath

What a time to pick up kings was the first thought when Heath found himself all-in against Phua’s ace-king. There was the distinct possibility that Heath might add a Triton title to his summer WSOP bracelet, but then this happened…

Quite possibly the flop of the series and Heath had to settle for 3rd place and £1.35million, leaving Phua to discuss a deal with his young rival. That produced a chop slightly in favor of the elder statesman of Asian poker, but there was £150k and the trophy still to play for.
The title was decided with a typically Triton nerve-wracking final hand, Phua well ahead and only the river outs to dodge for a double-up…

“It feels really great, especially that I could go heads up with Paul,” said Wai Kin Yong as he lifted the biggest win of his career, and father Richard was quick to congratulate his ‘beloved son’…

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