The no-limit maintain’em portion of the 2025 Triton Poker Jeju sequence is within the books, which leaves 4 high-stakes pot-limit Omaha occasions and a trio of equally costly quick deck occasions left on the agenda.
The first PLO event of that slate attracted 117 entries at $25,000 every, leading to a prize pool of $2,925,000. In the tip, 64-year-old Norwegian Tom-Aksel Bedell emerged victorious together with his first Triton trophy and a career-best payday of $709,000.
This was the second main PLO title of the yr for Bedell, who additionally took down a €10,300 buy-in occasion within the self-discipline on the PLO Grand Slam Tirana in Albania again in January. Both scores got here with 840 Card Player Player of the Year factors, which is collectively sufficient to position Bedell in twenty fifth place within the 2025 POY race standings offered by Global Poker.
Bedell now has greater than $4.7 million in profession event earnings to his title, together with his three largest paydays all coming in PLO occasions.
The high 19 finishers made the cash on this event, with six-figure payouts for the ultimate seven. Big names that ran deep included Jeremy Ausmus (twelfth), Seth Davies (eleventh), Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (ninth), and Erik Seidel (seventh). The 10-time bracelet winner fell one spot shy of the official six-handed remaining desk.
11-time bracelet winner and five-time Triton champion Phil Ivey scored the primary knockout on the remaining desk, busting Lin Wei in sixth place ($166,000). Ivey was finally the following to fall, although, together with his double-suited pocket kings working into the single-suited pocket aces of Shi Ning Dan. Ivey earned $213,000 for his fifth-place displaying, rising his profession earnings to $48.1 million within the course of.
Eelis Parssinen was the following to fall, together with his high pair and wrap draw dealing with the center pair, flush draw, and open-ended straight draw of Bedell. The river accomplished Bedell’s flush and Parssinen settled for $264,000 because the fourth-place finisher.
Richard Gryko quickly adopted, together with his A
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Bedell was in a position to convert his sizable chip benefit into the title after not too lengthy, making a seven-high straight once more to finest the flopped set of sixes of Shi (2nd – $486,000).
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Tom-Aksel Bedell | $709,000 | 840 |
| 2 | Shi Ning Dan | $486,000 | 700 |
| 3 | Richard Gryko | $320,000 | 560 |
| 4 | Eelis Parssinen | $264,000 | 420 |
| 5 | Phil Ivey | $213,000 | 350 |
| 6 | Lin Wei | $166,000 | 280 |
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