Nearly two years after taking down the 2023 Triton Cyprus $200,000 invitational occasion for a staggering $4.1 million, Azerbaijan’s Ramin Hajiyev as soon as once more discovered himself posing for a winner’s picture with a trident trophy in tow. This time round, Hajiyev overcame a subject of 252 entries within the 2025 Triton Jeju $30,000 no-limit maintain’em eight-max occasion, incomes $1,517,000 because the champion.
These two large Triton victories account for almost half of Hajiyev’s total profession earnings of $11.3 million. He has 124 recorded in-the-money finishes courting again to 2010, with 14 six-figure scores and his two seven-figure triumphs in Triton occasions.
This newest title run got here with 1,428 Card Player Player of the Year factors for Hajiyev, sufficient to maneuver him into twenty third place within the 2025 standings introduced by Global Poker.
The high 39 finishers made the cash on this occasion to earn a share of the $7,560,000 prize pool, with massive names like Alex Foxen (twenty third), Christoph Vogelsang (thirteenth), Artur Martirosian (eleventh), and David Peters (ninth) among the many many stars of the sport who ran deep.
Hajiyev scored the primary knockout on the official ultimate desk, sending two-time bracelet winner Kahle Burns packing with $190,000 for his eighth-place exhibiting. Rising excessive curler star Brandon Wilson misplaced a preflop coin flip with Q-J suited towards the pocket tens of two-time Triton winner Winfred Yu to complete seventh for $259,000. This was already his fifth ultimate desk of 2025, with two titles received. He now sits in fourth place on the POY leaderboard because of this.
Sam Greenwood’s newest Triton money wound up being for $353,500. The Canadian poker professional obtained the final of his stack in with A-10 suited main the Ok-J of Renji Mao, which improved to a king-high straight. Greenwood now has greater than $40.4 million in profession cashes, with $14.6 million of that coming from his 39 in-the-money finishes in Triton tournaments.
Manuel Fritz completed fifth ($467,000) when his Ok-8 was unable to beat out the J-9 suited of Renji, who referred to as his eight massive blind shove from the large blind. Renji paired his jack on the flop and held from there to slender the sector to 4.
Yu’s run led to fourth place when his Ok-8 suited misplaced out to the A-7 of Hajiyev. He cashed for $595,000, bringing his lifetime complete to greater than $9.5 million.
Renji’s final stand noticed him shove from the small blind with A
7
. Hajiyev seemed him up with A
9
from the large blind and held to ship Renji packing with $737,000, which was a brand new excessive rating for the bracelet winner.
Hajiyev held roughly an 8:1 chip lead over Viacheslav Balaev when heads-up play started. The ultimate hand noticed Hajiyev shove from the button with 86. Balaev referred to as off his previous couple of massive blinds with J2 and the board got here down Q428A to present Hajiyev a flush for the win.
Balaev earned $1,008,000 for simply his second money in a Triton occasion. The Russian now has greater than $1.4 million in profession earnings.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Ramin Hajiyev | $1,517,000 | 1428 |
| 2 | Viacheslav Balaev | $1,008,000 | 1190 |
| 3 | Renji Mao | $737,000 | 952 |
| 4 | Winfred Yu | $595,000 | 714 |
| 5 | Manuel Fritz | $467,000 | 595 |
| 6 | Sam Greenwood | $353,500 | 476 |
| 7 | Brandon Wilson | $259,000 | 357 |
| 8 | Kahle Burns | $190,000 | 238 |
Photo credit: Triton Poker.
