Bryn Kenney Extends All-Time Money List Lead With Fifth Triton Title

Bryn Kenney prolonged his lead atop poker’s event earnings leaderboard on Thursday morning.

The American poker professional took down the 2025 Triton Poker Jeju $50,000 no-limit maintain’em bounty turbo occasion for $839,000. The victory brings his profession event haul to just about $76.8 million. It extends his lead on poker’s all-time cash listing, placing greater than $7.3 million between him and Justin Bonomo, who sits second on the listing.

In addition to the cash, Kenney additionally secured his fifth Triton trophy with this win, placing him in a four-way tie for the second on the distinguished high-stakes tour’s all-time title leaderboard.

He joins the elite firm of Phil Ivey, Mikita Badziakouski, and Danny Tang. All 4 gamers are 5 wins behind all-time Triton titles chief Jason Koon, who has 10 victories on the tour.

Just a day earlier, Kenney completed second within the $50,000 seven-max occasion for $1,897,430. He had the lead early within the heads-up match, however in the end hit the rail because the runner-up to Mario Mosbock.

Kenney now has greater than $47.4 million in recorded Triton earnings throughout 19 in-the-money finishes. Unsurprisingly, that accounts for almost all of his total profession haul.

To put that quantity in perspective, Kenney’s Triton winnings alone are sufficient to make him the 14th-highest-earning participant in poker historical past, even when all of his different scores have been excluded. He has cashed for more cash in Triton occasions than Poker Hall of Famer Phil Ivey has gathered all through his event profession ($47,308,301).

Kenney’s insane Triton earnings are thanks largely to the record-setting $20,606,421 payout he secured by way of a heads-up deal within the 2019 Triton Millions Charity Invitational. He has 4 different multi-million-dollar scores on the tour, as properly.

Needless to say, that places Kenney as Triton Poker’s clear cash chief, with Koon’s $29.2 million being the next-highest complete.

This win additionally got here with loads of rankings factors for Kenney. The 918 Card Player Player of the Year factors he earned because the champion, mixed with the 1,275 from his runner-up displaying a day earlier, are sufficient to put him seventh within the 2025 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

This fast-paced affair took a single day to play out inside Landing Casino Jeju. The occasion drew 95 entries and the highest 15 finishers earned a share of the prize pool. there was $4.7 million within the complete prize pool with $1.44 million put aside for bounties.

Kenney entered the ultimate 9 with the second-largest stack, trailing solely Spain’s Jon Ander Vallinas. Several massive names hit the rail within the early going, reminiscent of Chance Kornuth (ninth – $84,700), Stephen Chidwick (eighth – $115,500), and 10-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (seventh – $151,500).

Bracelet winner Leon Sturm (sixth – $192,300) misplaced nearly all of his stack with pocket queens in opposition to the A-Okay of Michael Soyza. The relaxation went to Kenney, who picked up A-Okay suited in opposition to Sturm’s Q-9 to gather his final massive blind.

Brandon Wilson earned $246,000 because the fifth-place finisher when his A-8 bumped into the A-J of Yang Chongxian. This was Wilson’s third final-table end of the collection, and seventh already on the yr. With 3,000 POY factors, Wilson is now the second-ranked participant on the leaderboard.

Soyza was the subsequent to fall, together with his pocket sevens shedding a preflop race in opposition to the A-J of a surging Kenney. The two-time Triton winner hit the rail with $307,000 for his efforts.

Yang’s misplaced handful of blinds went in with 9-8 dealing with 10-2 for Kenney. Neither participant improved and Kenney’s excessive card performed to earn him one other knockout. Yang cashed for $378,000 because the third-place finisher.

That left Kenney heads-up with Vallinas. It took only one hand for Kenney to transform his lead into the title. He raised with OkayQ and referred to as off when Vallinas shoved with 97. Kenney paired his queen and held from there to deliver the fast-paced occasion to an finish. Vallinas earned $577,000 because the runner-up. This was his fourth money of the collection, together with a seventh-place end within the $20,000 buy-in occasion and a ninth-place displaying within the $25,000 WPT Global Slam event.

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