Triton Poker’s largest turnout for a $100,000 most important occasion had beforehand been 216 entries. That report was not solely surpassed on this yr’s Triton Poker Jeju $100,000 no-limit maintain’em most important occasion, it was nicely and actually smashed. A complete of 285 entries had been made by the point registration closed, leading to a staggering $28,500,000 prize pool.
The unimaginable surge in attendance resulted in seven-figure payouts for the highest six, with multi-million-dollar scores for the highest 4 and $5,555,000 for the eventual champion. That determine was finally awarded to China’s Huang Wenjie, who overcame a stacked last desk to safe his first Triton title and his first seven-figure rating.
The 2024 World Series of Poker Online $10,000 heads-up no-limit maintain’em champion now has greater than $6.9 million in profession earnings beneath his belt. He additionally secured 2,280 Card Player Player of the Year factors, sufficient to catapult him into seventh place within the 2025 POY standings introduced by Global Poker regardless of this being his first certified rating of the yr.
The high 47 finishers earned a share of the large prize pool on this occasion, with massive names like Isaac Haxton (twenty sixth), Michael Soyza (twenty first), Alex Foxen (nineteenth), and $25,000 WPT Global Slam occasion winner from this collection Anatoly Filatov (eleventh) all working deep.
Two-time bracelet winner Santhosh Suvarna was out in entrance when the ultimate desk was set, with Huang not too far behind in third chip place. Suvarna scored the primary knockout, successful a race in opposition to the A-J of James Hopkins (ninth – $570,000) with pocket tens. Clemen Deng quickly adopted in eighth place ($695,000). He misplaced the vast majority of his stack when his pocket aces had been cracked by the Okay-10 of back-to-back WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship winner Dan Cates. Not lengthy after that, Deng’s remaining chips had been captured by Huang, who gained with a set of fives.
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Cates, identified to many as ‘Jungleman,’ then discovered pocket aces himself and had them maintain in opposition to the A-Okay suited of Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (seventh – $946,000) to slim the sphere to 6 contenders.
European Poker Tour champion Aliaksei Boika was the subsequent to fall, along with his A-J unable to greatest the Okay-10 suited of two-time bracelet winner Artur Martirosian. The Russian flopped a pair of tens and held from there to finish Boika’s run in sixth place ($1,288,000).
Bracelet winner and Triton champion Sam Greenwood was coolered out of this occasion, along with his pocket jacks working into the pocket kings of Huang. Greenwood earned $1,687,000 because the fifth-place finisher, the fifth-largest profession money for the Canadian poker professional. He now has greater than $42.1 million in recorded scores beneath his belt after this efficiency.
Suvarna was on the backside of the leaderboard throughout four-handed play. He managed one double up, however was quickly all-in once more with 10
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(shoved from the button) trailing the Okay
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of Huang, who referred to as the six blind shove from the massive blind. Suvarna flopped high pair, however the flip introduced a king to place Huang again out in entrance. The river was a clean and Suvarna headed to the payout desk to gather his newest enormous match payday of $2,140,000. The Indian participant now has practically $17.4 million in lifetime cashes.
The subsequent massive hand spelled the top of Martirosian’s match. He limped from the small blind for 600,000 with J10 and Huang raised to 2,000,000 from the massive blind with 55. Martirosian referred to as and the flop got here down 1053. Martirosian checked and Huang guess 2,000,000. Martirosian referred to as and the flip introduced the A. Martirosian checked and Huang guess 6,000,000. Martirosian referred to as and the three accomplished the board. Martirosian checked once more and Huang went for all of it. Martirosian went into the tank after which made the decision for his final 8,000,000 solely to be proven a successful full home. Martirosian was awarded $2,644,000 because the third-place finisher. He now has greater than $27.5 million in profession earnings.
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Huang entered heads-up play with 52,775,000 to Cates’ 18,475,000. The lead was prolonged forward of the ultimate hand, which noticed Cates shove from the button for 14 massive blinds with J9. Huang shortly referred to as with OkayQ and the board got here down QQJJ5 to offer each gamers boats. Cates’ was second-best, although, and he was eradicated because the runner-up. The $3,528,000 payout was a brand new excessive rating for Cates, who grew his lifetime haul to $17.7 million with this run.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Wenjie Huang | $5,555,000 | 2280 |
| 2 | Daniel Cates | $3,528,000 | 1900 |
| 3 | Artur Martirosian | $2,644,000 | 1520 |
| 4 | Santhosh Suvarna | $2,140,000 | 1140 |
| 5 | Sam Greenwood | $1,687,000 | 950 |
| 6 | Aliaksei Boika | $1,288,000 | 760 |
| 7 | Jose Barbero | $946,000 | 570 |
| 8 | Clemen Deng | $695,000 | 380 |
| 9 | James Hopkins | $570,000 | 190 |
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