Christoph Vogelsang Surges Back From A Single Big Blind To Win Triton Monte Carlo $100,000 Buy-In

Christoph Vogelsang has cashed for tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on the stay match circuit. Despite loads of deep runs, although, the German poker professional had not closed out a victory in additional than six years. 2,300 days after his victory within the 2017 ARIA Summer High Roller Series, Vogelsang lastly broke by for one more title by taking down the 2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo $100,000 no-limit maintain’em eight-max occasion. He defeated a subject of 120 entries to safe the long-awaited trophy and the highest prize of $2,644,000.

This is the third-largest rating on Voegelsang’s resume, trailing solely the $6,000,000 he earned because the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl champion and the $4,480,001 he was awarded for ending third within the 2014 World Series of Poker Big One For One Drop million-dollar buy-in occasion. The 38-year-old now has greater than $32.3 million in lifetime earnings, good for second on Germany’s all-time cash listing behind Fedor Holz ($41.9 million).

The last day of this occasion started with 47 gamers nonetheless in competition and solely 20 set to make the cash. By the time the ultimate desk was set, it was bracelet winner and 2023 Card Player Player of the Year contender Nacho Barbero within the lead. Vogelsang, who had been all the way down to a single huge blind earlier than the bubble, had managed to spin his stack again up 25 blinds to place himself in the midst of the pack.

Ten-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey was in search of a sixth Triton title, however in the end hit the rail in eighth place ($372,000) when his Ok-Q bumped into the A-Q suited of Punnat Punsri. Ivey now has greater than $40.5 million in lifetime earnings after this newest deep run.

Recent Triton turbo occasion winner Jonathan Jaffe (seventh – $504,000) and 2023 Triton Cyprus $20,000 brief deck champion Daniel Dvoress (sixth – $672,000) had been each knocked out once they bumped into pocket aces.

Vogelsang was the one with the aces in Dvoress’ last hand. He scored one other huge win when his A-9 held in opposition to the Q-J of Ben Heath, who had him barely coated. Vogelsang scored the ultimate blow on the subsequent hand to ship Heath dwelling with $858,000 for his fifth-place displaying.

The last 4 had been now all assured at the very least $1,068,000 for making it this far. That sum in the end went to Punsri, whose Ok-7 suited was unable to beat out the J-8 of Barbero in an all-in confrontation. Punsri now sits in twenty sixth place within the POY standings after this, his twelfth final-table end of the 12 months.

Four-time Triton champion Danny Tang’s run got here to an finish when his AOk failed to carry up in opposition to the A7 of Barbero on a Q10767 runout. Tang was awarded $1,296,000 for his seventeenth final-table end of 2023. With 5,999 POY factors, six titles, and greater than $6.7 million in to-date POY earnings, Tang has moved into tenth place on the POY leaderboard.

Heads-up play started with Barbero within the lead. The last two hashed out a deal that left $500,000 and the title to play for whereas guaranteeing $2,144,000 to Vogelsang and $2,190,000 for Barbero. Vogelsang quickly overtook the lead, however the pair traded the benefit backwards and forwards a bit earlier than the ultimate hand arose. The chips went in with Vogelsang’s Ok10 main Barbero’s Q8. The board ran out Q959Ok to ship Barbero the rail with the almost $2.2 million he had negotiated for.

This was the fifteenth final-table end of the 12 months for Barbero, with three titles received and greater than $9.8 million in POY earnings accrued alongside the best way. With 9,016 factors earned hs now sits in second place within the 2023 standings, trailing solely Bin Weng (10,180 factors).

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:

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