A complete of 108 entries have been made within the 2024 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju $50,000 bounty turbo occasion. A complete of $15,000 from every buy-in was put aside for the bounties, with $60,000 being awarded for every particular person knockout out after simply 25 p.c of the sphere remained. There was additionally $3,780,000 in the principle prize pool that was paid out among the many high 17 finishers.
When the mud settled on this single-day, fast-paced affair, it was Dan Smith who had amassed the entire chips and 5 bounty payouts (together with his personal). That means he took house $300,000 in bounties to go together with $951,000 he secured because the champion of the occasion.
This was the second Triton title on Smith’sresume. The 35-year-old American poker professional additionally took down the $200,000 invitational occasion in Monte Carlo final fall for almost $3.9 million. He now has virtually $19.5 million in complete Triton earnings, which accounts for a large chunk of his complete profession cashes of $54,242,731.
With this win, Smith surpassed Mikita Badziakouski to maneuver into fifth place on poker’s all-time cash listing. The World Series of Poker bracelet winner and World Poker Tour champion is one in every of simply seven gamers to surpass $50 million in complete earnings.
This was Smith’s first title and second final-table end of the yr, having additionally positioned seventh in a $25,000 buy-in occasion earlier at this similar competition. With 1,419 complete Card Player Player of the Year secured throughout these two scores, Smith has climbed into thirty second place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.
Smith was hardly the one participant to make strikes close to the highest of the POY leaderboard on account of this occasion. Punnat Punsri, someday faraway from his win within the $50,000 seven-max occasion, positioned sixth for $220,000. He has already made ten closing tables and gained two titles this yr, with greater than $2.6 million in to-date POY earnings. The Thai poker professional is pacing the POY area with 3,409 complete factors.
Seth Davies climbed to twentieth within the POY ranks because of his third-place exhibiting on this occasion, whereas Sirzat Hissou overtook the Eleventh-place spot after inserting fifth. David Coleman completed runner-up to Smith, incomes $642,900 and 850 factors for his efforts. This was his seventh final-table end of the yr, with three titles gained alongside the way in which. He is the one participant exterior of Punsri to surpass 3,000 POY factors up to now this yr. As a consequence, he’s at present sitting in second place on the leaderboard.
Tom Dwan, who was lately introduced as an ACR Poker ambassador, and has been within the information of late because of a dispute a few backing debt with Petter Jetten, completed fourth for $346,000. He misplaced a key pot to Smith down the stretch in a flush-over-flush scenario.
“Me and Tom were one and two in chips, in small and big blind and we both had flushes. And unless you’re super deep, there’s no getting away from it,” Smith instructed Triton reporters after closing out the title. Dwan was completed off by Coleman not lengthy after that.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Dan Smith | $951,000 | 1020 |
| 2 | David Coleman | $642,900 | 850 |
| 3 | Seth Davies | $418,000 | 680 |
| 4 | Tom Dwan | $346,000 | 510 |
| 5 | Sirzat Hissou | $279,000 | 425 |
| 6 | Punnat Punsri | $220,000 | 340 |
| 7 | Webster Lim | $168,000 | 255 |
| 8 | Tom Heung | $126,000 | 170 |
| 9 | Damir Zhugralin | $94,500 | 85 |
Photo credit: Triton Poker / Joe Giron.
