The 2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo incorporates a considerably completely different organizational strategy than a lot of the tour’s earlier stops, with the vast majority of the best buy-in tournaments frontloaded as a substitute of being positioned towards the tip of the schedule. The $200,000 buy-in invitational occasion, the $125,000 buy-in predominant occasion, and the $106,000 buy-in have been three of the primary 5 occasions to kick off, which resulted in just a few different high-stakes tournaments dropping a little bit of the highlight that they might usually command.
Here is a glance again at two early occasions that wrapped up whereas these marquee tournaments have been going down, in addition to two further occasions which have completed for the reason that conclusion of the collection’ predominant occasion.
2023 Triton Monte Carlo $52,000 NLH Bounty
The $52,000 buy-in no-limit bounty occasion attracted 57 entries, making a prize pool of $1,710,000 that was cut up among the many high 9 finishers.
World Poker Tour champion Jonathan Jaffe, only a month faraway from a win within the $50,000 buy-in finale on the Poker Masters, got here away together with his first Triton title and the highest prize of $501,000.
Jaffe additionally secured an extra $180,000 with eight knockouts and his personal bounty earned because the champion. He locked up the win in dramatic style, making a hero name towards bracelet winner Brian Kim to carry the occasion to its conclusion.
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This was Kim’s thirteenth final-table end of the yr, with 4,656 Card Player Player of the Year factors and greater than $3.2 million in POY earnings accrued throughout these scores. Kim now sits in seventeenth place within the 2023 POY standings introduced by Global Poker because of this.
Jaffe elevated his profession earnings to greater than $10.8 million with this victory.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Jonathan Jaffe | $501,000 | 510 |
| 2 | Brian Kim | $359,000 | 425 |
| 3 | Leonard Maue | $233,000 | 340 |
| 4 | Viacheslav Buldygin | $176,000 | 255 |
| 5 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $136,000 | 213 |
| 6 | Michael Soyza | $106,000 | 170 |
| 7 | Ferdinand Putra | $84,000 | 128 |
| 8 | Lucas Greenwood | $65,000 | 85 |
| 9 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | $50,000 | 43 |
2023 Triton Monte Carlo $26,000 NLH Eight-Max
Like the occasion received by Jaffe, this $26,000 buy-in eight-max event was performed out in a single day, by design.
With 57 entries, there was $1,425,000 in prize cash up for grabs. Again, the highest 9 finishers earned a share of that pool, with the most important chunk finally going to Steve O’Dwyer. This was his second profession victory on the tour.
“Winning is nice,” O’Dwyer advised Triton reporters. “I’ve been waiting to get this second Triton title for a while.”
The American-born poker professional primarily based out of Ireland now has greater than $40 million in profession earnings due to the $416,000 he took dwelling on this occasion. He additionally cashed within the $106,000 buy-in occasion for $156,000 and completed fourth within the $42,400 thriller bounty for an additional $272,000 at this collection. With two titles, 13 last tables, and practically $5.5 million in to-date POY earnings, O’Dwyer is now simply exterior the highest 20 within the 2023 POY standings.
Other high POY contenders who made the ultimate desk included 14th-ranked Michael Watson (third – $195,00) and Twenty seventh-ranked Punnat Punsri (seventh – $70,000). Punsri adopted this deep run with a fourth-place end within the $106,000 buy-in just some days later for $1,068,000.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Steve O’Dwyer | $416,000 | 420 |
| 2 | Dimitar Danchev | $299,000 | 350 |
| 3 | Michael Watson | $195,000 | 280 |
| 4 | Henrik Hecklen | $147,000 | 210 |
| 5 | Michael Soyza | $114,000 | 175 |
| 6 | Fedor Holz | $89,000 | 140 |
| 7 | Punnat Punsri | $70,000 | 105 |
| 8 | Lucas Greenwood | $54,000 | 70 |
2023 Triton Monte Carlo $31,800 NLH Seven-Max
The desk measurement decreased, however the buy-in and discipline grew for the $31,800 buy-in seven-max occasion. A complete of 145 entries resulted in a $4,350,000 prize pool, with 23 gamers cashing. Two-time bracelet winner Ognyan Dimov emerged victorious in the long run, incomes a career-best payday of $1,010,000 for the win.
This was not solely the primary Triton win for the 2015 European Poker Tour Deauville champion, but additionally the Bulgarian’s very first Triton money.
“It’s my first time, but I hope it’s not the last,” he stated after the win.
Dimov now has greater than $5.7 million in profession event earnings. Lucas Greenwood, who completed fourth for $374,000, was at his third last desk of the pageant, having positioned eighth in each the $52,000 bounty and the $26,000 eight-max.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Ognyan Dimov | $1,010,000 | 1008 |
| 2 | Juan Dominguez | $685,000 | 840 |
| 3 | Ole Schemion | $457,000 | 672 |
| 4 | Lucas Greenwood | $374,000 | 504 |
| 5 | Travis Endersby | $300,100 | 420 |
| 6 | Janessa Kan | $232,700 | 336 |
| 7 | Joao Vieira | $172,000 | 252 |
2023 Triton Monte Carlo $26,000 NLH Eight-Max
Just a handful of days after inserting second within the $200,000 invitational for a career-best $2,690,000 payday, Mario Mosbock recorded his second-largest rating ever by taking down the $42,400 thriller bounty occasion. The Austrian bested a 162-entry discipline to earn $718,000.
He now has greater than $4.4 million in recorded earnigns, with greater than $3.4 million of that being secured previously week.
Michael Soyza recorded his third final-table exhibiting of the pageant, inserting third for $333,000. This was his seventh last desk of the yr, with one win. The Maylasian poker professional bow has practically $4.8 million in to-date POY earnings after this newest win, together with his 3,512 POY factors good for fiftieth place on the leaderboard.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Mario Mosbock | $718,000 | 1092 |
| 2 | Imad Derwiche | $484,000 | 910 |
| 3 | Michael Soyza | $333,000 | 728 |
| 4 | Steve O’Dwyer | $272,000 | 546 |
| 5 | Axel Hallay | $216,500 | 455 |
| 6 | Viacheslav Buldygin | $166,300 | 364 |
| 7 | Sammy Bolung | $121,000 | 273 |
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