Kayhan Mokri – Photo Credit: Triton Super High Roller Series
Kayhan Mokri is the most recent large winner on the Triton Super High Roller Series hosted at Sporting Monte-Carlo on Nov. 3. This was the second event of 14 scheduled over the subsequent two weeks in some of the unique enclaves in Europe.
Mokri isn’t any stranger to event poker success with this being his second seven-figure rating (he additionally received a high-roller occasion on the European Poker Tour Barcelona cease earlier this 12 months in September), and the resident of Norway now has 5 event victories general. Mokri has additionally now jumped to thirty sixth place within the Card Player Player of the Year standings.
“Today was my day, it’s a momentum thing. I had the best cards today and that’s how it is,” mentioned Mokri. “I finally won one. Now I can relax a bit more.”
The $30,000 buy-in eight-max no-limit maintain’em occasion drew a proficient area of 144 runners that created a prize pool value $4.32 million. The prime 23 gamers all cashed for at the very least $50,500.
Notables that made a deep run within the occasion and cashed within the cash earlier than the ultimate 9 had been shortly set and included ultimate desk bubble boy Quan Zhou (ninth), Wai Kin Yong (14th), Artur Martirosian (fifteenth), Daniel Dvoress (seventeenth), Juan Pardo (18th), Webster Lim (nineteenth), Dan Smith (twentieth), Fedor Holz (twenty first), and Kristen Foxen (twenty third).
With the typical stack set at 25 large blinds when the ultimate desk started the motion was brisk. Mokri was truly final in chips when the ultimate desk started, however he went on a powerful run to take out seven of his opponents among the many ultimate 9 on the trail to victory.
Mokri received the early pots that he wanted to outlive, after which Dimitar Danchev fell in eighth, and he was shortly adopted by one other Bulgarian participant when Krasimir Neychev was out in seventh.
Marius Kudzmanas hit the rail subsequent in sixth, and fifth-place honors went to the native Monaco resident and up to date Poker Hall of Fame inductee Patrik Antonius. Antonius added $298,000 to his profession totals, giving him $23.8 million lifetime in reside tournaments.
Mokri continued to steamroll the sector when he took out Orpen Kisacikoglu in fourth, and Alex Kulev in third to take a 2:1 benefit into the ultimate match in opposition to Paulius Vaitiekunas. Mokri then received each of the key arms that came about between the ultimate two gamers to convey the event to an finish.
Vaitiekunas limped with 5
4
within the gap, and Mokri checked his choice holding 63 earlier than the flop fell 6
53. Mokri checked, Vaitiekunas guess, and Mokri raised. Vaitiekunas then dedicated the final of his chips, and Mokri referred to as.
The flip and river modified nothing, and Mokri was topped because the champion. It wasn’t all unhealthy for Vaitiekunas with a runner-up payout value $680,000 to take the profession earnings for the Lithuanian above $3.8 million.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY |
| 1 | Kayhan Mokri | $1,005,000 | 1,008 |
| 2 | Paulius Vaitiekunas | $680,000 | 840 |
| 3 | Alex Kulev | $454,000 | 672 |
| 4 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | $371,000 | 504 |
| 5 | Patrik Antonius | $298,000 | 420 |
| 6 | Marius Kudzmanas | $231,000 | 336 |
| 7 | Krasimir Neychev | $171,000 | 252 |
| 8 | Dimitar Danchev | $125,000 | 168 |
The Triton Super High Roller Series in Monte Carlo has solely simply begun, with tournaments working from Nov. 1-14 on the shores of the Mediterranean. Stay tuned to Card Player for recaps all through this marquee event collection that includes the very best poker gamers on the earth.
