Khoa Anh Ngo burst onto the stay event scene in 2022, and shortly discovered success in mid-stakes occasions round Asia. He captured two titles on the fledgling Triton One tour, together with successful a $10,000 occasion this spring for a personal-best payday of $612,000.
The Vietnamese participant started to attempt his hand within the flagship Triton Super High Roller Series’ choices in late 2025, and roughly a 12 months later made a career-changing breakthrough. Ngo outlasted a area of 210 entries within the 2026 Triton Poker Jeju II Titi Poker $25,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion to earn his first trident trophy and the highest prize of $1,090,000.
“Winning Triton ONE two times gave me a lot of confidence, so I can go ahead and try the Triton Super High Roller,” Ngo advised Triton reporters after closing out the title. “Today is the hardest final table I’ve ever played. Playing against top players in the world is never easy, never comfortable. But I tried my best today, and I think I ran so well.”
This first seven-figure rating for Ngo noticed the 34-year-old enhance his lifetime earnings to almost $3.8 million. He additionally secured 1,260 Card Player Player of the Year factors with the win, sufficient to catapult him into nineteenth place within the 2026 POY standings introduced by CoinPoker. This was his third title and ninth final-table end of the 12 months, with these deep runs alone accounting for over $2.4 million of his general earnings.
Ngo Seizes The Lead Early On Day 3
Ngo was one of many 34 finishers who earned a share of the $5,250,000 prize pool on this huge occasion. Wang Jun was eradicated on the direct bubble, sparking a wave of knockouts that included the likes of Phil Ivey (thirty fourth), occasion no. 2 champion Klemens Roiter (thirty third), Matthew Wantman (thirty second), Aliaksandr Shylko(twenty fifth), Daniel Rezaei (twenty third), Nick Petrangelo (18th), Ben Tollerene (seventeenth), Victor Chong (twelfth), Laszlo Bujtas (eleventh), and Thomas Boivin (ninth).
David Coleman
The third and ultimate day started with simply six gamers remaining, with American high-stakes common David Coleman within the lead. Shortly after motion resumed, Ngo and Coleman clashed in an enormous pot that dramatically altered the dynamics on the ultimate desk. Coleman opened for a 600,000 min-raise underneath the gun with Ok♦J♦ and Ngo three-bet to 1,600,000 from the button with A♠A♣. Coleman jammed and Ngo snap-called for six,300,000. Ngo held by way of a 8♠6♣3♦Ok♠10♣ runout and doubled into the chip lead.
The UK’s Joe Hindry got here into the day because the shortest stack and was in the end knocked out in sixth place ($250,000) when his Ok♦9♠ failed to come back from behind in opposition to the dominating Ok♥Q♠ of Anatoly Filatov.
Coleman quickly adopted Hindry to the rail, together with his Ok♠Q♣ operating into the A♠Ok♣ of Aren Bezhanyan. Neither participant related with a jack-high runout, and Coleman settled for $330,000 because the fifth-place finisher. The bracelet winner from New Jersey now has greater than $20.1 million in profession cashes and has climbed inside the highest 25 within the POY race with 12 ultimate tables to date in 2026.
Four To Two
Bezhanyan overtook the lead for a bit, however in the end plummeted again down the standings when his A♣Ok♦ misplaced an enormous all-in in opposition to the A♦Ok♠ of Isaac Haxton, with 4 spades hitting the board to offer the high-stakes legend a flush and the double-up. Bezhanyan quickly doubled his stack to get off the mat, and was effectively positioned to take action once more with Q♥Q♣ in opposition to J♠9♠ for Ngo. However, the deck had different concepts, because the 9♥8♠7♠4♠8♦ runout noticed one other spade flush formally finish Bezhanyan’s event in fourth place ($417,000). The Triton champion from Armenia now has over $4.8 million in lifetime earnings.
Aren Bezhanyan lastly finds queens four-handed.
Minutes later, he’s asking himself the way it all went improper. Ngo makes him pay the onerous means. pic.twitter.com/sZN2lQFjDI
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) September 8, 2026
Haxton went on to complete third, making his ultimate stand with A♦5♦. He three-bet from the small blind over a button elevate from Ngo, who held A♠7♥. Ngo shoved and Haxton known as all-in for 13 large blinds whole. The 9♣7♣4♣Q♣9♥ board gave Ngo nines and sevens for the win, sending Haxton packing in third place ($515,000). The rating elevated his general haul to $68.3 million, which is sweet for seventh place on poker’s all-time cash listing.
This was the 74th money in a Triton occasion for Haxton, who has gathered almost $24.2 million on this tour alone.
A Brief Final Battle
Heads-up play lasted simply eight palms. Ngo started with roughly a 5:4 chip benefit, which shortly expanded.
On the ultimate deal of the event, he limped from the button with 8♣5♠ and Filatov checked his choice with Q♣8♠. The 8♦7♥2♥ flop gave each gamers high pair. Filatov checked and Ngo wager 2,000,000 into the pot of two,400,000. Filatov check-shoved for 12,700,000 whole. Ngo shortly known as and was trailing, however the 5♣ flip gave him two pair and the lead within the hand. The 6♠ on the tip modified nothing, and Filatov was eradicated in second place ($733,000).
The Triton champion from Russia now has almost $11.2 million in profession earnings after this newest sturdy exhibiting.
🏆 WHEN IT’S YOUR TIME, IT’S YOUR TIME.
Khoa Anh Ngo captures his first Triton Super High Roller Series trophy. This one’s ceaselessly. pic.twitter.com/fFgjo8vOLY
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) September 8, 2026
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Khoa Anh Ngo | $1,090,000 | 1,260 |
| 2 | Anatoly Filatov | $733,000 | 1,050 |
| 3 | Isaac Haxton | $515,000 | 840 |
| 4 | Aren Bezhanyan | $417,000 | 630 |
| 5 | David Coleman | $330,000 | 525 |
| 6 | Joe Hindry | $250,000 | 420 |
| 7 | Chi-Jen Chu | $184,000 | 315 |
| 8 | Batmunkh Unubukh | $134,000 | 210 |
| 9 | Thomas Boivin | $111,000 | 105 |
Photo credit: Triton Poker.
