Malaysian Takes Down Triton Poker Jeju $20,000 Event For $1,350,000 Payday

Malaysia’s Tuck Wai Foo outlasted an enormous subject of 348 entries within the $20,000 no-limit maintain’em eight max occasion on the 2025 Triton Jeju competition, $1,350,000 because the champion. Prior to this triumph, Foo had but to document a six-figure match rating, not to mention seven-figure victory.

Foo now has two titles to his identify, having beforehand taken down a aspect occasion finally 12 months’s Malaysia Poker Dream VIII competition for $92,427. That 15,000 Malaysian ringgit occasion (~$3,100 USD) had 136 entrants.

With this win, Foo now has greater than $1.5 million in lifetime earnings to his identify.

He additionally earned 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion, sufficient to maneuver him into 18th place within the 2025 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

The sizable turnout for this occasion constructed a prize pool of $6,960,000, with the highest 55 finishers incomes a share of that haul. The closing 11 all walked away with not less than six-figure payouts, together with bracelet winner Ben Heath (eleventh – $110,000). Other notables who ran deep however fell wanting the ultimate desk included bracelet winner Roman Hrabec (seventeenth), World Poker Tour champion Matas Cimbolas (fifteenth), and bracelet winner Ethan ‘Rampage’ Yau (14th).

The first knockouts on the official closing desk got here by way of a three-way all-in, with Calvin Lee’s A4 squaring off in opposition to the A10 of Jon Ander Vallinas and the 77 of Igor Yaroshevskyy. The board got here down 876107 to provide Yaroshevskyy quads and the double elimination. Lee earned $164,000 for his eighth-place exhibiting, whereas Vallinas secured $227,000.

A MASSIVE spot for Igor Yaroshevskyy on the Triton $20K closing desk in Jeju! All-in with the perfect hand in opposition to two opponents, this hand might set the tone for the remainder of the match! pic.twitter.com/P2HSWeiU8W

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Andrei Kotelnikov (sixth – $305,000) additionally misplaced his previous couple of blinds to Yaroshevskyy, who was in the midst of the pack after his knockout spree. Ren Lin quickly adopted, together with his A-Q unable to carry in opposition to the A-4 of Yaroshevskyy, who had open shoved from the small blind. Lin referred to as and was forward till the board introduced a 4 to show the tables. Lin was awarded $396,000 because the fifth-place finisher, rising his profession earnings to greater than $15.5 million within the course of.

CoinPoker ambassador Mario Mosbock misplaced an enormous all-in with A8 in opposition to the A4 of four-time bracelet winner Michael Gathy early in four-handed play to be left with a single huge blind.

Mosbock then mounted a livid comeback, with a number of double-ups resulting in him overtaking the lead once more forward of the subsequent elimination. As destiny would have it, Gathy was the participant who subsequent hit the rail. He ran J-9 into the A-7 suited of Mosbock. A double-paired board noticed ace excessive play to earn Mosbock the pot. Gathy settled for $501,000 because the fourth-place finisher. The Belgian now has almost $5.6 million in lifetime cashes below his belt.

Mosbock’s resurgence continued because of his OkOk besting the J10 of Yaroshevskyy. Neither participant related with the paired runout and Yaroshevskyy was eradicated in third place ($619,000). The two-time Triton winner from Ukraine now has greater than $11.2 million in profession cashes.

Heads-up play started with Mosbock holding simply over a 2:1 chip lead over Foo. Q-7 beat A-Ok to see that hole narrowed significantly. Then, a profitable bluff for Foo helped propel him into the outright lead. Mosbock battled his method again in entrance, although, forward of the important thing all-in of the match. He shoved with 44 from the button and Foo referred to as off his final 13 huge blinds with Ok2. The board got here down AOkJ67 and Foo made the nut flush to double right into a roughly 6:1 lead.

The closing hand noticed Mosbock get all-in with Ok5 main the 95 of Foo. Mosbock stayed forward by means of the A1010 flop and the three flip, however the 9 on the top despatched the pot and the title to Foo.

Mosbock earned $856,000 because the runner-up. The Austrian poker professional fell simply wanting his third Triton title, however grew his profession earnings to just about $15.9 million.

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