Pedro Padilha has been on fairly a run up to now 12 months and a half. The Brazilian has secured the 4 largest stay poker event paydays of his profession in that span, together with a trio of seven-figure scores. The most up-to-date of these noticed the 39-year-old take down the $50,000 eight-max no-limit maintain’em occasion on the 2026 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju for his first trident trophy.
“It’s the best feeling,” Padilha instructed Triton employees. “It’s an amazing event, an amazing tournament, and I’m so happy.”
Padilha defeated a area of 129 entries on his solution to hoisting the {hardware}. The $1,400,860 prime prize was the second-largest outcome on his résumé, trailing solely the $3,160,000 he earned with a runner-up exhibiting within the World Series of Poker Paradise Triton $100,000 buy-in final December. Last May, he lodged his first rating of over 1,000,000 when he triumphed in a €25,000 excessive curler on the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo cease, incomes simply shy of $1.3 million. He now has greater than $8.8 million in recorded cashes to his title, which is sweet for third on the Brazilian all-time cash checklist. He trails solely Joao Simao ($20.9 million) and Yuri Dzivielevski ($16.2 million) on that checklist.
This victory made Padilha the fourth Brazilian participant in Triton historical past to safe a title on the nosebleed-stakes tour. He joins Simao, Alisson Piekazewicz, and Pedro Garagnani.
This win additionally got here with 1,122 Card Player Player of the Year factors for Padilha. His seven remaining tables in 2025 resulted in a top-50 exhibiting within the remaining POY standings final 12 months. Now, he’s sitting inside putting distance of the highest 300 within the 2026 POY race offered by CoinPoker, with three final-table finishes and this one title run.
A Stacked Field And Final Table
Only the highest 20 finishers earned a share of the $6,449,998 prize pool on this occasion. The bubble burst with the elimination of Ren Lin in twenty first place. He was quickly joined on the rail by the likes of Kayhan Mokri (twentieth), Justin Saliba (seventeenth), Piekazewicz (sixteenth), Ding Biao (thirteenth), and Alejandro Lococo (tenth).
By the time the ultimate desk was set, it was current $25,000 eight-max occasion winner Aliaksei Boika who sat atop the leaderboard. He was trailed intently by two-time bracelet winner Nick Petrangelo, with Padilha in third chip place.
🔱 Final Table time, and it’s a heavyweight lineup. The $50K NLH 8-Handed is right down to its final 9.
$1,548,000 and the Triton trophy for one, and each seat at this desk believes it’s theirs.
Watch the champion get topped stay on all Triton Poker Series channels. pic.twitter.com/8qnDDBlqMB
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) September 11, 2026
Triton champion and three-time bracelet winner Eelis Parssinen bowed out in eighth place ($200,000), working A-7 into the pocket queens of Yang Wang. This was the twelfth final-table end of 2026 for the Finnish crusher, who now sits in fourth place within the POY standings.
Phil Ivey was the subsequent to fall. The five-time Triton champion and 11-time bracelet winner took a stand with pocket nines, solely to complete second-best to the pocket jacks of Petrangelo. The Poker Hall of Famer ticked over $55.9 million in profession earnings with the $271,000 he earned because the seventh-place finisher.
Kiat Lee, only a single day faraway from a win within the $40,000 thriller bounty occasion for his fourth trident trophy, positioned sixth on this occasion. Lee secured $361,000 after dropping a flip with Ok-8 in opposition to the pocket sixes of Boika.
The Final Five
Padilha landed the subsequent knockout blow, together with his A♦8♠ besting the A♣6♣ of Wang (fifth – $461,000). Aren Bezhanyan backed up his fourth-place end in a $25,000 occasion earlier this sequence with a run to the identical spot on this event. The Armenian received the final of his brief stack in with J♣10♣ going through Ok♥4♠ for Boika, who flopped a pair of kings and held from there. Bezhanyan earned $574,000 this time round, bringing his complete haul for the sequence to $991,000.
Boika finally fell in third place, together with his A♦9♠ unable to come back from behind in opposition to the A♣Ok♠ of a surging Padilha. Boika added $697,000 with this podium exhibiting, bringing the Belarusian’s profession haul to almost $10.9 million.
Padilha held roughly a 2:1 chip lead over Petrangelo going into heads-up play. The two contenders quickly hashed out a deal that locked up $1,350,860 for Padilha and $1,201,140 for Petrangelo, leaving the title and $50,000 up for grabs.
The remaining hand quickly arrived, with Padilha’s Q♣8♠ tailing Ok♠4♠ for Petrangelo. The board got here down A♦9♥4♥8♣3♥ and Padilha made a successful pair of eights to wrap up the event. Petrangelo now has practically $44.7 million in recorded scores to his title after this newest deep run.
💥 BOOM! Pedro Padilha is a Triton champion! Brazil, this one’s for you. pic.twitter.com/9Y20qHLJ8l
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) September 11, 2026
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Pedro Padilha | $1,400,860 | 1,122 |
| 2 | Nick Petrangelo | $1,201,140 | 935 |
| 3 | Aliaksei Boika | $697,000 | 748 |
| 4 | Aren Bezhanyan | $574,000 | 561 |
| 5 | Wang Yang | $461,000 | 468 |
| 6 | Kiat Lee | $361,000 | 374 |
| 7 | Phil Ivey | $271,000 | 281 |
| 8 | Eelis Parssinen | $200,000 | 187 |
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