Phil Ivey is now tied for the second-most titles earned on two of probably the most prestigious poker excursions on the planet. The 46-year-old Poker Hall of Fame member was already in a three-way tie for probably the most World Series of Poker wins with 10 bracelets. On Sunday, Aug. 6 he took down the 2023 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London $60,000 no-limit maintain’em turbo occasion to safe his fourth title on that high-stakes-centric tour, getting into right into a tie with Mikita Badziakouski for the second-highest whole of Triton trophies at 4.
Ivey defeated a area of 61 entries within the fast-paced affair, incomes $1,007,000 for the win. This was his eleventh profession seven-figure rating. He now has $39.9 million in lifetime earnings, good for twelfth place on poker’s all-time cash listing.
This was Ivey’s first title and fifth final-table end of the 12 months. He was awarded 612 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. With 2,728 whole factors and greater than $2.1 million in to-date POY earnings, Ivey is now ranked 54th within the 2023 POY race offered by Global Poker.
The strong turnout for this occasion created a prize pool of greater than $3.6 million that was finally cut up up among the many high 11 finishers. Plenty of massive names ran deep, together with 2022 Triton Madrid fundamental occasion winner Henrik Hecklen (eleventh), 2023 Triton Cyprus $25,000 buy-in champion Santosh Suvarna (tenth), bracelet winner Sam Greenwood (ninth), three-time Triton champion Wai Kin Yong (eighth), 2019 Triton London quick deck occasion winner Tan Xuan (seventh), and 2023 Triton Cyprus $30,000 thriller bounty champion Biao Ding (sixth).
Two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs completed fifth when his A-3 suited was unable to outrun the Q-8 suited of fellow two-time WSOP champion Nick Petrangelo. Ponakovs has now cashed in 4 occasions at this pageant, accumulating over $4 million in earnings alongside the way in which. The largest chunk of that got here when he completed fourth within the $250,000 buy-in Luxon Invitational only a day earlier than making this closing desk.
Rodrigo Selouan backed up his runner-up end within the $60,000 seven-max occasion earlier this sequence with a fourth-place exhibiting on this turbo occasion on the identical worth level. The Brazilian’s A-4 suited was unable to come back from behind towards the pocket jacks of Ivey and he was despatched to the rail with $360,000.
Ivey continued to surge, along with his A-8 besting the A-Q suited of Petrangelo. Ivey made a pair of eights on the flop to take the lead and held from there to remove Petrangelo in third place ($468,900). The rating elevated his profession earnings to greater than $31.7 million.
Ivey took greater than a 3:1 chip lead into heads-up play with Cary Katz. The high-stakes event crusher and founding father of PokerGO acquired all-in with A-Ok main the Q-7 of Ivey, however a pair of queens on the flop gave the latter journeys. Katz discovered no additional assist and was knocked out in second place, incomes $715,500 for his efforts. Katz now has $39,659,114 in lifetime cashes, placing him only one spot behind Ivey on the all-time cash listing at thirteenth place.
Here is a take a look at the payouts awarded a the ultimate desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Phil Ivey | $1,007,000 | 612 |
| 2 | Cary Katz | $715,500 | 510 |
| 3 | Nick Petrangelo | $468,900 | 408 |
| 4 | Rodrigo Selouan | $360,000 | 306 |
| 5 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $285,500 | 255 |
| 6 | Biao Ding | $223,200 | 204 |
| 7 | Xuan Tan | $175,700 | 153 |
| 8 | Wai Kin Yong | $137,200 | 102 |
| 9 | Sam Greenwood | $104,000 | 51 |
Photo credit: Triton Poker / Joe Giron.
