Punnat Punsri is to date forward on Thailand’s all-time cash listing that the opposite 99 gamers that comprise the highest 100 are nonetheless a number of million greenback’s in need of his profession earnings with their collective hauls mixed, which clock in at $17.3 million. Punsri has cashed for greater than $23.6 million {dollars} on the match circuit, together with his newest rating being one among his largest.
On Sunday, Mar. 9 Punsri defeated a subject of 93 entries within the 2025 Triton Poker Jeju $125,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion, incomes $2,594,555 because the champion. This was the third profession Triton victory for Punsri, who has accrued greater than $19.9 million of his lifetime haul in Triton tournaments.
This was the second final-table end of the 12 months for Punsri, who positioned eighth in a excessive curler occasion on the Asian Poker Tour Manila Classic final month. This win in Korea got here with 1,080 Card Player Player of the Year factors, sufficient to maneuver Punsri inside attain of the highest 60 within the 2025 POY standings offered by Global Poker.
The prize pool for this occasion swelled to $11,625,000, with the highest 15 finishers making the cash. Plenty of match legends ran deep, together with five-time Triton winner Phil Ivey (fifteenth), four-time Triton champion Fedor Holz (14th), and five-time Triton victor Danny Tang (thirteenth). There had been additionally a number of two-time champions on the tour that ran cashed, together with Daniel Dvoress (eleventh), Michael Soyza (tenth), and Dan Smith (eighth).
Smith was one among two extreme brief stacks to make the unofficial remaining desk of eight. The different was Kiat Lee, who adopted Smith to the rail when his A-8 was unable to greatest the Ok-J of current $150,000 buy-in occasion winner Joao Vieira. Lee earned %40,000 because the seventh-place finisher.
Two-time Triton winner Ben Tollerene misplaced two huge all-ins, each occasions with A-Ok. The second time round was towards the pocket jacks of Vieira, who had him lined. That despatched the American packing in sixth place ($686,000).
The subsequent huge conflict pitted Vieira’s A-Q towards the pocket jacks of Punsri, with the pair holding to ship the Portuguese professional to the payout desk in fifth place. Vieira earned $878,000 for his efforts, bringing his haul for the pageant to greater than $5.5 million.
A 3-way all-in narrowed the sphere from 4 to 2 in a flash. Two-time Triton winner Chris Brewer was in danger with J
10 trailing the Q
J
of Mikita Badziakouski., a five-time Triton champion. Christoph Vogelsang had each of his opponents lined and held one of the best hand with AQ. The German made a pair of aces on the flip and held from there to attain the double knockout, with Brewer incomes $1,093,000 because the fourth-place finisher whereas Badziakouski secured $1,348,000 for his podium exhibiting.
Punsri and Vogelsang hashed out a deal to redistribute the remaining prize cash a bit, locking up $2,504,555 and $2,456,445, respectively whereas leaving the title and $90,000 to play for. Punsri held roughly a 5:4 chip benefit on the time.
The decisive hand of the match noticed Punsri make two pair on the river whereas Vogelsang wound up with a busted flush draw. Vogelsang went for a giant bluff, however it was picked off to see him left on fumes. The very subsequent hand, he was all-in for lower than a giant blind and was eradicated because the runner-up. Vogelsang now has practically $40.5 million in profession cashes to his identify after this newest multi-million-dollar rating, the fifth of his profession.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Punnat Punsri | $2,594,555 | 1080 |
| 2 | Christoph Vogelsang | $2,456,445 | 900 |
| 3 | Mikita Badziakouski | $1,348,000 | 720 |
| 4 | Chris Brewer | $1,093,000 | 540 |
| 5 | Joao Vieira | $878,000 | 450 |
| 6 | Benjamin Tollerene | $686,000 | 360 |
| 7 | Kiat Lee | $540,000 | 270 |
Photo credit: Triton Poker.
