Punnat Punsri overcame a troublesome area of 190 entries within the 2024 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju $50,000 buy-in seven-max no-limit maintain’em occasion, incomes $2,010,000 and his second title on the high-stakes centric tour.
“I honestly ran so good,” Punsri instructed Triton reporters after popping out on high. “I’ve run good, not just this event, but ever since I’ve played Triton.”
This was the third-largest rating of the Thai poker professional’s profession, together with his six high paydays all coming in Triton occasions. More than $11.7 million of Punsri’s almost $15.2 million in lifetime earnings have come from his 15 cashes at Triton stops over time, together with the $3.1 million he earned because the third-place finisher in a $262,500 buy-in invitational occasion final summer time in London and his win within the $100,000 foremost occasion on the Triton Mediterranean Poker Party in 2022 for $2.6 million.
Punsri now has two titles and 9 final-table finishes in 2024, with 3,069 whole Card Player Player of the Year factors earned alongside the best way. That’s good for the highest spot within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.
A complete of $9,500,000 in prize cash was paid out on this occasion, with the highest 31 finishers making the cash. Among the most important names that ran deep have been bracelet winner Sam Greenwood (twentieth), three-time Triton champion Matthias Eibinger (nineteenth), bracelet winner Dan Smith (14th), World Poker Tour champion Seth Davies (thirteenth), bracelet winner Pieter Aerts (tenth), and European Poker Tour champion Steve O’Dwyer (eighth).
The first participant to be knocked out on the official remaining desk was ten-time bracelet winner and five-time Triton champion Phil Ivey. The residing poker legend received the final of his extraordinarily quick stack in with pocket aces, which have been cracked by the 9-6 of Sergio Aido. He took residence $339,000 for his efforts, rising his lifetime earnings to $41.5 million within the course of.
Punsri then busted two-time Triton champion Michael Soyza – $465,000) to tug away from the pack. Aido did his finest to maintain tempo, selecting up pocket nines towards the pocket fives of Ren Lin (fifth – $611,000) and profitable the preflop all-in confrontation to slim the sphere to 4.
WPT champion and two-time EPT foremost occasion winner Michael Watson misplaced a vital flip with pocket sixes towards A-J fitted to Punsri to hit the rail in fourth place ($773,000). This was already his sixth final-table end of the yr, with one title received. He now sits in twelfth place within the POY rankings consequently.
Bracelet winner Brian Kim was the clear quick stack when three-handed motion started. He quickly discovered himself all-in with Okay-6 trailing the pocket aces of a surging Punsri. Kim was unable to tug off the upset within the hand and was knocked out in third place ($954,000).
Punsri, then again, was in a position to crack the aces of Aido. The chips went in with Punsri holding 7
4. The board ran out 5
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369 to provide Punsri a straight and the title. Aido walked away with $1,353,000, the second-largest rating of his profession. The Spanish poker professional had completed because the runner-up within the $25,000 ‘GG Million$’ occasion only a day earlier for one more seven-figure payday. With 2,590 whole POY factors from these two scores, he’s now sitting in third place on the POY leaderboard.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Punnat Punsri | $2,010,000 | 1428 |
| 2 | Sergio Aido | $1,353,000 | 1190 |
| 3 | Brian Kim | $954,000 | 952 |
| 4 | Michael Watson | $773,000 | 714 |
| 5 | Ren Lin | $611,000 | 595 |
| 6 | Michael Soyza | $465,000 | 476 |
| 7 | Phil Ivey | $339,000 | 357 |
Photo credit: Triton Poker / Joe Giron.
