Spanish Player Wins Largest Pot-Limit Omaha Top Prize In Poker Tournament History

Another new document has been set on the 2025 Triton Poker Jeju competition in South Korea. Earlier this sequence the $25,000 eight-max drew the biggest area of any event ever held on the high-stakes-centric tour at 391 entries. That achievement was quickly adopted by a brand new high turnout for a $100,000 buy-in Triton primary occasion, with 285 entries made by the point registration got here to an in depth.

The most up-to-date breakthrough got here within the $100,000 pot-limit Omaha occasion, which drew 91 entries to create a $9,100,000 prize pool. Spain’s Sergio Martinez Gonzalez got here out on high ultimately, incomes $2,340,000 because the champion. This set a brand new poker document as the biggest high prize ever awarded in a PLO event, topping the $2,303,017 secured by 2023 World Series of Poker $50,000 PLO champion Jesse Lonis.

This was the second seven-figure PLO event rating of Martinez Gonzalez’s profession. In 2023 he completed runner-up to Ka Kwan lay in an enormous $25,000 buy-in occasion at that yr’s WSOP that drew 449 entries. That second-place exhibiting got here with a $1.4 million payout. Martinez Gonzalez now has almost $3.8 million in profession earnings to his title.

This win additionally got here with 1,080 Card Player Player of the Year factors, sufficient to maneuver him inside the highest 100 within the 2025 POY standings offered by Global Poker.

The high 15 finishers walked away with a piece of the prize pool, with seven-figure scores for the ultimate three contenders. Notables that ran deep on this occasion embody triple crown winner Michael Watson (14th), ten-time Triton winner Jason Koon (14th), and the ultimate two gamers from the latest $50,000 occasion at this competition, champion Gergo Nagy (twelfth) and runner-up Joni Joukimainen (eleventh).

The Spanish participant was out in entrance when the final seven contenders posed for the final-table picture, with China’s Ding Biao sitting on the next-largest stack.

This sequence’ no-limit maintain’em primary occasion winner, Wenjie Huang, backed up his victory in that document affair with a seventh-place exhibiting ($423,000). That introduced his haul for the competition to greater than $6 million. Mads Amot (sixth – $536,000) quickly joined him on the rail, with the Norwegian’s run ended by Dutch PLO star Tom Vogelsang.

Vogelsang bought the final of his stack in preflop with AA44 dealing with the AA43 of Martinez Gonzalez. A chop appeared extremely doubtless, however the flop got here down 652 to present Martinez Gonzalez a six-high straight. The J flip left Vogelsang drawing useless, making the Okay river a mere formality. Vogelsang was awarded $686,000 for his fifth-place end. This was fourth final-table end of the yr, together with a win in a €5,200 PLO occasion on the PLO Grand Slam Tirana in Albania. He now sits in eleventh place on the POY leaderboard because of this.

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Ding eradicated Zhikang Dai in fourth place ($854,000) to proceed his climb up the chip counts. Lin Wei then bought the final of his stack in with AOkayQ10 dealing with the OkayJJ10 of Martinez Gonzalez. The latter handheld up and Lin headed to the payout desk to gather $1,055,000. This was his second PLO ultimate desk of the week, having additionally positioned sixth within the $25,000 buy-in providing for $166,000.

The heads-up battle for the title was a back-and-forth affair. It started with Ding out in entrance. After loads of twists and turns, Martinez went on a run late that left Ding on fumes. The ultimate hand noticed Ding get all-in with AOkayOkayJ dealing with the Okay554 of Martinez Gonzalez. The 7527Q runout noticed Ding eradicated in second place. The two-time Triton champion cashed for $1,610,000 because the runner-up, the second-largest payday of his profession.

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