The huge 2025 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju sequence is now in its ultimate levels, with simply two quick deck tournaments left to play. Nearly $146 million in prize cash has been awarded throughout the 16 accomplished occasions held to date at Landing Casino Jeju in South Korea.
The most up-to-date event was the primary of the closing trio of quick deck occasions, and it featured a buy-in of $30,000. A complete of 56 entries had been made by the point registration got here to an in depth, leading to a prize pool of $1,680,000 that was cut up up amongst the highest 9 finishers.
The largest payout was awarded to Ukraine’s Artem Kobylynskyi, who defeated a tricky ultimate desk to safe his first Triton title and the $492,000 in prize cash that got here with it.
This was the second-largest rating but for Kobylynskyi, trailing solely the $651,977 he earned because the runner-up within the 2018 European Poker Tour Prague fundamental occasion. He now has greater than $1.3 million in recorded earnings.
This win additionally got here with 420 Card Player Player of the Year factors. It was Kobylynskyi’s first POY-qualified rating of 2025.
Triple crown winner Michael Watson was the chief when the ultimate desk of seven was set, with Kobylynskyi sitting on the next-largest stack and ten-time Triton champion Jason Koon on the backside of the chip counts.
Triton co-founder Paul Phua (seventh – $82,000) was the primary to fall, along with his A-Ok shedding a race in opposition to the pocket queens of two-time Triton champion Daniel Dvoress. Another two-time Triton winner in Stephen Chidwick was finally knocked out in sixth place ($104,000). The British poker professional’s A-Q was unable to return from behind in opposition to the A-Ok suited of Watson and he headed to the rail along with his newest huge event payday. He now has greater than $65 million in recorded earnings, which locations him third on poker’s all-time cash checklist.
Koon, who sits in sixth-place on that prestigious leaderboard with $59.9 million, added $134,000 to his tally with a fifth-place displaying on this occasion. The all-time Triton titles chief bought the final of his stack in after the flop with prime pair prime kicker in opposition to the identical pair with a decrease facet card for Dvoress. The river gave Dvoress two pair, ending Koon’s newest deep run.
Lun Loon bought his ultimate chips in with a double gutshot going through the highest pair of Kobylysnkyi and was unable to hit. Loon earned $173,000 because the fourth-place finisher. Kobylysnkyi’s rise continued when his A-J held in opposition to the A-10 suited of Dvoress in a preflop all-in confrontation. A flopped jack prolonged the benefit for the Ukrainian, and he held from there to ship Dvoress packing in third ($229,000).
Heads-up play started with Watson out in entrance, with 72 antes to the 63 of Kobylynskyi. The lead quickly modified palms, although, and Kobylynskyi was in a position to broaden his benefit forward of the ultimate hand of the event. Watson raised with A
8
then four-bet jammed over Kobylynskyi’s three-bet. Kobylynskyi referred to as with A
Ok
and held by way of a J97QQ runout to carry the occasion to an in depth. Watson cashed for $353,000 because the runner-up. The four-time Triton champion now has practically $32.4 million in lifetime earnings after this newest rating.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Artem Kobylynskyi | $492,000 | 420 |
| 2 | Michael Watson | $353,000 | 350 |
| 3 | Daniel Dvoress | $229,000 | 280 |
| 4 | Lun Loon | $173,000 | 210 |
| 5 | Jason Koon | $134,000 | 175 |
| 6 | Stephen Chidwick | $104,000 | 140 |
| 7 | Paul Phua | $82,000 | 105 |
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