With so many viable candidates for victory (none of the other six are slouches either) it perhaps came down to the controllers of poker karma to point to Kenney as the champion. The HKD $1 million Main Event at Triton Montenegro booked all of those superstars for its showdown today, and they duly hogged most of the headlines as a HKD 70.5 million ($8.98 million) prize pool was carved between them and six others. No other trio of players are so commonly referred to as “beasts” (a compliment in this context) and no other trio are as likely to find themselves battling still at the end of a Super High Roller event. Within just 12 months the partypoker LIVE tour has grown into the world’s largest ever poker tour and is guaranteeing over $70,000,000 in the 2018/2019 season.Ī Triton Series final table featuring Jason Koon, Mikita Badziakouski and Bryn Kenney is truly the moment that three immovable objects meet three irresistible forces and still none can be sure of success. Partypoker LIVE was created in January 2017 as a global poker tour, with the aim of bringing large field, high guarantee tournaments to players all over the world. 12Bet became operational in 2007, quickly becoming one of the most popular online betting options throughout Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Photography by Joe Giron/ ABOUT OUR SPONSORSġ2BET is an online betting company specializing in sports betting and casino products. That starts at noon, and they’ll play all the way to a final table. The chart below shows name, country, count and the seat draw for day two. Timofey Kuznetsov: Telling some short deck truths Dwan, by contrast, needed a late triple to finish with his 202,000. Of the established stars, Timofey “Trueteller” Kuznetsov had the most successful time of it. They find themselves in the chip-counts below. Sam Greenwood, Isaac Haxton, Mike Watson and the Triton Ambassadors Tom Dwan and Jason Koon also reached for a bag tonight. It sat beside his ever growing stack all day, and he’ll come back tomorrow as No 1 in the leader board too. If his chip count wasn’t enough to demonstrate his enthusiasm, Sun was also the first player to register for the tournament, booking him ticket No 1. The man from China, with no recorded cashes on the western poker databases, bagged 1.35 million chips, which was a good deal more than everyone else in the room. You could say he had put all of his better known opponents in the shade. Tournament room fills for short deck main eventįulin Sun was the man out front. The poker room was as busy at it has been all week, and 38 players were still there at the end. It will only grow larger tomorrow as registration is open for another two hours. There was time for six levels and 69 entries (46 uniques 23 re-entries), meaning the prize pool is already at HKD 65 million ($8.25 million). They had only a couple of days and they wanted to play big, so the HKD 1 million event was brought forward and got under way at 3pm. But over his shoulder, the short deck version was just getting started, and it will certainly be even bigger.Ī last-minute change of schedule was necessary to accommodate the arrival to Montenegro of a charter plane carrying a valuable cargo short deck poker aficionados. Tonight in Montenegro, inside the poker room of the Maestral Resort, Bryn Kenney completed the job on the full deck main event, winning $2.7 million and his second trophy of the week. They’ll play the final table tomorrow, at the same time as the first Pot-Limit Omaha event gets started on the Triton Series.Īs one main event finishes, another begins on the Triton Series. Players celebrated news of the enormous prize pool with a visit to an exclusive buffet - replete with goldfish and bubbling cauldrons of red liquid (not for consumption) - before settling back to play into the money tonight. The smallest payout is HKD 2.3 million ($293,000). POSīarring something miraculous in the smaller buy-in events next week, this will be the single biggest prize-pool of the 11-event series and will determine yet another major winner on the richest and most prestigious tournament series in the world.Įleven players will be paid, with a “min-cash” redefining that term. It built a prize pool of HKD 92.12 million ($11.74 million), from which the top man will earn that staggering payout. Registration closed at around 2.30pm today on the Triton Series Montenegro short deck main event, with 47 players contributing 98 HKD 1 million ($127,000) entries. The headline news on a fine May afternoon on the Adriatic Coast is that deep inside the Maestral Resort and Casino, Budva, Montenegro, a poker player will tomorrow win HKD 26.3 million ($3.35 million).
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