The Triton Super High Roller Series Monte-Carlo is running in Monaco from November 1 to November 14, bringing a total of 14 tournaments to the city. They are marked traditionally from 1 to 16, with the numbers 4 and 14 omitted, as the organisers believe these numbers bring bad luck.
Once again, we'll see tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $25,000 to $200,000. The most expensive tournament will be the Invitational tournament, which will be made up of businessmen and their guests. Also at this stop, we will be treated to both the NLH Main Event and the PLO Main Event. The NLH format will have a buy-in of $125,000 and the PLO format will have a buy-in of $100,000.
We know the first champion
The very first tournament was the NLH WPT Global Ultimate Slam with a buy-in of $25,000+1,500 buy-in fee. This tournament brought 170 entries and a prizepool of $4,250,000. The ITM was open to 27 players, with the smallest prize worth $43,000 and $941,000 awaiting the winner.
Greek player Alex Theologis entered the final table as the chipleader with a stack of 9,325,000. Right behind him, in second place, was this year's WSOP Main Event final table participant, Brian Kim, with a stack of 8,075,000. At the other end of the table was Ranno Sootla of Estonia.
The $95,000 9th place prize eventually went to Elton Tsang, followed by Ranno Sootla ($115,000). Seventh place went to Aleksejs Ponakovs, sixth place went to Dominykas Mikolaitis, and fifth place went to German player Tom Fuchs, who has played Triton several times before, but only now made it to the ITM for the first time.
Just before the final heads-up, Roberto Perez and Alex Theologis finished in 4th and 3rd place respectively. The heads-up match pitted Brian Kim against Italian player Enrico Camosci, who was making his Triton debut. In heads-up play, the players shuffled their chips from side to side, but in the end the winner was American Brian Kim, who won his first Triton title with a prize of $941,000. Enrico Camosci took home $634,000 for his debut appearance.
| Place | Name | Country | Prize |
| 1. | Brian Kim | USA | 941.000$ |
| 2. | Enrico Camosci | Italy | 634.000$ |
| 3. | Alex Theologis | Greece | 436.000$ |
| 4. | Roberto Perez | Spain | 356.000$ |
| 5. | Tom Fuchs | Germany | 284.000$ |
| 6. | Dominykas Mikolaitis | Lithuania | 218.000$ |
| 7. | Aleksejs Ponakovs | Latvia | 159.000$ |
| 8. | Ranno Sootla | Estonia | 115.000$ |
| 9. | Elton Tsang | Hong Kong | 95.000$ |
Today we will meet the second champion
Where one Triton tournament ends, another begins, and so it was yesterday. That's how tournament number 2 got underway, which is the NLH 8-Handed with a buy-in of $30,000+1,800 buy-in fee. It brought 144 entries and a prizepool of $4,320,000. Cash prizes await 23 players here, with a min-cash of $50,500. That amount went to Kristen Foxen (23rd), Lun Loon (22nd) and Fedor Holz (21st).
The $1,005,000 is waiting for the winner, and 20 players will be battling it out for that amount today. They are led by Chinese player Zhewen Hu with a stack of 2,835,000. He is followed by Alex Kulev (2,770,000) and Samuel Mullur (2,410,000) rounds out the top three. Other names like Lucas Greenwood, Patrik Antonius, Kayhan Mokri, Dan Smith and Daniel Dvoress are also among the advancers.
The finale of the second tournament of the Triton Monte-Carlo series kicks off at 1:00pm on blinds of 30k/60k/60k and will run players through 30-minute levels. You can also look forward to the livestream which will start at 2:00pm.
Source - Triton Poker, pokerphotoarchive.com
