The December 2024 WSOP Paradise stop teamed up with the Triton Poker series to bring us two Triton tournaments, where a valuable WSOP gold bracelet awaited the champion in addition to a trophy. One of these tournaments was the Triton Million, where the buy-in was $500,000.
Various celebrities and millionaires were invited to the tournament, and they were allowed to invite one professional to the table with them. In total, the tournament brought in 96 entries and a prizepool worth $48,000,000. There was a $12,070,000 prize waiting for the winner, which was fought for at the final table by names such as Alex Foxen, Daniel Dvoress, Alexei Ponakovs and Ben Heath.
However, none of these players were able to stop the Argentine rapper with the nickname "Papo MC", under which Alejandro Lococo hides. Not even Ben Heath could beat him in the final heads-up. Alejandro is a well-known figure in his country and has more than 2.7 million followers on his instagram.
But how did Alejandro get into such an expensive tournament that is out of his budget? That's what Grego Rossello told us in a new interview for the YouTube channel. As you would expect, and as is customary in the poker world, Alejandro was forced to sell percentages if he wanted to play this tournament.
"What I do when I have to play tournaments that exceed my bankroll management is sell percentages. I have investors. And the path to this tournament came about in a very surprising way. I was at home with my girlfriend and I said to her: I have a chance to play this tournament if I sell 90% of my shares in less than 48 hours...."
So Alejandro had to find investors who would be willing to put their chances of success in his hands, even though this tournament will be played by the best progressive players in the world. So the goal was clear - sell $450,000 worth of shares in less than 48 hours.
"I managed to sell 36% on the first day, which was great, but I was still 64% short. That evening, Adrian Mateos, who is a friend of mine, texts me and says: Have you sold anything yet? And I'm like, no, look, this guy said maybe he'll buy 2%, this guy said maybe he'll buy 1%. I went to sleep, I woke up the next day, I looked at my phone and I had a missed call from Adrian and the message, " ALL SOLD."
"I won't say who it was to be sure, but it's a top player who first said in the evening: I'll buy 5%, I'll confirm tomorrow. Well, the next day he bought everything that was left."
"I don't know if he split it with his friends or what he did. I just sent him a message and said, hey, how are you? Adrian told me you wanted to buy 64%. He just replied brusquely that he did. I didn't know what to say, all I could do was say thank you and tell him that I watched him on TV and that it was crazy to me that this was even happening. The investor replied amiably: Of course, thank you, I really like your energy, I like the way you play. Good luck. Break it down!"
"I promise you that I will do everything in my power to give you that trust back, because you trust me more than I trust myself," Alejandro replied to his investor, and then continued, "Excuse me. Normally, when it's a tournament where the buy-in is, say, $25,000, I pay it myself and then I charge them because I know they'll pay me. I know them all. But here it was half a million dollars. He told me not to worry, and within 15 minutes I had all the money credited to my account."
"This man who trusted me took more than $7 million of my winnings. Not only did the best in the world and people I admire trust my game, but I came out of the tournament a champion and beat the best in the world. The money was redistributed and I am very grateful because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to play in this tournament," concluded Alejandro.
So, as we learned from Alejandro himself, his mystery investor is a professional poker player, and he received more than $7 million from his $12,070,000 winnings. Since Alejandro himself invested only 10 percent of his pocket money in the tournament, he was left with $1,207,000 of the total prize money, and that's before taxes.
Source - Triton, WSOP, Pokernews, Codigopoker.com, Youtube