$125k Main Event
The Triton Main Event kicked off on Thursday's first day. Registration for the tournament was open until the start of Day 2 when we learned the final number of entries. Players entered the tournament a total of 135 times, which meant that as much as $16,875,000 was split between players.
Friday night we met the final nine who met yesterday in the battle for the championship. Adrian Mateos had the best chance of making it, with a stack of 125 blinds in front of him. The chipcount of the final table looked as follows:
Adrian Mateos - 12,475,000
Chris Brewer - 3,150,000
Nick Petrangelo - 2,975,000
Matthias Eibinger - 2,800,000
Quan Zhou - 2,750,000
Aleksejs Ponakovs - 2,675,000
Justin Bonomo - 2,675,000
Santhosh Suvarna - 2,400,000
Ken Tong - 1,850,000
Nick Petrangelo was the first eliminated at the final table. With pocket tens, he first opened and eventually called a push from Tong, who was covering him at the time. Tong turned over A-Q A Q and after a flopped ace, there was no help for Petrangelo.
In eighth place was Justin Bonomo, who is currently second on the World All Time Money List. If he could dominate the tournament, he could think about the first place in this prestigious ranking. However, for his eighth place finish, he increased his bankroll by "only" $491,000.
Chris Brewer sent the other dropouts to the box office. He first dealt with Alexey Ponakovs and then Ken Tong. Fifth place went to Quan Zhou and fourth place to the well-playing Chris Brewer. The latter was saddened by the combination A 9 , with which he waited in vain for help against Suvarna's pairs of eights.
Santhosh Suvarna had an unlucky ending to the tournament when he went all in on turn 9 A 8 7 with A J against Mateos's 6 8 . River 5 brought a straight flush to Mateos and eliminated Indian businessman Suvarna in third place for $1,772,000.
The last pair was Adrian Mateos and Matthias Eibinger. Chips and chiplead were spilling over from side to side, resulting in the players agreeing to a deal and a $100,000 playoff. Shortly after, both players went all in with Matthias Eibinger holding A K and Adrian Mateos T T . The flop brought a knight, but also three clubs. Mateos failed to complete the flush, however, and we recognized the champion, which was Matthias Eibinger. After the deal, he took home the trophy, a luxury Jacob & Co watch and a $3,461,261 prize.
Event #3 – $125,000 NLH – Main Event
1 – Matthias Eibinger, Austria – $3,461,261*
2 – Adrian Mateos – $3,120,739*
3 – Santhosh Suvarna, India – $1,772,000
4 – Chris Brewer, USA – $1,450,000
5 – Quan Zhou, China – $1,165,000
6 – Ken Tong, Hong Kong – $902,000
7 – Aleks Ponakovs, Latvia – $668,000
8 – Justin Bonomo, USA – $491,000
9 – Nick Petrangelo, USA – $391,000
*deal
