The Triton Series is currently taking place in the luxurious Monte Carlo, where many top players from around the world have found their way to. The first events have already seen their champions, with Jonathan Jaffe claiming the title first and Dan Smith the day before yesterday. Last night continued with the $25,000 Turbo event, which saw the third champion in a row.
$25k Turbo
Friday's action, in addition to the $125k Main Event, also focused on the $25k Turbo, in which players also made 57 entries with the help of a few re-entries. That's exactly the same number as there were during the first $50k Turbo Bounty event. This brought the total prize pool to $1,425,000, which was split between the final table players.
The bubble burst after the elimination of Alex Kulev, whose A K was not enough for Fedor Holz's A T . After this bad beat, the final table was formed, which included the aforementioned Fedor Holtz. The latter made his second consecutive appearance at the final table, earning $694,000 for seventh place in the $200k Invitational event.
Chipcount Final Table $25k Turbo:
Steve O’Dwyer – 2,02M
Michael Watson – 1,785M
Clemen Deng – 1,575M
Henrik Hecklen – 1,425M
Dimitar Danchev – 1,335M
Michael Soyza – 1,335M
Fedor Holz – 1,31M
Luc Greenwood – 480,000
Punnat Punsri – 120,000
Fedor Holtz found the threes after Clem Deng , Luc Greenwood and Punnat Punsri dropped out. However, O'Dwyer had a pair of tens that sent Holtz out of the tournament in sixth place. His back-to-back final table finishes netted him a reward of $89,000.
Micheal Soyza was the next out, taken out by Watson. The play in the last four was incredible, as the average stack was only 11BB, with the chipleader having only 16 blinds advantage. Henrik Hecklen pulled the short end of the last four and later Mike Watson, who took home $195,000 for his third place finish.
In heads-up play, Steve O'Dwyer and Dimitar Danchev met for the first time in the Triton series. Finally, on the last hand, the players went all in - Danchev held K 3 and O´Dwyer T 8 . O'Dwyer completed the straight to become the champion of the $25k Turbo event, which earned him $416,000.
Event #5 – $25,000 NLH Turbo – Main Event
1 – Steve O’Dwyer, USA – $416,000
2 – Dimitar Danchev, Bulgaria – $299,000
3 – Mike Watson, Canada – $195,000
4 – Henrik Hecklen, Denmark – $147,000
5 – Michael Soyza, Malaysia – $114,000
6 – Fedor Holz, Germany – $89,000
7 – Punnat Punsri, Thailand – $70,000
8 – Luc Greenwood, Canada – $54,000
9 – Clemen Deng, USA – $41,000
$125k Main Event
Last night also continued with Day 2 of the Main Event, which featured a $125,000 buy-in. Registration was open until the start of Day 2, when we sponsored the official numbers. The $125,000 buy-in was cashed by players a total of 135 times, which meant a prizepool of $16,875,000.
At the end of the second day of play, we met the final nine, who will compete for another prestigious title today. Adrian Mateos will sit at the table as chipleader, with a whopping 125 blind stack - 12.5M chips. In comparison, second Chris Brewer has 32 blinds in the form of 3,150,000 chips.
$125k Main Event Final Table Chipcount:
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
You can also follow the action at the final table via livestream on our website.
