For the past few days, all eyes have been on the Triton Invitational - the most expensive tournament of the Triton Monte-Carlo stop, where we've seen a mix of different businessmen or poker enthusiasts and professionals. The buy-in for the tournament was up to $210,000.

Patrik Antonius chipleader at the Triton Invitational final table, Roman Hrabec second

The entries counter stopped at 102 here, so the prizepool was worth $20,400,000. The $5,130,000 prize was waiting for the winner and the top nine players fought for it yesterday. They were led by Patrik Antonius with a stack of up to 9,660,000.

The road to the biggest prize was not easy for Patrik, however, with names like Mikita Badziakouski, Espen Jorstad and Roman Hrabec standing in his way. Vladimir Korzinin, who has only been playing poker tournaments for a few months, also made it to the final table.

Mikita Badziakouski finished in 6th place, Roman Hrabec finished in 4th place for $1,867,000 and Espen Jorstad finished in 3rd place for $2,255,000. The aforementioned Vladimir Korzinin and the newest member of the WSOP Hall of Fame, Patrik Antonius, made it to the final heads-up.

Patrik was able to take down Korzinin as well, taking home the biggest prize of his life in the form of $5,130,000. Vladimir Korzinin added $3,470,000 to his account for his second place finish, instantly becoming the number one player on the Estonian all-time money list. He only needed three lifetime ITM placings to do it.

Jesse Lonis has his first title

In addition to the Invitational, the final day of the 50k NLH 7-Handed tournament was also underway with a buy-in of $53,000, 125 entries and a prizepool of $6,250,000. A $1,502,000 prize awaited the winner here.

Names like Dan Smith, Leonard Maue, Daniel Rezaei, Punnat Punsri, Mario Mosbock, Jesse Lonis and Alex Kulev were all fighting for this amount at the final table.

Jesse Lonis and Punnat Punsri went into the final heads-up match, with Punsri holding a 3:1 advantage. However, Jesse was able to handle his opponent and took the full amount for himself for the winner and his first Triton title.

The Main Event has started

Not to be outdone for one day, the NLH Main Event kicked off yesterday with a buy-in of $132,500 and 142 entries. However, this number is not yet final as registration is still open.

77 players have advanced to today's Day 2 and they are led by Kayhan Mokri with a stack of 1,687,000. However, there are also names like Alex Foxen, Steve O'Dwyer, Samuel Mullur, Fedor Holz, Bryn Kenney, Nick Petrangelo, Isaac Haxton, Dan Smith, Leonard Maue, Leonard Rezaei, Daniel Rezaei, Leon Sturm, Mikita Badziakouski, Chris Brewer, Brian Kim, Kristen Foxen, Ole Schemion, Espen Jorstad, Roman Hrabec and Patrik Antonius.

Play will resume today at 13:00, when the blinds will start at 5k/10k/10k and will run again in 50-minute levels. You can also look forward to the livestream, which is scheduled to start at 14:00.

Source - tritonpoker.plus