In our previous article, we introduced you to the winner of the record-breaking Triton tournament, Jeremy Ausmus. Today, we're going to continue that by introducing you to the latest trio of Triton Jeju Series champions.
The fourth tournament of the Triton Jeju series, which is held at the Landing Casino at Shinhwa World, was a $31,800 buy-in NLH tournament. It brought 252 entries and a prizepool worth $7,560,000. A $1,517,000 prize awaited the winner and names like David Peters, Sam Greenwood, Manuel Fritz and Brandon Wilson battled it out at the final table.
None of these names made it to the final heads-up. Ramin Hajiyev entered as a massive chipleader, needing just 5 hands to beat his opponent. This was Ramin's second Triton title and a $1,517,000 prize to go with it.
| 1 | Ramin Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | $1,517,000 |
| 2 | Viacheslav Balaev | Russia | $1,008,000 |
| 3 | Mao Renji | China | $737,000 |
| 4 | Winfred Yu | Hong Kong | $595,000 |
| 5 | Manuel Fritz | Austria | $467,000 |
| 6 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | $353,500 |
| 7 | Brandon Wilson | USA | $259,000 |
| 8 | Kahle Burns | Australia | $190,000 |
| 9 | David Peters | USA | $159,000 |
Anatoly Filatov is champion again after years
The next tournament on the schedule was the $26,500 buy-in WPT Global Slam, which produced the second-largest field of 389 entries and took the prizepool to $9,725,000.
Names such as Orpen Kisacikoglu, David Coleman, Justin Saliba, Anatoly Filatov and Fedor Holz sat at the final table. Fedor Holz took the final 5th place here and had to settle for $529,000. Justin Saliba finished in fourth place with $675,000, and Anatoly Filatov made it all the way to the final heads-up.
This gave Anatoly a chance to win his first Triton title and his biggest career payday. He didn't let this opportunity to slip away and eventually emerged as the champion after 30 minutes of heads-up play. He walked away with the trophy and a $1,882,000 prize. This is the first live tournament win for Filatov since 2019, and with this amount, his career winnings surpassed the $7.4 million mark.
| 1 | Anatoly Filatov | Russia | $1,882,000 |
| 2 | Calvin Lee | USA | $1,185,000 |
| 3 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | Ukraine | $850,000 |
| 4 | Justin Saliba | USA | $675,000 |
| 5 | Fedor Holz | Germany | $529,000 |
| 6 | David Coleman | USA | $416,000 |
| 7 | Pascal Lefrancois | Canada | $312,000 |
| 8 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | $221,000 |
| 9 | Jon Ander Vallinas | Spain | $176,000 |
Sean Winter with his first Triton title
Event number seven was the NLH Mystery Bounty with a buy-in of $42,400, with $20,000 going to bounty prizes. In total, the tournament brought in 223 entries and a prizepool of $8,920,000. A bounty of $935,000 awaited the winner here.
The final table here was filled with familiar names such as Jeremy Ausmus, Benjamin Tollerene, Matthias Eibinger, Klemens Roiter, Ding Biao, Mikita Badziakouski and Sean Winter.
Mikita Badziakouski entered heads-up play as chipleader with a stack worth 31 blinds, and sitting against him was Sean Winter with a stack worth 25 blinds. Heads-up play lasted an hour, after which Sean Winter emerged as the winner. He took home his first Triton trophy along with a $935,000 prize. He also bagged three bounty envelopes to go with it, so he will draw for even more prize money the next day. Mikita Badziakouski added $630,000 for his second place finish and will be opening 7 envelopes.
| 1 | Sean Winter | USA | $935,000 |
| 2 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | $630,000 |
| 3 | Klemens Roiter | Austria | $441,000 |
| 4 | Matthias Eibinger | Austria | $363,000 |
| 5 | Benjamin Tollerene | USA | $287,000 |
| 6 | Ding Biao | China | $218,000 |
| 7 | Jeremy Ausmus | USA | $157,000 |
| 8 | Kahle Burns | Australia | $115,000 |
Another tournament will see its champion today
While we were getting to know the winner of tournament number seven, tournament number 8, the $53,000 buy-in NLH 7-Handed, was also getting underway. This one brought 215 entries and a prizepool worth $10,750,000, of which the winner will receive $2,233,000.
There are 42 players still in contention for this prize and they are led by Matas Cimbolas with a stack of 2,905,000. However, there are also names like Mike Watson, Alex Foxen, Bryn Kenney, Dan Smith, Danny Tang, Santhosh Suvarna, Mario Mosböck, Fabian Bernhauser and Roman Hrabec.
Source - Triton Poker
