The Triton Super High Roller Series certainly needs no further introduction, as its structure, spirit and player composition have quickly become the most luxurious poker series in the world. Tournaments with astronomical buy-ins regularly attract the best players in the world, who will be concentrated in Monte Carlo in the coming days.
$50k Turbo Bounty
The premiere of this series started immediately with the $200,000 Triton Invitational event, the unique structure of which again brought the field of players divided in half between entrepreneurs and professionals. For those who did not manage to jump into this tournament, a $50,000 NLH Turbo Bounty event was prepared simultaneously, in which a $2,850,000 prize pool was played for thanks to 57 entries.
Even though names such as Lucas Greenwood, Michael Soyza and Aleksejs Ponakovs appeared at the final table, the lucky one who finally took home the trident trophy and the $501,000 reward was the American professional Jonathan Jaffe. In addition to the mentioned reward, he also took home 8 bounties for eliminating opponents, each worth $20,000, which, together with his own bounty, meant a total payout of $681,000.
$200k Invitational
In addition to this fast tournament, they managed to play two days of the mentioned Invitational event, in which the players managed to pay the 200,000 buy-in a total of 73 times. Two days of play have whittled the field down to the final 9 players who will play live today for the biggest shares of the $14,600,000 prize pool. You could watch the stream from the second day of play on our website yesterday:
Today's final will not be any more stingy for a great action, which is promised by famous names such as Danny Tang, Jean Noel Thorel, Fedor Holz or Dan Smith. Each of the participants of today's final day has a guaranteed $406,000 in their pocket, but the goal for all will be the championship valued at a reward of $3,870,000. Elton Tsang is currently the closest to this prize, but it will certainly not be easy in the mentioned competition - who do you favor to win the title?
Chipcount of the final table:
- Elton Tsang – 74bb
- Dan Smith – 72bb
- Alexander Shelukhin – 66bb
- Jean Noel Thorel – 55bb
- Danny Tang – 47bb
- Mario Mosbock – 40bb
- Fedor Holz – 35bb
- Haralabos Voulgaris – 30bb
- Ilkin Garibli – 19bb