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Let's now look together at the past hours that brought players and spectators the final day of the most expensive event so far. The $200,000 buy-in saw 51 players pay a total of 81 times, producing a prize pool of $16,200,000. Prizes starting at $325,000 and ending at $4,300,000 awaited the top 13 players.
The final day sent such names as Fedor Holz, Ole Schemion, Phil Ivey and Jason Koon home empty-handed, but the second most successful player of the Triton series, Mikita Badziakouski (4 titles), ended up being the unluckiest in 14th place. Decisive moment was the preflop flip with a pair of 7 7 against A K under Espen Jorstad, when the king on the river decided to burst the bubble.
It didn't take long and after a few seat-opens, eight players sat at the final table:
- Espen Jorstad - 61 BBs
- Nacho Barbero - 46 BBs
- David Yan - 38 BBs
- Chris Brewer - 37 BBs
- Danny Tang - 37 BBs
- Tim Adams - 23 BBs
- Aleks Ponakovs - 15 BBs
- Juan Pardo - 13 BBs
The finals started right away, and viewers could witness, among other things, an incredible hand on the stream, in which Chris Brewer with K T flopped the second-nuts flush, but Espen Jorstad with J J completed quads on the turn (you can find the hand at 9:06:27) . Right after Espen's all-in on the river, Brewer threw all 17 of his time banks over the line, but he started thinking out loud and recalculating all the possibilities. Jorstad's all-in was worth 2.6m, Brewer was behind 1.7m, which was still almost 30bb. The long thinking paid off in the end, Brewer was able to fold the cards and thus save his tournament life.
Despite this responsible fold, however, Brewer did not help himself much, as right after Juan Pardo, he was the one who had to leave the table in seventh place. Others on the eliminated list were Aleksejs Ponakovs and Danny Tang, who already took home a 7-figure prize. In the last four players, the stacks were even, but the players started to debate the deal. It lasted over half an hour, during which many telephone debates with backers took place, but despite this, the result was clear - no deal!
Not long after, the Canadian representative Timothy Adams ($1,550,000) left the game, but here came another debate about the deal, which already found a successful end. Argentina's representative Nacho Barbero had a chip lead of 55bb at this moment (more than his rivals combined), but in the end he also nodded to the following deal:
- Barbero – 3,445,807$
- Yan – 2,952,002$
- Jorstad – 2,766,191$
The players were still waiting for a playoff for the title and $100,000, which Espen Jorstad was the first to leave after the succout. Espen with Q Q was doing very well against Yan's pair of 9 9 , but it was the four hearts on the board that sent the 2022 WSOP Main Event champion out of the game.
After this game, Yan went heads-up with a lead of 47bb:34bb, but nothing was that easy - the battle lasting over an hour brought a lot of double-ups, players were constantly changing the chip leader, but in the end it was only David Yan who secured the first Triton title not only for himself, but also for the whole of New Zealand.
Event #7 – $200,000 NLH 8-Handed:
- David Yan, New Zealand – $3,052,002*
- Nacho Barbero, Argentina – $3,445,807*
- Espen Jorstad, Norway – $2,766,191*
- Tim Adams, Canada – $1,550,000
- Danny Tang, Hong Kong – $1,247,000
- Aleks Ponakovs, Latvia – $970,000
- Chris Brewer, USA – $770,000
- Juan Pardo, Spain – $600,000
- Seth Davies, USA – $453,000
Source: Triton-Series, YouTube
