To kick off today's article, we'll move on to the final NLH tournament of the Triton Montenegro series, which was also the most expensive tournament of the entire schedule - the 200K NLH 8-Handed. This one had a buy-in of $212,000, brought 93 entries and a total prizepool of $18,600,000. A $4,789,000 prize awaited the winner.

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Afinal table full of the biggest names

At the head of the final nine sat Wiktor Malinowski, who had a huge stack of up to 5,025,000. However, it meant nothing as he had the biggest names in poker on the table. Judge for yourself:

Matas Cimbolas was the first to fall from the table, taking $483,000 in cash. He was followed to the cashier by Nick Petrangelo, Jonathan Jaffe, Jason Koon, Mikita Badziakouski, Mike Watson and Steve O'Dwyer.

Wiktor Malinowski and Adrian Mateos faced each other in the final heads-up. Malinowski had a huge advantage here and refused to debate the deal. He went into heads-up play with a 94 blind stack against Mateos with a 30 blind stack.

Heads-up play was short-lived here and Malinowski handled Mateos handily. For Wiktor Malinowski, this is the first triton title that earned him the highest payday of the entire stop. Mateos now had to settle for second place and a reward of $3,292,000.

Finnish dominance in PLO

Let's move on to the first PLO tournament of this stop, which was the 25K PLO 6-Handed with 82 entries and a prizepool of $2,050,000. A $535,000 prize awaited the winner.

The first day was played down to the last four, who then faced each other in the second, final day. The chipleader here was Finnish player Samuli Sipila, who we've mentioned to you in the past. Samuli put on an incredible performance during the PGT in Las Vegas, and he came to triton to show that he is one of the best PLO players in the world.

His journey could easily be summed up as - he came, he saw, he won. Samuli played his very first triton, played the first PLO tournament of the schedule and immediately became the winner of it as well. He also took on the recent champion from Belarus in the final three-hour heads-up match to take home the first triton trophy. As Samuli himself said, he has won three of the last five tournaments he has played. An incredible achievement.

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