To kick off the article, we take a look at the $104,000 buy-in 100k PLO Main Event, which brought 83 entries and a prizepool of $8.3 million. This left a $2,187,000 prize waiting for the winner.
PLO Main Event Finale
Hungarian player Laszlo Bujtas made it to the final table as chipleader with a stack of 4,555,000. He was kept company at the table by Dylan Weisman, Eelis Parssinen and Danny Tang.
Bujtas eventually finished in third place and the final heads-up match pitted Christopher Frank of Germany and Dylan Weisman of the USA against each other. The players negotiated a deal here, after which there was $70,000 to play for, a trophy and a luxury watch for the winner. The winner was German player Frank, who won the first triton title and $2,008,910 to go with it.
Place | Name | Country | Prize |
1. | Christopher Frank | Germany | 2.008.910$ |
2. | Dylan Weisman | USA | 1.666.090$ |
3. | Laszlo Bujtas | Hungary | 982.000$ |
4. | Eelis Parssinen | Finland | 795.000$ |
5. | Tomas Ribeiro | Portugal | 635.000$ |
6. | Danny Tang | Hong Kong | 495.000$ |
7. | Ben Tollerene | USA | 391.000$ |
Samuli Sipila with second title
The penultimate tournament of the Triton Montenegro series was a 50k PLO with a buy-in of $52,000. Here, the number of entries reached 61 and so the prizepool was worth $3,050,000, of which $839,000 was waiting for the winner.
Biao Ding made it to the final table as chipleader with a stack of 3,300,000. However, he had names like Patrik Antonius, Samuli Sipila, Nacho Barbero and Danny Tang on the table.
Players from Finland took 3 of the last 4 places here. Fourth place went to Eelis Parssinen, third place went to Patrik Antonius and Samuli Sipila sat straight into the final heads-up where Nacho Barbero sat opposite him.
Nacho started heads-up play with a stack of 9,100,000, while Samuli had just 3,100,000. But that didn't mean anything. Heads-up play lasted two hours, during which time Samuli managed to take the lead, shaving Barbero for all he was worth and taking home the full $839,000. Thus, Samuli Sipila showed us once again that he is one of the best PLO players in the world. Triton Montenegro was his first Triton where he played 3 PLO tournaments and won two of them. This immediately put him on the wall of multiple winners.
Place | Name | Country | Prize |
1. | Samuli Sipila | Finland | 839.000$ |
2. | Nacho Barbero | Argentina | 596.300$ |
3. | Patrik Antonius | Finland | 390.000$ |
4. | Eelis Parssinen | Finland | 300.100$ |
5. | Biao Ding | China | 238.000$ |
6. | Alex Komaromi | Uruguay | 186.000$ |
7. | Danny Tang | Hong Kong | 146.000$ |
Stephen Chidwick fell in heads-up play
The last tournament of the hamonogram is now behind us and that was the 30k PLO Bounty Quattro with a buy-in of $31,200, 41 entries and a total prizepool of $1,230,000. A $250,000 bounty awaited the winner and the last 11 players were awarded bounties for eliminating their opponents.
Making the final table as chipleader was Danish player Martin Dam with a stack of 2,530,000, for whom this was also the very first triton stop. He played three tournaments here and finished ITM in each.
Martin met Stephen Chidwick in the final heads-up, who had a stack of just 6 blinds. Martin Dam had a stack of 49 blinds and he wasn't going to let the chance to win be taken away from him. He defeated Chidwick to take home the first triton trophy. He added $250,000 for the winner and another $280,000 for 7 eliminations. Congratulations!
Place | Name | Country | Prize | Bounty |
1. | Martin Dam | Denmark | 250.000$ | 280.000$ |
2. | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 179.000$ | 40.000$ |
3. | Dylan Linde | USA | 114.000$ | 40.000$ |
4. | Biao Ding | China | 87.000$ | - |
5. | Brian Rast | USA | 67.000$ | 10.000$ |
6. | Jason Koon | USA | 51.000$ | 10.000$ |
7. | Ronald Keijzer | Netherlands | 42.000$ | - |
Source - triton-series, tritonpoker.plus, pokerphotoarchive, joe giron