Younger Poker Star Wins First Triton Title & $2.5 Million With Mother and father on Rail

The Triton Poker Excessive Curler Sequence in Maestral Resort & On line casino in Budva, Montenegro continued on with the most important buy-in of the sequence to this point in Occasion #8 – $100,000 – 8-Handed, an occasion that drew 102 runners for a prize pool of $10.2 million.

The lion’s share of that went to high-stakes darling Alex Kulev, who earned his first Triton title and $2,566,000 as he defeated fellow younger professional Thomas Santerne throughout heads-up play. In the meantime, a second Triton trophy went to a different dominant younger poker participant in Adrian Mateos, who shipped Occasion #7 – $50,000 – 8-Handed for $1,761,000.

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There have been dramatic moments through the $100,000 buy-in tournaments, together with when chip chief Santerne tangled with fellow huge stack Mike Watson on the stone bubble.

Watson, who received an earlier occasion within the sequence, discovered himself all in with ace-king to be flipping towards Santerne’s pocket tens. An ace-high flop all however assured a double for Watson, however a rivered ten sucked the life out of the room because the Canadian crusher missed out on a six-figure payday.

Those that made the cash however had been eradicated forward of the ultimate desk embody Seth Davies (sixteenth – $160,000), Nacho Barbero (14th – $168,000) and Sean Winter, who fell on the ultimate desk bubble for in tenth for $209,000.

Bryn Kenney was the primary to go on the last desk as he ran queens into the queen of Danny Tang shortly after doubling by the identical opponent. Subsequent out was Latvian star Aleksejs Poankovs, whose ace-eight could not beat out the jacks of American professional and poker creator Dylan Linde.

Linde was subsequent to go as his ace-five was pipped by Liang’s ace-ten. The eliminations of Daniel Dvoress, Tang, Maher Nouira and Xu Liang adopted earlier than a heads-up showdown between younger stars Kulev and Santerne.

The 2 gamers had been even in chips, however Kulev had the benefit as his dad and mom flew into Montenegro to witness their son battle for the Triton title.

“I’m somewhat bit overwhelmed, to be trustworthy,” Kulev advised Triton after the victory. “This implies rather a lot to me. To perform this in entrance of my household may be very particular to me. I’ll cherish this for a very long time.”

Triton Occasion #8 – $100,000 – 8-Handed Closing Desk Outcomes

Mateos Wins Second Triton Title

Kulev wasn’t the one 29-year-old crusher to choose up a trophy and seven-figure rating at Triton. Adrian Mateos topped a subject of 159 runners within the $50,000 buy-in Occasion #8 to win his second Triton title and $1,761,000 because the Spaniard defeated yet one more up-and-coming participant in Justin Saliba.

“This week I ran so good,” stated Mateos. “And I loved it.”

Others who cashed in Occasion #8 embody Patrik Antonius (twenty fifth – $80,000) Kulev, (twenty second – $87,500), Brian Kim (eleventh – $151,000) and Chris Brewer (tenth – $151,000).

There have been no scarcity of huge names who ran deep, together with poker legend Phil Ivey (sixth – $408,000), Austrian soccer professional Mario Mosbock (ninth – $178,100) and high-stakes crushers Dan Smith (eighth – $215,000) and Nick Petrangelo (sixth – $667,000).

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Triton Occasion #7 – $50,000 – 8-Handed Closing Desk Outcomes

There’s nonetheless extra Triton Montenegro motion to come back, together with the $132,500 buy-in NLHE Primary Occasion that kicks off on Monday, Might 20.

Watch the ultimate desk motion of Occasions 7 and eight on Triton’s YouTube channel.

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