Triton Poker Series

Sport	Poker
Founded	2016
Founder	Paul Phua Richard Yong
Country	Malaysia (founded)
Most titles	Jason Koon (10)
Official website	triton-series.com

The Triton Poker Series is a series of poker tournaments that is played around three times a year at various locations around the world. The tournaments with buy-ins of at least 10,000 United States dollar are among the most expensive and most prestigious poker tournaments in the world.

History

The Triton Poker Series was founded by Malaysian businessman Paul Phua and co-founded by Malaysian businessman Richard Yong.^[1] The most tournaments are played in the variants No-Limit Hold'em and Short Deck. Sometimes there are tournaments in Pot-Limit Omaha on the tournament schedule as well. Since 2019 there is a Main Event in No-Limit Hold'em and a Main Event in Short Deck at each stop of the tournament series.^[2]

At the end of January 2017 three events in Manila, Macau and Montenegro were announced for the year.^[3] In May 2018 four more tournaments were held in Montenegro.^[2] There, further events in the South Korean Jeju Province were announced for the end of July 2018.^[4] The first events of 2019 were also played in Jeju-do in March.^[5] At the second event in 2019 the variant Pot-Limit Omaha was played for the first time at Triton Poker Series.^[6] At the beginning of August 2019 the Triton Million for Charity took place in London which was the most expensive poker tournament to date with a buy-in of one million Pound sterling.^[7] The tournament series planned for February 2020 in Jeju-do was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The planned holding in Montenegro in May 2020 was also canceled at the end of March 2020.^[8] The return of the tournament series in Bali announced for February 2022 also had to be postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic^[9] as well as four tournaments in Sochi due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[10] Ultimately the first event after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic took place in April 2022 in Kyrenia in Northern Cyprus.^[11] In September 2022 the Coin Rivet Invitational was held in Kyrenia as the second invitational tournament by the series.^[12] A few days after the event Ivan Leow, a co-founder and regular of the Triton Poker Series, died during the ongoing tournament series whereupon the current tournament was aborted and the remaining two events were cancelled.^[13]

The tournaments are broadcast via YouTube and the live streaming platform Twitch and feature commentators like Lex Veldhuis and Randy Lew.^[14]

Invitational tournaments

Triton Million for Charity

The Triton Million for Charity was the first ever invitational tournament hosted by the Triton Poker Series. It was held from August 1 to 3, 2019 at London Hilton on Park Lane in London. The buy-in was £1,050,000 making it the most expensive poker tournament to date. The participants had to be invited, with the organizers requesting 27 recreational players or business people as players and they in turn selecting a professional poker player. The 54 players generated a total price pool of £54,000,000.^[15]

In the first six blind levels, each lasting an hour, the recreational and professional players were placed at separate tables. Ten blind levels were played on the first day of the tournament. At the end of the day, 36 of the 54 players were still in the tournament with Bill Perkins as the chip leader. On the second day of the Triton Million the prize money ranks were reached with the elimination of Igor Kurganov. The day ended with reaching the eight-handed final table with Vivek Rajkumar leading the field. On the final day Bryn Kenney and Aaron Zang reached the final heads-up and agreed an ICM deal giving Zang a payout of £13,779,491 and Kenney £16,890,509, the largest payout in a poker tournament to date. After that, Zang regained the lead after two big pots and won the title.^[16]

Results

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Aaron Zang	£13,779,491
2nd	Bryn Kenney	£16,890,509
3rd	Dan Smith	£7,200,000
4th	Stephen Chidwick	£4,410,000
5th	Vivek Rajkumar	£3,000,000
6th	Bill Perkins	£2,200,000
7th	Alfred DeCarolis	£1,720,000
8th	Timothy Adams	£1,400,000
9th	Wai Leong Chan	£1,200,000
10th	Chin Wei Lim	£1,100,000
11th	Winfred Yu	£1,100,000

Coin Rivet Invitational

The Coin Rivet Invitational was the second invitational tournament hosted by the Triton Poker Series. It was held from September 10 to 12, 2022 at the Merit Royal Hotel & Casino, a luxurious hotel in Kyrenia in Northern Cyprus. Coin Rivet acted as a sponsor and secured the naming rights to the event with a buy-in of $210,000, making it one of the most expensive poker tournaments in 2022. Similar to the Triton Million for Charity professional poker players had to be invited by businessmen. Almost all of the world's top poker players participated in the tournament. Also three women (Sosia Jiang, Ebony Kenney and Melika Razavi) played in the Coin Rivet Invitational. In total 90 players, 45 recreational players and 45 professional players, took part in the tournament. Every player was allowed a single re-buy after being eliminated in one of the first 10 blind levels. That was used by 25 players and created a total prize pool of $23,000,000.^[17]

In the first eight blind levels, each lasting 50 minutes, the recreational and professional players sat at separate tables. After the first day of the tournament 80 players were still in the event with Leon Tsoukernik as the chip leader. On the second day of the tournament, the recreational and professional players were mixed for the first time. With Chris Brewer's elimination in 18th place the prize money ranks were reached and all remaining players were guaranteed $380,000. The day ended with 16 players with Fedor Holz leading the field. The final table was reached on the third day with Karl Chappe-Gatien starting as the chip leader. After his elimination in third place, Sam Grafton went heads-up against Linus Loeliger with a clear lead and won the tournament. The Brit received a payout of $5,500,000 for his win, along with a trophy.^[18]

Results

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Sam Grafton	$5,500,000
2nd	Linus Loeliger	$3,900,000
3rd	Karl Chappe-Gatien	$2,600,000
4th	Fedor Holz	$2,100,000
5th	Ebony Kenney	$1,700,000
6th	Aleksejs Ponakovs	$1,350,000
7th	Elias Talvitie	$1,050,000
8th	Seth Davies	$770,000
9th	Tom Vogelsang	$620,000
10th	Tony G	$485,000
11th	Vadzim Godzdanker	$485,000
12th	Daniel Cates	$440,000
13th	Theis Hennebjerre	$440,000
14th	Horace Wei	$400,000
15th	Leon Tsoukernik	$400,000
16th	David Nicholson	$380,000
17th	Eric Worre	$380,000

List of events

Start Date	Location	Type	Tournament name	Buy-in	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Source
January 3, 2016	Parañaque	No-Limit Hold'em	Cali Cup	$200,000	52	Fedor Holz	$3,072,748
September 9, 2016	Manila	No-Limit Hold'em	Charity	HK$490,000	35	Wai Kin Yong	$793,604
November 2, 2016	Parañaque	No-Limit Hold'em	Suncity Cup	HK$200,000	39	Daniel Cates	$359,229
November 4, 2016		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	HK$500,000	62	Wai Kin Yong	$2,080,556
February 17, 2017	Parañaque	No-Limit Hold'em	Six Max	HK$250,000	43	Dan Colman	$469,246
February 19, 2017		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	HK$1,000,000	39	Koray Aldemir	$1,292,509
July 16, 2017	Montenegro	No-Limit Hold'em	Six Max	HK$250,000	41	Fedor Holz	$444,893
July 18, 2017		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	HK$1,000,000	52	Manig Loeser	$2,162,644
October 16, 2017	Macau	No-Limit Hold'em	Six Max	HK$250,000	87	Stefan Schillhabel	$752,446
October 18, 2017		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	HK$1,000,000	83	John Juanda	$2,870,092
May 12, 2018	Montenegro	Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$250,000	61	Phil Ivey	$604,992
May 13, 2018		No-Limit Hold'em	Six Max	HK$250,000	35	Richard Yong	$388,024
May 15, 2018		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	HK$1,000,000	63	Mikita Badziakouski	$2,499,185
May 17, 2018		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$1,000,000	103	Jason Koon	$3,579,836
July 23, 2018	Jeju Province	Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$100,000	61	Nick Schulman	$271,975
July 25, 2018		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$500,000	44	Ivan Leow	$1,079,367
July 26, 2018		No-Limit Hold'em	Six Max	HK$500,000	39	David Peters	$1,118,484
July 28, 2018		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$1,000,000	60	Kenneth Kee	$2,867,009
July 30, 2018		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	HK$2,000,000	55	Mikita Badziakouski	$5,257,027
August 7, 2018	Sochi	No-Limit Hold'em	High Roller	₽3,000,000	47	Aymon Hata	$755,384
August 8, 2018		No-Limit Hold'em	Super High Roller	₽6,000,000	29	Ivan Leow	$1,133,555
March 2, 2019	Jeju Province	Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$250,000	65	Justin Bonomo	$586,114
March 3, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$500,000	69	Devan Tang	$1,239,759
March 4, 2019		No-Limit Hold'em	Six Max	HK$500,000	81	Michael Soyza	$1,420,581
March 5, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$1,000,000	81	Jason Koon	$2,840,945
March 7, 2019		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	HK$2,000,000	48	Timothy Adams	$3,536,550
March 8, 2019		No-Limit Hold'em	Triton Refresh	HK$1,000,000	25	Jason Koon	$973,306
March 9, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$1,000,000	37	Timofey Kuznetsov	$1,859,970
May 5, 2019	Montenegro	No-Limit Hold'em	Turbo	HK$250,000	45	Steve O'Dwyer	$472,788
May 6, 2019		No-Limit Hold'em	Six Max	HK$500,000	79	Bryn Kenney	$1,431,376
May 7, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$100,000	70	Winfred Yu	$259,952
May 8, 2019		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	HK$1,000,000	75	Bryn Kenney	$2,713,859
May 9, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	Turbo	HK$250,000	37	Henrik Hecklen	$434,500
May 10, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	Main Event	HK$1,000,000	98	Rui Cao	$3,351,130
May 12, 2019		Pot-Limit Omaha	–	HK$200,000	37	Hing Yang Chow	$336,383
May 13, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	Turbo	HK$200,000	64	Quek Sheng Sechariah	$471,416
May 14, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$250,000	65	John Juanda	$601,358
May 15, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$750,000	52	Mikita Badziakouski	$1,694,397
May 16, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	HK$500,000	42	Ben Lamb	$974,634
May 17, 2019		No-Limit Hold'em / Short Deck Mix	–	HK$300,000	27	Daniel Cates	$500,682
July 31, 2019	London	No-Limit Hold'em	Six Max Turbo	£25,000	117	Linus Loeliger	$840,039
August 1, 2019		No-Limit Hold'em	Triton Million for Charity	£1,050,000	54	Aaron Zang	$16,775,820
August 2, 2019		No-Limit Hold'em	–	£50,000	109	Charlie Carrel	$1,601,853
August 4, 2019		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	£100,000	130	Wai Kin Yong	$3,154,065
August 5, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	£25,000	106	David Benefield	$789,707
August 6, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	Main Event	£100,000	108	Justin Bonomo	$3,248,728
August 7, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	£50,000	52	Liang Xu	$945,416
August 9, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	Les Ambassadeurs Private Event	£100,000	67	Tan Xuan	$2,285,430
August 10, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	Les Ambassadeurs Private Event	£250,000	73	John Patgorski	$5,821,826
August 12, 2019	Rozvadov	No-Limit Hold'em	Super High Roller	€100,000	32	Örpen Kısacıkoğlu	$1,015,180
August 13, 2019		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	€25,500	27	Tony G	$265,859
April 2, 2022	Kyrenia	No-Limit Hold'em	–	$50,000	82	András Németh	$1,082,000
April 3, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	–	$100,000	69	Teun Mulder	$1,940,000
April 4, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	–	$50,000	32	Matthias Eibinger	$676,000
April 5, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$75,000	51	Phil Ivey	$1,170,000
April 6, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$75,000	41	Winfred Yu	$1,010,000
May 13, 2022	Madrid	No-Limit Hold'em	–	€20,000	90	Michael Addamo	$496,923
May 14, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	–	€30,000	93	Paul Phua	$769,711
May 15, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	€20,000	62	Chris Brewer	$387,209
May 16, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	€25,000	68	Rui Cao	$517,821
May 17, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	–	€50,000	101	Mikita Badziakouski	$1,407,519
May 18, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	–	€75,000	63	Michael Addamo	$1,210,721
May 19, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	€50,000	57	Chin Wei Lim	$900,958
May 20, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	€100,000	93	Henrik Hecklen	$2,293,679
May 21, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	Turbo	€50,000	37	László Bujtás	$665,329
May 22, 2022		Pot-Limit Omaha	–	€25,000	34	Tom Dwan	$306,291
May 23, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	Main Event	€100,000	60	Stephen Chidwick	$1,916,463
May 24, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	€150,000	34	Jason Koon	$1,863,228
May 25, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	Turbo	€30,000	33	Tom Dwan	$359,859
September 5, 2022	Kyrenia	No-Limit Hold'em	–	$25,000	131	Patrik Antonius	$825,000
September 6, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	–	$30,000	123	Ben Tollerene	$807,927
September 7, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	–	$50,000	117	Pieter Aerts	$1,472,000
September 8, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	–	$75,000	88	Kahle Burns	$1,730,000
September 10, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	Coin Rivet Invitational	$210,000	115	Sam Grafton	$5,500,000
September 11, 2022		Pot-Limit Omaha	–	$25,000	32	Christopher Philippou	$270,000
September 12, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	Main Event	$100,000	99	Punnat Punsri	$2,600,000
September 13, 2022		No-Limit Hold'em	Turbo	$50,000	32	Matthias Eibinger	$545,000
September 14, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$30,000	38	Phil Ivey	$387,000
September 15, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$40,000	45	Karl Chappe-Gatien	$565,000
September 16, 2022		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$50,000	30	Sam Greenwood	$341,275
March 1, 2023	Hội An	No Limit Hold’em	GG Super Million$ Live	$25,000	166	Chin Wei Lim	$965,000
March 2, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$15,000	172	José Barbero	$600,000
March 3, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Mystery Bounty	$20,000	179	Mark Rubbathan	$396,000
March 4, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$30,000	171	Jans Arends	$921,178
March 5, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$50,000	139	Dao Minh Phu	$1,670,000
March 6, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$75,000	85	Örpen Kısacıkoğlu	$1,753,000
March 7, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Turbo	$25,000	104	Andrew Leathem	$670,000
March 8, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Main Event	$100,000	135	Talal Shakerchi	$3,250,000
March 9, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Turbo	$50,000	31	Jason Koon	$574,000
March 10, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$25,000	57	Danny Tang	$427,000
March 11, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$50,000	44	Michael Watson	$695,000
March 12, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	Main Event	$100,000	49	Aaron Zang	$1,544,000
March 13, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$20,000	28	Sam Greenwood	$207,000
May 10, 2023	Kyrenia	No Limit Hold’em	GG Super Million$ Live	$25,000	158	Santhosh Suvarna	$700,000
May 11, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$20,000	138	Jason Koon	$663,000
May 12, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Mystery Bounty	$30,000	155	Biao Ding	$540,500
May 13, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$40,000	125	Grégoire Auzoux	$1,050,024
May 14, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$50,000	104	Viacheslav Buldygin	$1,342,000
May 15, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Turbo	$25,000	83	Anatoliy Zlotnikov	$496,100
May 16, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$75,000	87	Michael Soyza	$1,735,000
May 18, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Luxon Invitational	$200,000	86	Ramin Hajiyev	$4,122,554
May 19, 2023		Pot Limit Omaha	–	$25,000	37	Chris Brewer	$315,000
May 20, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Main Event	$100,000	101	Jason Koon	$2,451,082
May 21, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Turbo	$50,000	32	Danny Tang	$545,000
May 22, 2023		Pot Limit Omaha	–	$30,000	34	Michael Watson	$347,000
May 23, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$25,000	38	Richard Yong	$323,000
May 24, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	Main Event	$50,000	44	Danny Tang	$750,000
May 25, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$20,000	29	Daniel Dvoress	$214,000
July 27, 2023	London	No Limit Hold’em	GGMillion$ Live	$25,000	162	Lucas Greenwood	$897,000
July 28, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$25,000	120	Fedor Holz	$609,853
July 29, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Mystery Bounty	$40,000	133	Espen Jørstad	$639,000
July 30, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$50,000	112	Ole Schemion	$1,350,000
July 31, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$60,000	104	Jason Koon	$1,570,000
August 1, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$200,000	81	David Yan	$3,052,002
August 2, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Turbo Bounty	$30,000	96	Pedro Garagnani	$459,000
August 3, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Luxon Invitational	$250,000	118	Bryn Kenney	$6,860,000
August 4, 2023		Pot Limit Omaha	–	$25,000	77	Seth Gottlieb	$511,000
August 5, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Main Event	$125,000	151	Timothy Adams	$4,185,000
August 6, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Turbo	$60,000	61	Phil Ivey	$1,007,000
August 7, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$60,000	106	Danny Tang	$1,600,000
August 8, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$30,000	37	Wai Kin Yong	$350,000
August 9, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	Main Event	$60,000	46	Jason Koon	$828,000
August 10, 2023		Short Deck Ante-Only	–	$25,000	33	Phil Ivey	$280,500
October 24, 2023	Monte-Carlo	No Limit Hold’em	The Special Triton Invitational	$200,000	73	Dan Smith	$3,870,000
October 25, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Bounty Turbo	$50,000	57	Jonathan Jaffe	$501,000
October 26, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Main Event	$125,000	135	Matthias Eibinger	$3,461,261
October 27, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Turbo	$25,000	57	Steve O'Dwyer	$416,000
October 28, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$100,000	120	Christoph Vogelsang	$2,644,000
October 29, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$30,000	145	Ognyan Dimov	$1,010,000
October 30, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	Mystery Bounty	$40,000	162	Mario Mosböck	$718,000
October 31, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	–	$50,000	136	Danny Tang	$1,580,000
November 1, 2023		No Limit Hold’em	GG Million$ Live	$25,000	187	Chin Wei Lim	$899,893
November 2, 2023		Pot Limit Omaha	Bounty	$30,000	74	Gavin Andreanoff	$387,000
November 3, 2023		Pot Limit Omaha	–	$50,000	72	Daniel Dvoress	$956,000
November 4, 2023		Pot Limit Omaha	Turbo	$25,000	50	Jason Koon	$365,000

All Time Money List

Note: All Time Money List is correct as of November 5, 2023.^[19]

Rank	Player	Earnings	Wins	itm
1	Bryn Kenney	$37,796,705	3	12
2	Jason Koon	$26,217,985	10	41
3	Aaron Zang	$21,091,439	2	3
4	Stephen Chidwick	$18,485,352	1	30
5	Dan Smith	$18,118,316	1	16
6	Mikita Badziakouski	$17,913,717	4	22
7	Paul Phua	$17,204,882	1	34
8	Danny Tang	$14,887,204	5	27
9	Timothy Adams	$13,523,448	2	15
10	Sam Greenwood	$12,989,504	1	29

References

External links

• Official site
• Triton Poker Series Hendon Mob profile