Order Restored as Vogelsang, Haxton, Chidwick, Barbero, Jaffe, Mokri, Punnsri, Watson, and Martirosian Win at Triton Jeju

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Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju crowns champions

Just as he did at the Onyx Highroller Series in Merit last month, Ossi Ketola provided the sideshow at Triton Jeju as he took on a bunch of highstakes professionals in the bloodiest of nosebleed heads-up games. He won and lost, but mostly lost, fortunes unfathomable to the vast majority of people who watched on incredulously from the virtual rail, courtesy of the Triton cameras which proved it really did happen. 

Vogelsang outlasted 227 entrants in the NLH Main Event to win almost $4.1m

The tournaments, however, took their rightful place centre stage, with Main Events in both the No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha variants piquing the most interest as two titans of the game were crowned rightful champions. A few days ago, Christoph Vogelsang outlasted 227 entrants in the NLH Main Event to win almost $4.1m. Yesterday, Isaac Haxton was the last person standing from a field of 116 to win $2.8m. 

The Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju came hot on the heels of a hugely successful inaugural Triton One. The Main event for that preliminary festival delivered 1046 runners, generating a prize pool of $7,607,558 and paying out $1.37 million to German pro Joshua Gebissa who overcame four-time Triton Super High Roller Series champion Punnat Punsri heads-up. 

Vogelsang’s triumph 

Vogelsang is a veteran of highstakes, a student of the game and one of poker’s best role models. Sixteenth on the all-time money list, he is the definition of ‘get it quietly,’ generating shockingly little fanfare on his march to a whopping $46m in live career winnings. All aspects of his technical acumen, composure and grit were on show down the homestretch of this $100,000 buy-in marquee event. There was a particularly sick hero-call too:

Vogelsang came into the final table with the chip-lead but he had plenty of tough competition in the shape of the UK’s Benjamin Heath, China’s Xu Liang, Latvia’s Aleks Ponakovs and his eventual heads-up opponent Austria’s Samuel Mullur, with whom he did a bit of ICM business. The result was the third largest of his career, behind his 2016 Super Highroller Bowl victory ($6m) and 2014 One Drop third place finish ($4.5m). 

Vogelsang is a polarising figure in poker owing to his penchant for turtlenecks, scarfs, sunglasses and hoodies. Naturally, his critics seized upon this opportunity to reiterate their issues with his attire and accessories but I would prefer to focus on his skill and execution. He only played six tournaments at Triton Jeju, managing four cashes. That is a marker of his consistency while the Main Event title really reinforces his place among the elite in modern poker. 

Triton Jeju NLH Main Event final table results

1st: Christopher Vogelsang $4,099,975*

2nd: Samuel Muller $3,509,025*

3rd: Ben Heath $2,223,000

4th: Xu Liang $1,795,000

5th: Aleks Ponakovs $1,409,000

6th: Wu Kuisong $1,065,000

7th: Musk Thomas $782,000

8th: Yu Lei $575,000

9th: Ho Bao Qiang $477,000

*after heads-up deal 

Haxton gets the Triton monkey off his back

If there was ever a story of perseverance in the Triton tour, it was that of Haxton. Oodles of deep runs, 33 final table appearances and six runner-up finishes teased the poker legend who had not claimed a single trident effigy. That is, until yesterday, when he took down the $100,000 PLO Main Event, defeating a record field.

The final table was an illustrious affair with GPI #1 Jesse Lonis, Triton ambassador Danny Tang and WPT Global ambassador Nacho Barbero all in pursuit of glory. The eccentric Argentine would run Haxton the hardest, displaying his ‘canine juju’ as he sought his fifth Triton title and third of the festival. In the end though, his turned pair of aces were overtaken by Haxton’s uber-draw in the decisive hand. 

It feels pretty good… There’s a lot of noise in poker”

Was it a symbolic exorcism of a peculiar dry spell, did it feel like he had gotten the monkey off his back or was it just inevitable? Haxton’s comments after the win were characteristically understated. “It feels pretty good… There’s a lot of noise in poker. I’ve won in other places, obviously. I’ve made a lot of final tables, it was bound to work out eventually,” he told Triton commentator and master of ceremonies Ali Nejad. 

Triton Jeju PLO Main Event final table results

1st: Isaac Haxton $2,789,000

2nd: Nacho Barbero $1,897,000

3rd: Jesse Lonis $1,261,000

4th: Robert Cowen $1,037,000

5th: Rahul Byrraju $838,000

6th: Danny Tang $655,000

7th: Klemens Roiter $489,000

8th: Gergö Nagy $362,000

9th: Manuel Stojanović $279,000

Revenge of the pros at Triton Jeju

Triton Jeju was not just the Vogelsang and Haxton show – lots of other notable players captured headlines. Barbero bulldozed his way through the $30,000 PLO/NLH hybrid event, defeating Phil Ivey heads‑up in just three hands. Artur Martirosian, who currently leads the Ivan Leow Player of the Year race, won the $25,000 PLO event. 

The last two stops on the tour have been a bloodbath for poker’s elite as a number of VIPs and businessmen wreaked havoc on the felt. That rot finally stopped in Jeju as several top players notched up big results. Stephen Chidwick chopped the $125,000 NLH event and won the $200,000 Short Deck event for a combined $5.3m, another hefty stack of bills to go on one of poker’s biggest piles. 

Mike Watson and Punnat Punsri both claimed their fifth titles in the $125,000 and $50,000 NLH events for $2.1m and $1.7m, respectively. Kayhan Mokri was victorious in the $150,000 NLH event for $3.8m. Jonathan Jaffe took down the $30,000 NLH event to claim his second Triton trophy. 

Poker can be a tough grind, even for the game’s most seasoned competitors. The swings can be brutal and, for a while, it seemed like the professionals were getting a collective battering by the recreational players on the Triton tour. Class is permanent, however, and for now at least, it seems like some order has been restored. 

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