The men with the money are showing up to South Korea’s largest island Jeju for the latest Triton Poker Super High Roller Series. Record fields have been broken several times, and while names like Jeremy Ausmus, Joao Vieira and Bryn Kenney rose to the top, plenty of so-called amateurs got their licks in.
Bedell rings the bell
Tom-Aksel Bedell won his first Triton Poker Super High Roller title in the $25,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha in Jeju that attracted 117 entries who built a prize pool of $2,925,000. At 64, Bedell became the second-oldest player to win a title on the exclusive tour, just one year behind Richard Yong.
He’s been playing on the tour since 2022, and the $709,000 he won for winning this event that had players like Phil Ivey (fifth for $213,000), Eric Seidel (seventh for $123,000), and series Event #3 winner Ausmus (12th for $53,000) going deep was his largest lifetime cash.
“I love these tournaments for sure,” Bedell told Ali Nejad in his post-game interview, mentioning some previous hotel booking issues had stopped him coming to other Triton events. “Now they are forgiven, and I’m back!”
What he loves is the game of Pot Limit Hold’em. Although he has plenty of success paying limit and no-limit hold’em, it’s obvious PLO is his game. It was just in January when Bedell won the PLO Grand Slam Championship in Tirana, a €10,300 event that paid Bedell €438,000.
He got into that event for free by being the guy with the most re-buys in the series opening event. It took eight re-buys into the €5,200 event for him to get the bonus.
The top five finishers were:
1 – Tom-Aksel Bedell, Norway – $709,000
2 – Shi Ning Dan, China – $486,000
3 – Richard Gryko, UK – $320,000
4 – Eelis Parssinen, Finland – $264,000
5 – Phil Ivey, USA – $213,000
Gergo Nagy takes PLO title
Another PLO specialist, Hungary’s Gergo Nagy, was the winner of the $50,000 contest that attracted 112 entries who generated a prize pool of $5.6 million. Nagy took the lions share of $1,360,000 for winning his first Triton Poker Super High Roller title.
Again, like all TPSH fields, this one contained a bucketful of the world’s best poker players, including Adam Hendrix, who popped the payout bubble in 19th ($75,000), Isaac Haxton (15th for $90,000), Patrik Antonius (eighth for $174,000), Eelis Pärssinen (seventh for $235,000), Ausmus (sixth for $318,000) and PLO specialists Joni Jouhkimainen, who was going for his first title, but stalled in second for $930,000.
The top five finishers of the event were:
1 – Gergo Nagy, Hungary – $1,360,000
2 – Joni Jouhkimainen, Finland – $930,000
3 – Gruffudd Jones, UK – $611,000
4 – Xu Liang, China – $505,000
5 – Tom Vogelsang, Netherlands – $408,000
Two more PLO contests at Triton Poker Super High Roller in Jeju are set finish this week. The $100,000 PLO Main Event and its $9.1 million prize pool will conclude today, while a $30,000 PLO Bounty Quattro contest is in its Day 1. Click here to follow the action.
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