Triton Report
The biggest six-figure buy-in tournament in poker history tonight found a highly unlikely, but highly capable, winner as China’s Huang Wenjie blasted through a supremely talented field to win $5.555 million.
The Triton Super High Roller Series’ visit to Jeju has smashed records during pretty much every event, but with 285 entries to the $100,000 Main Event, the bar was raised higher than even the most optimistic expectations.
That the tournament would then be won by a 35-year-old comparative newcomer with less than $80,000 in documented tournament earnings to date took all by surprise, not least the humble Huang himself.
“It’s amazing, it’s unbelievable,” Huang said, speaking through an interpreter, as he prepared to hoist his Triton Poker Series trophy. “I’m super lucky.”
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