Norway’s Kayhan Mokri is the latest big winner at the ongoing Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in Monte Carlo. He overcame a star-studded field of 144 entries in Event 2: $30k NLH 8-Handed, the second tournament on the 14-event schedule.
Mokri is no stranger to big wins. The latest victory marked his fourth live title of 2024 and took his live earnings to $7.9 million. He started the year with a victory in the €19,208 + 792 No Limit Hold’em (Event #12) at EPT Barcelona and followed that up with the 2024 EPT Barcelona €100,000 Super High Roller win for €1,372,420. Last month, he took down the $25,000 No Limit Hold’em (Event #35) at EPT Cyprus, winning $ 390,200 in top prize money. Now two years after his Triton debut, he has won his first Triton trophy after outlasting Paulius Vaitiekunas (runner-up for $680,000) in heads-up play.
Talking about his latest victory, Mokri said, “Today was my day, it’s a momentum thing. I had the best cards today and that’s how it is. I finally won one. Now I can relax a bit more.”
Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo $30k NLH 8-Handed Quick Recap
The $30,000 buy-in eight-handed no-limit hold’em event ran over the course of two days from 2nd to 3rd November. The tournament drew a star-studded field of 144 runners, building a prize pool of $4,320,000, which was finally shared by the top 23 finishers all cashing for at least $50,500. There several big names among those who cashed, including Malaysia’s Wai Kin Yong (14th for $67,000), Russia’s Artur Martirosian (15th for $67,000), Canada’s Daniel Dvoress (17th for $60,500), Spain’s Juan Pardo (18th for $54,500), Webster Lim (19th for $54,500), USA’s Dan Smith (20th for $54,500), German superstar Fedor Holz (21st for $50,500), and Kristen Foxen (23rd for $50,500).
Apart from Kristen, one more woman made the money in this event and she was Saya Ono from USA, who finished 13th place for $73,500.
Final Table Action
The final table action was fast and furious with eliminations coming quickly. Mokri started the final table as the shortest stack but played some top-notch poker, taking out seven of his opponents on the path to victory. Mokri got off to a great start, picking up some early pots to survive. He scored the first elimination by busting China’s Zhou Quan in 9th place. He held A-Q which held against A-K.
A little later, Dimitar Danchev fell in eighth, and he was quickly followed by fellow Bulgarian Krasimir Neychev who exited in seventh place.
Marius Kudzmanas was eliminated in sixth place, and fifth-place belonged to recent Poker Hall of Fame inductee Patrik Antonius, whose pocket fives lost to Mokri’s ace-queen. The Monaco resident walked away with $298,000 for his deep run in the tournament.
Mokri continued to dominate and took out Orpen Kisacikoglu in fourth, and Alex Kulev in third place to take a 2:1 chip advantage into the heads-up against Paulius Vaitiekunas. The heads-up did not last long with Mokri winning both of the major hands in the heads-up battle to seal the deal.
On the final hand, Vaitiekunas limped with 5h 4d and Mokri checked his option with 6d 3h. The flop came down 6s 5d 3d. Mokri checked, Vaitiekunas bet 500k, and Mokri raised to 2.2 million. Vaitiekunas then moved all-in for his remaining 10 million stack, and Mokri called. The turn Kd and river Qd ended it all, crowning champion in Mokri. However, it wasn’t all bad for Vaitiekunas as he banked an impressive $680,000 to take his live tournament earnings to over $3.8 million.
Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Event 2: $30k NLH 8-Handed Final Table Payouts
1 – Kayhan Mokri, Norway – $1,005,000
2 – Paulius Vaitiekunas, Lithuania – $680,000
3 – Alex Kulev, Bulgaria – $454,000
4 – Orpen Kisacikoglu, Turkey – $371,000
5 – Patrik Antonius, Finland – $298,000
6 – Marius Kudzmanas, Lithuania – $231,000
7 – Krasimir Neychev, Bulgaria – $171,000
8 – Dimitar Danchev, Bulgaria – $125,000
9 – Zhou Quan, China – $100,000
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