Tang began competing in Triton High Rollers in 2019, and since then, he has become a regular. He has cashed in 36 Triton Poker events and scored five Triton titles, establishing himself as one of the most successful players in Triton Poker. Due to his impressive performance in the Triton Poker Series, he has banked over $17.6 million from high-roller events.

Winning the Ivan Leow Player of the Year

Danny Tang performed exceptionally well in the Ivan Leow POY Season 3. In Season 3, Tang cashed in 19 Triton events, made 13 final table finishes, and won two Triton titles.

Tang was not the only player in contention for the award; another Triton regular, Jason Koon, was also in the running for the Season 3 title, missing it by just 352 points. Danny Tang earned 3,700 Triton POY Points, while Jason Koon finished with 3,348 points.

Jason Koon won the Ivan Leow Player of the Year in Season 2 with 3,858 points. Danny Tang came close to winning it in Season 2 but finished in 4th place with 2,880 points. Indian poker pro Santhosh Suvarna, who finished 16th in Season 2 with 1,689 points, placed 20th in Season 3 with 2,146 points.

Danny Tang collected the award at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club during the ongoing 2024 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo. Triton co-founders Paul Phua and Richard Yong announced the winner and presented the spectacular new Triton Player of the Year Trophy, hand-crafted by the prestigious London silversmiths Fox Silver.

A Quick Look at Danny Tang’s Player Of The Year Performances

Triton Poker Montenegro Performances 

• $50k Pot Limit Omaha: 7th place for $146,000
• $100k PLO Main Event: 6th place, for $495,000
• $100K NLH 8-Handed: 5th place, for $752,000
• $50K NLH 8-Handed: 15th place, for $119,200
• $40K NLH 7-Handed Mystery Bounty: 7th place, for $114,000 + $100,000 bounty
• $25K NLH 8-Handed: 6th place, for $180,500

Triton Poker Jeju Performances 

• $50k Pot Limit Omaha: 10th place, for $92,500
• $150k NLH 8-Handed: 11th place, for $351,000
• $20k NLH 8-Handed: 11th place, for $78,700

Triton Poker Monte Carlo Performances 

• $50k Pot Limit Omaha: 2nd place, for $664,000
• $30k Pot Limit Omaha Bounty: 3rd place, for $298,000
• $50k NLH 8-Handed: 1st place, for $1,580,000
• $100k NLH 8-Handed: 3rd place, for $1,296,000
• $200k NLH Invitational: 6th place, for $875,000

Triton Poker London Performances 

• $25k Short Deck Ante-Only: 2nd place, for $193,800
• $60k NLH 8-Handed: 1st place, for $1,600,000
• $200k NLH 8-Handed: 5th place, for $1,247,000
• $50k NLH 8-Handed: 9th place, for $134,000
• $25k NLH GGMillion$: 21st place, for $44,500

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Perkusic’s previous biggest score was $265,746, which he earned for his EPT Barcelona €10k Pot-Limit Omaha event victory in 2022. The latest win took his live earnings to more than $2.738 million.

WSOP 2024 $50,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha Quick Recap

The WSOP 2024 Event #79: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller ran over the course of four days and drew 187 entries (a slight dip in attendance compared to this event in 2023), generating a prize pool of $8,929,250. The top 29 players were paid out, with Dan Smith, Dylan Weisman, Richard Gryko, Dan Shak, Noah Schwartz, Anthony Zinno, Jason Mercier, Isaac Kempton, Viktor Blom, Cary Katz, Sean Winter, Ben Lamb, Brian Rast, and David Benyamine being the big names to finish in the money.

The third and final day began with just five players returning to the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Hong Kong’s Danny Tang started the day as the overall chip leader with a stack of 20,725,000 chips. Indian high roller Santhosh Suvarna, who made history by winning the WSOP $250K Super High Roller a few days back, entered the day as the shortest stack with a stack of 4,850,000 chips. Suvarna was hunting for his second bracelet of the series but unfortunately he hit the rail after only a few hands. The Indian high-stakes pro got it in with aces on the jack-high flop, but ran into the set of Perkusic and got no help on the turn and river. Suvarna was awarded $503,085 for his remarkable fifth place finish.  

This marked his fourth and second biggest cash of the ongoing series, following $5,415,152, which he earned a few days back for his thumping victory in the $250K Super High Roller tournament.

Dutch Pot-Limit Omaha giant Ronald Keijzer  then clashed in a big pot. Keijzer ran his two pairs into Tang’s queen full house and exited in fourth place ($692,232). With over half the chips in play, Tang was the massive chip leader but was soon dethroned by Perkusic who won some pots against the leader to close the gap.

Perkusic eventually overtook the lead when he knocked out two-time bracelet winner Jim Collopy in third place ($973,882). His pocket aces held against the pocket kings of Collopy preflop, setting up the heads up play for the title with Tang.

Heads Up For The Title

Perkusic had a slight lead over Tang at the start of the heads-up and quickly began working on extending it. While Tang momentarily overtook the lead early in the heads-up but could not maintain his momentum. Perkusic was able to apply the pressure and slowly increase his advantage until the final hand arose. Holding Kd 6h 6s 5d against Perkusic’s As Ks 9c 2c , Tang shoved all-in on the Kh 9d 6d flop with bottom set against the top two pairs of Perkusic. The turn bricked out, but the river 9h gave Perkusic the superior full house to win the pot and his first WSOP bracelet.

WSOP 2024 Event #79: $50,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Results

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