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The high stakes poker world is hardly spinning around like a seagull, right-wing smashed by a serial killer’s slingshot, but boy oh boy has the Phil Galfond challenge attracted more eyeballs than a strip poker livestream.

On November 19, in a bid to make Run It Once Poker more crop circle than Arctic Circle, Phil Galfond, issued a high stakes heads-up challenge to every single player in the universe.

Galfond wanted to face rival online poker training coaches in sessions of €100/€200 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) and offered similar but negotiable terms for all other forms of poker to mere mortals.

With the tap turned on, a trickle soon became a tsunami with a high volume flicking in their interests with the zeal of a chain smoker flicking his dimps into an ashtray.

The first of these epic heads-up battles take place at 8 am (PST), January 22, where Galfond squares off, fingers and thumbs, with ‘VeniVidi1993.’ The pair will compete at stakes of €100/€200 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO), four hours a day, five days a week, until they reach a ceiling of 25,000 hands.

‘Veni Vidi1993,’ is the bookies favourite with PokerShares offering odds of 1.74, with Galfond an outside bet at 2.13, There’s also a side bet up for grabs with Galfond’s €200k versus VeniVidi’s €100k.

You can watch the entire squabble on Twitch/RunItOncePoker.

Here are the rest of the jigsaw pieces.

No dates on these, yet.

The Action

ActionFreak – €150/€300 PLO over 15k hands.
Jungleman – €100/€200 PLO over 7.5k hands
Brandon Adams – $100/$200 PLO over 40hrs of live poker
Chance Kornuth – €100/€200 PLO over 25k hands
Bill Perkins & The Thirst Lounge – €100/€200 PLO over 50k hands or a €400k loss

Side Bet Info

VeniVidi1993 – Side bet of Phil’s €200k to VeniVidi’s €100k
ActionFreak – Side bet of Phil’s €150k to ActionFreak’s €150k
Jungleman – TBD
Brandon Adams – Side Bet of Phil’s $150k to Brandon’s $100k
Chance Kornuth – Side Bet of Phil’s €1m to Chance’s €250k
Bill Perkins & The Thirst Lounge – Side Bet of Phil’s $800k to Bill’s $200k

PokerShares Odds

Galfond (2.16) v VeniVidi1993 (1.73)
Galfond (2.25) v ActionFreak (1.66)
Galfond (1.91) v Jungleman (1.95)
Galfond (1.60) v Adams (2.40)

Please Sir, Can I Have Some More

There’s still time for more action.

With only Chance Kornuth taking up the online coaching challenge, it seems the attention has swerved to an online poker room battle. Rob Yong surfaced first, accepting that he would have ‘little chance of winning,’ but respects Galfond’s PR initiative, and would like to support it.

Negotiations between the RunItOnce Poker founder and partypoker associate are currently underway.

Then Luke Schwartz got involved in the gob on gob action.

A Galfond versus Schwartz battle would boost the live stream for sure, and according to an interview with PokerNews, aired on January 13, Galfond believes the match will go ahead.

One dynamite match shelved would have pitted Run It Once Poker with GGPoker. In the wake of Luke Schwartz’s early Twitter back and forth with Galfond, Bryn Kenney got involved, and it ended with Galfond offering Kenney a seat.

Kenney, however, declined.

We’ll bring you further news when we receive it.

It’s the event that changed poker’s landscape.

It intimidates.

It seduces.

It turns mild-mannered men and women into war machines. 

The Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) has taken a vacation. Destination, London, and by the time you would have read this, the action in the £250,000 buy-in event would have already begun. 

With 17-hours to go before kick-off, Poker Central is keeping their powder dry on who will be in the field. We know there is a 49-player cap, with 30 seats subject to a random draw, and 19 reserved for Poker Central and Aspers figurines to handpick the final bamboozlers and manipulators. 

But not a single name.

Nada.

So without a cast, I’m going to take a punt at the likely winners, should they be (a) in London, and (b) lucky enough to get a seat.

Bryn Kenney

Bryn Kenney
Bryn Kenney

Bryn Kenney is in London, so I am reasonably confident we will see the man who makes bathrobes look cool competing in the game. Kenney’s goal is world domination, and events like this are in the war plan. Last month, Kenney finished runner-up to Aaron Zhang in the £1m buy-in Triton Million, but he banked the lion share of the money after agreeing upon a deal that saw him net £16.9m. 

Kenney deposed Justin Bonomo at the top of the All-Time Money List after that win ($55.5m). It’s worth noting that ahead of the event, Kenney was the 2019 Money Leader with more than $9m taking from felts across the globe. Wins include the Aussie Millions Main Event, and two Triton titles in Montenegro. 

Justin Bonomo

Justin Bonomo wins short deck main event in Triton SHR Series London 2019
Justin Bonomo

Justin Bonomo held the high stakes poker scene to ransom in 2018, winning more than $25.4m (a record until Kenney’s 2019 exploits). Included in that haul were victories in the SHRB Las Vegas for $5m and the SHRB China for $4,8m. Add his win in the $1m Big One for One Drop, and we may not have a cast for this one, but we do have a man more than equipped to play the role of End Boss. 

I interviewed Bonomo in London at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series, and the man glowed. I got the impression that he could make sitting cross-legged look easy, and it showed on the felt winning the £100,000 Short-Deck Main Event for £2.67m. He was never going to improve upon his 2018 haul. However, it’s worth noting that the $5m he’s already secured this year, is his second-best annual performance of his life. 

Stephen Chidwick

Stephen Chidwick is the Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1, and the man his peers believe to be the best in the world. They stitched that label into his hoodie many years ago, the only difference of late, is he’s turning 2nd and 3rd place finishes into wins. 

The UK-born pro is one of the most consistent performers in the world. This year alone he has won titles at the US Poker Open, the British Poker Open (BPO) and captured his first gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Include his epic performance at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in London (where he finished fourth in the big one for more than £4.4m), and who would bet against him.

Rainer Kempe

Rainer Kempe

Rainer Kempe has the t-shirt.

The German star conquered a field of 49-players in the 2016 SHRB, collecting a career-high $5m after beating his buddy Fedor Holz, heads-up. Until last week, Kempe had led the GPI Player of the Year (POY) for eight-weeks, until Sean Winter took his crown. 

Kempe has won five tournaments this year and sharpened his toolkit by finishing runner-up to Sam Soverel, in a £25,100 No-Limit Hold’em event at the BPO. 

Charlie Carrel

Charlie Carrel Wins Triton London Event 3
Charlie Carrel

It was interesting to watch a recent VLOG from Charlie Carrel explaining his omission from the Triton Million London event. Carrel explained how his backer, Orpen Kisacikoglu, bypassed him, because he hadn’t played poker for six-months, and he felt the game had passed him by. 

Carrel responded by winning the £50,000 No-Limit Hold’em at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in London for £1.3m. He then travelled to Rozvadov and finished 7/510 in the MILLIONS Europe Main Event for €130,000 (he went into the final table with the chip lead). Then he turned up at the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona, making the final table of two €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em events. 

Steve O’Dwyer

Steve O'Dwyer
Steve O’Dwyer

Despite financial metrics being an unreliable indicator of form, Steve O’Dwyer’s 2019 is annus horribilis. The American star has pulled $1.5m (gross) from the live tables, but that’s his lowest haul since 2012. 

Financial results aside, O’Dwyer, re-entered the GPI Top #10 after making the final table of the €50,000 and €100,000 No-Limit Hold’em events at EPT Barcelona. He also picked up two runner-up finishes in the BPO. 

The Dark Horses

Luc Greenwood

Luc Greenwood competed in 12 Triton events without cashing before making money, finishing runner-up to Linus Lloeliger, in the £25,000 No-Limit Hold-em Six-Handed Turbo at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in London. He then went to EPT Barcelona and finished fourth in the €50,000 No-Limit Hold’em before winning the opening £10,500 No-Limit Hold’em at the BPO. 

Danny Tang

Danny Tang has been a revelation since turning up at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in Montenegro and leaving with more than $2m in prize money. Tang proceeded to win his first WSOP bracelet, winning the $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $1.6m, and made two high roller final tables at EPT Barcelona, including a third in the €100,000. 

Sam Grafton

Like Tang, Grafton is another player who has entered the high stakes stratum in sparkling form. The Squid made money in the $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em during the WSOP, finishing 11th, and then finished 13th in the $100,000. Grafton then finished 5/510 in the MILLIONS Europe Main Event in Rozvadov for €220,000, and later earned the most significant score of his career, finishing runner-up to Sergi Reixach in the €100,000 at EPT Barcelona for €1.3m.

The SHRB London starts on Friday 13 September and ends two days later. 

As of July 2018, there were 6,339 comets playing tag in our solar system. Today, that number has increased and will continue rising as there is a trillion scooting around our outer solar system. 

Despite this whopping great number of icy trailblazers, only one, a year is visible to the naked eye. 

This year, Stephen Chidwick is that comet.

Poker players have been saying for years that Chidwick is a little bit special. These days, he’s proving it, racking up titles for fun, and as I type this, he sits on top of the Global Poker Index (GPI) World Rankings. 

Chidwick has been the king for four-weeks after deposing Alex Foxen, and the pair have exchanged the title of ‘World’s Best Live Tournament Player’ for the better part of 17-months. 

Rainer Kempe and Bryn Kenney are doing their best to close the gap, but you suspect Foxen and Chidwick will go toe-to-toe for some while yet. And Chidwick manages this while changing nappies, cleaning up puke, and pushing a stroller around the neighbourhood at ungodly hours. 

Foxen hasn’t picked up any points since securing 320.18 for finishing 40th in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. He did cash three times at the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona, including a fourth in a €25,000 event, but none of the scores qualified. 

Chidwick was able to eke ahead after earning 430 points during the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in London for making the final table of both £100,000 Main Events (No-Limit Hold’em & Short Deck). Chidwick also finished fourth in the Triton Million £1m buy-in event, but the score didn’t qualify. The man from Deal put in another solid performance during the British Poker Open (BPO), cashing in four events, winning one, but he picked up zero GPI points because field sizes were too small.

High Rollers Rule

Sifting through the GPI Top 20, only three people don’t compete in the high stakes live tournament scene regularly: Jeremy Ausmus (#10), Joseph Cheong (#12), and Shaun Deeb (#18). 

Steve O’Dwyer re-enters the Top 10 after cashing three times at EPT Barcelona, including the final table of the €50,000 and €100,000 High Rollers, both of which earned him GPI points. O’Dwyer maintained that form in the British Poker Open (BPO) finishing runner-up in a £10,000 and a £25,000 event but didn’t pick up any points for his efforts. 

Current World Rankings

1. Stephen Chidwick 

2. Alex Foxen

3. Rainer Kempe

4. Bryn Kenney

5. Sean Winter

6. Sam Greenwood

7. Manig Loeser

8. Steve O’Dwyer

9. Ali Imsirovic

10. Jeremy Ausmus

2019 GPI Player of the Year

Sean Winter

Sean Winter overtook Rainer Kempe at the head of the 2019 GPI Player of the Year rankings. Winter’s shove ends an eight-week run with Kempe at the top. In a recent interview with yours truly over at CalvinAyre.com, Kempe confirmed that winning the GPI POY would be an honour, but only believes his equity of winning the title is at 10-15%.

“It doesn’t make much sense to chase it,” Kempe told me. “There are 20 people in competition for it. Being in the first place right now doesn’t necessarily mean you have the best chance to win it because of the scoring system. If I had to guess my equity of winning this year, it would be 10-15% or less, and that’s not the kind of equity that’s going to push me to chase it. 

“If the situation changes at the end of the year, and it’s only me, Manig Loeser and Bryn Kenney who can win it, and I am one big score away from taking it down – I will do whatever it takes to win it because winning it would be a great achievement.”

Winter won the $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) Championship in August, beating 809-entrants to rack up a $698,175 score. Winter may have the lead, but he has to be another outside bet. Winter’s partner is expecting a baby, and that means Winter is more likely to be found in Mothercare than a poker room. 

Current Player of the Year Rankings

1. Sean Winter 

2. Rainer Kempe

3. Stephen Chidwick

4. Sam Greenwood

5. Bryn Kenney

6. Shannon Shorr

7. Manig Loeser

8. Ali Imsirovic

9. Danny Tang

10. James Romero

Top Female Performers

World Rankings

1. Kristen Bicknell

2. Maria Ho

3. Loni Harwood

4. Jessica Dawley

5. Li Yan

6. Marua Lampropulos

7. Lauren Roberts

8. Natalie Teh

9. Wendy Freedman

10 Ana Marquez

Movers and Shakers

Chris Hunichen

Chris Hunichen is the biggest mover in the high stakes scene, shifting 162 places to #61, after picking up close to 700 points for finishing 9/94 in a $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo at the SHRPO, and winning the 540-entrant €10,300 High Roller at the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona for €841,345.

Chin Wei Lim climbed 110 places to reach #184 in the rankings. Lim currently sits second behind Michael Soyza in highly competitive Malaysian rankings. Ivan Leow (#230), and Paul Phua (#284) are the two other Malaysian players occupying oxygen in the GPI 300. Lim has made four final tables in 2019, including two high rolling finishes at Triton London, and two at EPT Barcelona. Lim also played in and cashed in the £1m buy-in Triton Million, finishing tenth for £1.1m.

Another big mover is Juan Pardo. The Spaniard rose 101 places to rest in the #192 position after an incredibly consistent display in EPT Barcelona. Pardo won the €25,000 and €50,000 Single-Day High Rollers, back-to-back, and came fourth in a second €25,000 High Roller, accumulating €1.8m in gross prize money. Pardo currently sits #5 in the Spanish GPI rankings behind high rollers Sergio Aido (1), Sergi Reixach (2), and Adrian Mateos (3). 

Finnish high stakes stalwart, Juha Helppi, broke back into the GPI 300 sitting in #236 place. Helppi cashed in two high rollers at EPT Barcelona, finishing runner-up to Timothy Adams in a €10,200 Six-Handed event. 

James Chen had a stunning WSOP, making the final tables of the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, and the $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em for a combined haul of more than $1m in gross winnings. The man from Taiwan followed that up with two ITM finishes at EPT Barcelona, making the final table of €25,000 event. Chen breaks into the GPI 300, nestling in #269.

Finally, Triton regular, Peter Jetten, also made it into the GPI 300. The Canadian star currently sits in #272 place after making seven final tables in 2019 with his seventh-place finish in a £25,000 Short Deck event in London his most recent. 

William Wordsworth penned a poem called ‘The Happy Warrior’, and a stanza that feels apt this morning.

Forever, and to noble deeds give birth,
Or, he must fall, to sleep without his fame,
And leave a dead unprofitable name –
Finds comfort in himself and his cause;
And, while the mortal mist of gathering, draws
His breath in confidence of Heaven’s applause:
This is the happy Warrior; this is He
That every man in arms should wish to be.

Bryn Kenney has won the AUD 10,600 Aussie Millions Main Event. Kenney, who vowed never to leave a dead unprofitable name. Kenney, who finds comfort in himself and his cause – to sit upon the throne reserved for the person who wins the most money playing live tournaments.

Bryn Kenney Wins Aussie MIllions

This is the happy Warrior; this is He.

That every man in arms should wish to be.

It was hardly phonebooth poker, but the period between 2012 – 2015 saw the attendance in the Aussie Millions Main Event drop below the 700-mark. The once mighty redwood of poker in the Southern hemisphere had turned into a weeping willow. 

But the Aussie Millions has strong roots. 

Who doesn’t have the image of Gus Hansen beating Jimmy Fricke, heads-up, to win the title in 2007 seared into our minds?

Last year, the worm turned, with Toby Lewis returning to the South of England with close to $1.5m in his back pocket after outlasting a record 800-entrants, and this year they beat that number by a further 22. 

Here is how the final table shaped up.

Final Table Chip Counts

Seat 1: Mike Del Vecchio – 5,465,000 (109 bb)

Seat 2: Andrew Hinrichsen – 5,300,000 (106 bb)

Seat 3: Hamish Crawshaw – 3,640,000 (73 bb)

Seat 4: Gyeong Byeong Lee – 1,540,000 (31 bb)

Seat 5: Matthew Wakeman – 4,010,000 (80 bb)

Seat 6: Bryn Kenney – 920,000 (18 bb)

Seat 7: Clinton Taylor – 3,845,000 (77 bb)

Bryn Kenney was the most experienced player, but he was also the favourite to hit the rail first with a shove or fold 18 big blinds. If you had asked his seven opponents to seal one request to the Poker Gods in an envelope, they would have all read the same.

“Don’t double up Bryn Kenney.”

Those envelopes never reached the Gods.

Kenney laddered into a seventh-place score by default after Hamish Crawshaw became the first person to slip, fatally, in the bathtub. Andrew Hinrichsen picked up AJ; Crawshaw QQ and the two went at it, tooth and nail, with AJ surviving the five card dust-up.

Then Kenney got moving, doubling up through Mike Del Vecchio AJ>A2, and then through Gyeong Byeong Lee AK>JJ. Lee tried to put a bandaid on that wound, but it wouldn’t stick. Lee picked up AK and drove his stake deep into the ground. Hinrichsen’s JT picked up a shovel, dug up that stake, and pushed it through Lee’s heart. 

Mathew Wakeman was next to exit the competition when he ran pocket queens into the pocket aces of Clinton Taylor, and here’s how the final quartet shaped up.

1. Hinrichsen – 11,325,000

2. Taylor – 6,435,000

3. Kenney – 4,800,000

4. Del Vecchio- 2,025,000

Taylor fell first when his AK failed to find the support it needed to batter the pocket nines of Hinrichsen, and the pub grinder who qualified via a $130 satellite moonwalked to the cash desk to pick up his  $350,417 prize.

With three players remaining, Kenney needed to apply some elbow grease.

1. Hinrichsen – 15,365,000

2. Kenney – 4,870,000

3. Del Vecchio – 4,830,000

The first player to make a run for the title was Mike Del Vecchio who picked up quad sixes in a hand that saw Hinrichsen double him up after rivering a straight. Next, it was Kenney who took control, winning a series of sizeable pots to move into the lead. And that’s the way it went for a hundred hands – the lead changing hands like a game of passing the parcel.

Then the game paused.

The three sat down to negotiate a deal. 

Kenney wanted the title.

Hinrichsen and Del Vecchio gave it to him.

The tournament ended.

Not exactly ’The Sixth Sense’ ending the fans would have liked, but its one that Kenney knew in his heart was always going to be the eventual outcome because he is the happy warrior. 

But could he sleep without his fame?

For one night?

“I’m just going to be the champion, and not think about poker!” Kenney told PokerNews. 

I guess so. 

Final Table Results

1. Bryn Kenney – $923,269*

2. Mike Del Vecchio – $922,953*

3. Andrew Hinrichsen – $796,410*

4. Clinton Taylor – $350,417

5. Mathew Wakeman – $275,908

6. Gyeong Byeong Lee – $224,180

7. Hamish Crawshaw – $175,571

*Indicates a three-way deal

Anton Morgenstern Wins the AUD 25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

Anton Morgenstern has won the first-ever AUD 25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) event at the Aussie Millions.

The German star defeated 67-entrants to win a career-high $382,061 after climbing the steep steps of a 4:1 chip deficit, heads-up against Farid Jattin. 

Jattin was a tour de force during the final table, eliminating half of the field; true to form, after flying into Melbourne on the back of a 7/1039 finish in the $25,000 PokerStars Player’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship in the Bahamas for $746,000.

Morgenstern began heads-up with a 715,000 v  2,600,000 chip deficit, but quickly evened the score with two critical double-ups. It was at this time that Jattin suggested the pair chat about a deal. 

“No.”

Morgenstern refused because he had the heat, and in the next hand he flopped a full house and doubled into a 3,100,000 v 250,000 chip lead. Jattin doubled once but finally hit the rail when the pair both flopped two pair hands, with Morgenstern’s that little bit better. 

The victory is Morgenstern’s second of his career, and both came in PLO events after winning a 35-entrant €1,100 PLO side event at the PokerStars Championship in Monte Carlo in April 2017.

Morgenstern’s two big scores before this win came in the 2013 and 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Events winning $285,408 and $262,574. The German star also made the final table of the Marathon last year finishing 7/1637 for $86,631.

ITM Results

1. Anton Morgenstern – $382,061

2. Farid Jattin – $243,130

3. Tobias Ziegler – $162,086

4. Daniel Demicki – $127,354

5. Jarryd Godena – $92,621

6. Max Lehamnski – $81,043

7. Alex Foxen – $69,466

As we wrote about, many of the best players in the poker world arrived in Manila to play the Triton series in February.

The first tournament played over the first two days was the smaller of the two when it came to prize money. But it had a great field and a really exciting finish between two of the best players in the world. The third day though saw the start of the big one. There were 39 buy ins (from 29 players) into the HK$1,000,000 (approx. USD 128,800) main event. Would Dan Colman be able to repeat his good performance? Or would we see different faces at the final table than the ones we saw at the 6 max in the first couple of days? The answer was – as so often in poker – the latter. Different days, different outcomes.

The Main Event was a three-day affair. The first two days were all about getting to the money – whittling the 29 players down to the final six.

And some big names didn’t survive the process. 6-Max champion Dan Colman, poker legend Phil Ivey and the 2016 one drop winner Elton Tsang all didn’t make the final six.
There were two clear chip leaders, and therefore favourites, at the start of the money levels: Sergio Aido from Spain with 2,490,000 and Germany’s Koray Aldemir with 2,420,000, both a long way ahead of their four rivals. Would they be the last two standing? In third was Wai Kin Yong (1,705,000) who won the November 2016 version of this same tournament. Dan Cates (1,475,000) was also there (as he so often is), as were Devan Tang (1,045,000) and Bryn Kenney (615,000), who finished second in 2016 to Wai Kin.
With those sorts of numbers Bryn Kenney was clearly the most vulnerable with his smaller stack. He had just 20 big blinds. Would he play safe or go for broke? But, actually, he wasn’t the first player at the final table to go to the rail. That, very surprisingly, was Wai Kin Yong, previous winner and third chip leader.
Yong had been playing a lot of hands – losing pots as often as winning them – so he was unable to make much ground on Aido and Aldemir who were pulling away from the rest of the field.  And he came out on the wrong side of a couple of hands with Bryn Kenney, who was valiantly getting his way into the game despite starting at such a huge chip disadvantage to the rest of the finalists.
In fact, he wasn’t the next person to fall away either. That was Devan Tang. He flopped two pairs, but was blown away by Aldemir who made an Ace High straight with a ten on the turn.
Bryn Kenney’s run did end, however: he was the next to go. Having started the final table with just 615,000 chips he had done incredibly well to get his way up to over a million. But he lost out to Cates on a close hand.
That win for Cates meant the last three players all had similarly sized stacks – 3.5m for Aldemir, 3.2m for Aido and 2.9m for Cates. Cates had done very well to pull his way back to almost level terms with Aido and Aldemir. And he was feeling confident enough to reject a prize money sharing deal between the last three at the start of the 3-way hands, proclaiming “I feel like a gamble!!”
He may have regretted that a few moments later, coming out second best in a series of hands, first to Aldemir, then in a big one and a half million chip pot to Aido. Cates then did agree a deal with the other two – which meant that he would take 28% of the winnings, Aldemir 35% and Aido the remaining 37% no matter the result from then on. Good work for all. But there was still the trophy and HK$400,000 the three players kept aside to make things interesting.
Just as well that Cates struck the deal, as he busted out a few hands later, as his king jack off suit lost out to Aido’s king queen suited with the kicker.

So we were left with Aido and Aldemir, the two chip leaders when the final table started.

Aido had a 6 million to 3.7 million chip lead at the start of the heads-up, but that didn’t end up being the insurmountable advantage it appeared to be. Aldemir soon caught up – taking two pots in the first ten minutes of heads up play. He never looked back, taking pot after pot from Aido – and within the hour the trophy was his. What a comeback! An amazing hour of play from the German. Though he has had a string of good results since the summer of last year, this was Aldemir’s first major title in his career. We’re sure there will be more.
It was really exciting action, with some of the top players from around the world. And although we saw some big bets and pots, it wasn’t just about the winnings. Like the One Drop, the Triton Poker Series has a charity aspect too. The series donates a percentage of the prize pool to a number of charities, including: women’s cancer support group, project pink and the Red Cross. Giving in poker is something that players are increasingly passionate about. Players really want to do something outside the poker community, and to donate to causes that they feel strongly about. Winning means a lot to these players – but it isn’t everything.