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With the world on the brink of a third world war, it’s a perfect time to lock yourself in a casino for 12-days, and forget that the world even exists. 

Triton has your back. 

The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series returns after a six-month hiatus, and the first event comes to you live from Shinwa World in the South Korean island of Jeju. 

From February 10-22, the world’s elite poker player players (both professionals and non-professionals alike) will clash in a series of tournaments and cash games that will blow your mind.

Bandages, casts and defibrillator paddles at the ready. 

There are 11-events, six more than Triton’s Korean debut in 2018, and 4 more than 2019’s clod of earth raising event. Buy-ins range between HKD 250,000 (USD 32,000) and HKD 1m (USD 128,000), and there are two at the top end of that range.

– Event #6: HKD 1m Triton Jeju No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) Main Event (14-16 Feb).

– Event #11: HKD 1m Triton Jeju Short-Deck Main Event (20-22 Feb).

Players can expect the following formats:

NLHE 8-Handed

NLHE 6-Handed

NLHE 6-Handed Turbo

NLHE/Short-Deck Mix Turbo

Short-Deck Ante-Only

Short-Deck Ante-Only Turbo

Here is the full schedule:

Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju Honours List

2018

HKD 100,000 Short-Deck – Nick Schulman ($271,974)

HKD 500,000 Short-Deck – Ivan Leow ($1,079,367)

HKD 500,000 NLHE 6-Max – David Peters ($1,118,484)

HKD 1m Short-Deck Main Event – Kenneth Kee ($2,867,009)

HKD 2m NLHE Main Event – Mikita Badziakouski ($5,257,027)

2019

HKD 250,000 Short-Deck – Justin Bonomo ($586,114)

HKD 500,000 Short-Deck – Devan Tang ($1,239,798)

HKD 500,000 NLHE 6-Max – Michael Soyza ($1,420,581)

HKD 1m Short-Deck Main Event – Jason Koon ($2,840,945)

HKD 2m NLHE Main Event – Timothy Adams ($3,536,550)

HKD 1m NLHE – Jason Koon ($973,306)

HKD 1m Short-Deck – Timofey Kuznetsov ($1,859,970)

After Jeju; Montenegro and London

The Triton team has announced a further two 2020 events post-Jeju. The first comes from the Maestral Resort & Casino in Budva, Montenegro May 4-18, before heading to London Jul 29 – Aug 13. England’s capital was the site of Triton’s last event. Aaron Zang won the record-breaking £1m buy-in Triton Million: A Helping Hand for Charity for £13.7m after cutting a heads-up deal that saw Bryn Kenney collect £16.9m to shift him to the top of the All-Time Money List with more than $55m in live tournament earnings.



The world’s top poker pros battled for the coveted Triton SHR Series Main Event title. Paul Phua was in the thick of the action

Paul Phua Sam Trickett

The Triton Super High Roller Series in beautiful Montenegro ended in a heads-up battle between German poker pro Manig Loeser and my good friend, Richard Yong. After an hour of ups and downs, Richard’s stack was crippled when he ran his pocket sevens into Manig’s flopped two pair. The very next hand sealed Richard’s fate: with A-4 against Manig’s J-2, the Jack came on the flop to give Manig the first prize of HK$16,877,600 (US$2.16m).

What a poker tournament this was! The high buy-ins, and the attractions of the recently reopened Maestral Resort and Casino, brought in some of the world’s top poker pros – as you can see from my photograph!

The $100m poker selfie

#pokerselfie

In the top row, left to right, are Andrew Robl, Fedor Holz, Dan “Jungleman” Cates and Wai Kin Yong.

In the middle row, left to right, are Sam Trickett, Steve O’Dwyer, Koray Aldemir, Timofey “Trueteller” Kuznetsov.

In the bottom row, left to right, are Winfred Yu, myself and Richard Yong.

Someone added up the combined live tournament earnings of the players in the picture. They told me it came to about $100 million.

The only pity is that my good friend Tom Dwan came just a few minutes too late to join the group shot!

Tom Dwan, Jungleman and Sam Trickett

I don’t believe you would find such a high concentration of poker pros anywhere in the world as we had at the Triton SHR Series. At one stage Tom Dwan was seated directly across the table from Jungleman, with England’s No 1 poker player, Sam Trickett, in between them!

I myself had the US pro Steve O’Dwyer on my left at the beginning of the tournament; then I had John Juanda, who ended up in fourth place; and then the chip leader at the time, “Shanghai Wang” Qiang. I had to rebuy twice, but still did not manage to make the final table against such stiff competition!

The good thing about poker is that there are always cash games when you bust out of tournament, and those were going strong well into the night.

And there is always another tournament, too! Another Triton SHR Series is being planned for Macau this October, and I know it will not be long before it returns to Montenegro.

Interviews for Paul Phua Poker

Fedor Holz Maestral

I hope you have enjoyed the tournament photos and updates on my Twitter feed, @PaulPhuaPoker. My video crew have also been shooting some fascinating strategy interviews with the poker pros here. Some of them, like Jungleman and Tom Dwan, have featured in previous Paul Phua Poker School videos. Many more will be new to my website, including some very famous players. I can’t wait to share them with you, once the hours of film have been edited.

Maestral casino Montenegro

But for now, this is goodbye from the Maestral Resort and Casino in Montenegro, with its wonderful beaches, glorious sunsets and warm, shimmering sea. Plenty of fish in there – not so many in the Triton SHR Series poker tournaments!