Triton Million for Charity

The Triton Million for Charity was a poker tournament that took place in London from August 1-3, 2019 . With a buy-in of over £ 1 million , it was the most expensive poker tournament in the world to date.

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The event was held at the London Hilton on Park Lane and hosted by the Triton Super High Roller Series . The tournament series partypoker Live acted as sponsor . The variant No Limit Hold'em was played . The buy-in was £ 1,050,000, of which £ 50,000 was donated to various charities. At the start of the tournament, the buy-in was equivalent to the equivalent of 1.1 million euros , replacing the Big One for One Drop , which was held in 2016, as the most expensive poker tournament, which required a million euros as an entry fee. The participants had to be invited to the tournament, whereby the organizers asked recreational players or business people as players and they in turn could select a professional poker player for the tournament. In the first six levels of blindness, each lasting an hour, the recreational and professional players sat at separate tables.

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The entire tournament was broadcast free of charge via the live streaming platform Twitch and, in cooperation with Poker Central, on the live stream platform PokerGO, which is actually paid for. The event was commentated by Jeff Gross , Randy Lew , Ali Nejad , Nick Schulman and Lex Veldhuis . In addition was Liv Boeree responsibility as a presenter and player interviews.

Attendees

A woman played the tournament with Sosia Jiang . The following 54 players took part:

Recreational player  Bobby Baldwin  Stanley Choi  Alfred DeCarolis  Tony g  Sosia Jiang  Cary Katz  Örpen Kısacıkoğlu  Ivan Leow  Chin Lim  Pat Madden  Andrew Pantling  Bill Perkins  Paul Phua  Ferdinand Putra

Rick Salomon  Talal Shakerchi  Leon Tsoukernik  Haralabos Voulgaris  Qiang Wang  Ben Wu  Chow Yaung  Richard Yong  Robert Yong  Wai Yong  Liang Yu  Winfred Yu  Aaron Zang

Professional players  Timothy Adams  Mikita Badsjakouski  Justin Bonomo  Rui Cao  Daniel Cates  Wai Chan  Stephen Chidwick  Tom Dwan  Matthias Eibinger  Sam Greenwood  Fedor wood  Martin Kabrhel  Bryn Kenney  Jason Koon

Igor Kurganov  Timofei Kuznetsov  David Peters  Nick Petrangelo  Vivek Rajkumar  Andrew Robl  Dan Smith  Michael Soyza  Daniel Tang  Sam Trickett  Elton Tsang  Christoph Vogelsang  Tan Xuan

Results

Bryn Kenney won the highest prize money ever in a poker tournament

All players started with a stack of one million chips. Ten blind levels were played on the first day of the tournament. At the end of the day, 36 of the 54 players were still in the tournament. The chip leader was Bill Perkins with more than 3.5 million chips. On the second day of the tournament, the rush for prize money was reached after Igor Kurganov was eliminated in twelfth place. The day ended with reaching the final table and eight players remaining. Vivek Rajkumar went into the final day as chip leader with 18 million chips.

On the final day, it took about three and a half hours, had to be the first player to leave his place: Timothy Adams had with K ♦ K ♥ before the flop all the chips against Rajkumar's A ♦ T ♣ get into the middle of the table, however, against Met A ♣ beaten have to. Around 15 minutes later Alfred DeCarolis ran with A ♥ 3 ♥ in Stephen Chidwick's A ♠ A ♣ and was eliminated in seventh place. The field then played for almost two hours with six players and Dan Smith took the lead in chips during this time. Then Bill Perkins put his remaining chips all-in with K ♥ T ♦ , but the hand failed to improve against Bryn Kenney's A ♠ A ♦ and Perkins finished sixth. After Kenney doubled his chip stack against Aaron Zang , he then took the next player out of the tournament in Rajkumar. Kenney held A ♥ A ♣ again , defeating the Indian's A ♠ 8 ♠ and taking the chip lead. Then Zang took the lead in chip counts for the first time, but Kenney quickly fought back the chip lead and subsequently set himself apart from the other players. With K ♥ J ♣ it was Kenney who took Chidwick out of the tournament with 7 ♠ 7 ♦ . A few hands later, with Q ♥ T ♥, he also eliminated Smith, who had put A ♦ T ♣ all-in. Before the start of the decisive heads-up , which Kenney started with a clear lead, the two players agreed on a deal that guaranteed Kenney a prize of almost £ 17m and Zang almost £ 14m. The latter quickly took the lead again after two big pots. Finally went to the 160th hand of the final table on the board 8 ♠ 4 ♠ 3 ♣ all chips in the middle: Kenney had with A ♠ 6 ♠ a flush - Draw could stand up to Zang 8 ♦ 5 ♦ but not improve, finishing in second place. Kenney received the highest ever distributed in a poker tournament prize money equivalent to more than 20.5 million US dollars and thus took the lead in the All Time Money List by Justin Bonomo . Zang secured the equivalent of more than $ 16.7 million and has been the most successful Chinese poker player ever since.

space	origin	player	Prize money
			in pounds	in US dollars
1		Aaron Zang	13,779,491	16,775,820
2		Bryn Kenney	16,890,509	20,563,324
3		Dan Smith	07,200,000	08,765,628
4th		Stephen Chidwick	04,410,000	05,368,947
5		Vivek Rajkumar	03,000,000	03,652,345
6th		Bill Perkins	02,200,000	02,678,386
7th		Alfred DeCarolis	01,720,000	02,094,011
8th		Timothy Adams	01,400,000	01,704,427
9		Wai Chan	01,200,000	01,460,938
10		Chin Lim	01,100,000	01,339,193
11		Winfred Yu

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Triton Million for Charity on pokernews.com (English)
• Triton Million for Charity in the Hendon Mob Poker Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Poker Central Partner with Triton to Live Stream the World's Largest Buy-in Tournament: The Triton Million on pokercentral.com on July 20, 2019, accessed on July 21, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Triton Million on triton-series.com, accessed on July 18, 2019 (English).
3. ↑ Bill Perkins Leads Richest Tournament in History After Day 1 on pokernews.com on August 2, 2019, accessed on August 2, 2019.
4. ↑ Igor Kurganov Bubbles £ 1,050,000 Triton Million - A Helping Hand for Charity on pokernews.com August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019.
5. ↑ Vivek Rajkumar Leads the Triton Million - A Helping Hand For Charity Final Eight on pokernews.com on August 3, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2019.
6. ↑ Timothy Adams Eliminated in 8th Place (£ 1,400,000) on pokernews.com, August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019.
7. ↑ Alfred DeCarolis Eliminated in 7th Place (£ 1,720,000) on pokernews.com August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019.
8. ↑ Hands # 54-58: Smith Finds a Double, Takes the Lead on pokernews.com from August 3, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2019.
9. ↑ Bill Perkins Eliminated in 6th Place (£ 2,200,000) on pokernews.com, August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019.
10. ↑ Hands # 86-90: Kenney Secures Big Double Through Zang on pokernews.com on August 3, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2019.
11. ↑ Vivek Rajkumar Eliminated in 5th Place (£ 3,000,000) on pokernews.com August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019.
12. ↑ Hands # 102-106: Zang Doubles Again to Take the Lead on pokernews.com from August 3, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2019.
13. ↑ Hands # 117-121: Kenney Starting to Take Over the Table on pokernews.com on August 3, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2019.
14. ↑ Stephen Chidwick Eliminated in 3rd Place (£ 4,410,000) on pokernews.com August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019.
15. ↑ Dan Smith Eliminated in 3rd Place (£ 7,200,000) on pokernews.com August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019.
16. ^ ^{A b} Aaron Zang Wins Triton Million - A Helping Hand for Charity (£ 13,779,491); Bryn Kenney Now First on All-Time Money List on pokernews.com August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019.
17. ↑ Hands # 156-159: Zang Takes Over on pokernews.com from August 3, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2019.
18. ↑ Bryn Kenney Eliminated in 2nd Place (£ 11,670,000) on pokernews.com August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019.