The long-time poker player has 10 Triton Poker titles and is in danger of losing his place
US poker pro Jason Koon picked up his 10th victory on the Triton Poker tour on Saturday at the 2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo $26,000 PLO turbo event, outlasting 50 players to earn the championship trophy and $365,000 top prize. He has six Triton titles in 2023, more than any other player has in his career, and is just ahead of Phil Ivey and Danny Tang, with five titles each.
Koon has a title at each of the four Triton festivals in 2023, winning at the WPT London and Cyprus events. His 41 cashes of over $26.2 million on the Tour make up over half his lifetime earnings of $52.2 million.
The one-day event at the Salle des Etoiles at Monte-Carlo Sporting featured a $1,250,000 prize pool, with the top nine players claiming a share of the pot. With six players left, Koon held an average chip stack, with Lazlo Bujtas in the lead. Ren Lin was eliminated first (6th for $77,500) after his double-suited A-A-8-5 fell to Eelis Parssinen’s double-suited A-J-7-3 after hitting trip sevens on the river.
Bujtas was the next to fall (5th for $100,000) when Parissinen’s A-K-Q-8 beat his pocket kings after both players turned a flush and the latter held the better hand. Koon would eliminate Sam Greenwood in fourth place ($129,000) and then take down Joao Vieira after hitting a set of fives to end his tournament in third place for $171,000.
In heads-up play, Parssinen would push in the last of his 1,775,000 chips with his pair of sevens, with Koon holding flush and straight draws. A two of spades on the river gave Koon his flush and the championship, sending Parssinen home in second for $262,000.
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