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Adrian Mateos crushed it at the final table of the $200k Triton Invitational on Thursday to win the event for $6,370,000.
The tournament, which began with 137 entrants, had just 12 remaining players when Day 2 began. Maher Nouira held a sizable chip lead, with Anatoly Zlotnikov, who won a Triton event earlier in the Montenegro series, in second place. Both players reached the final table, but neither would come out victorious, although they did take home some large paydays.
Final Table Action
Isaac Haxton reached the final table with a chance to become the fourth player in history to record $70 million in The Hendon Mob live tournament cashes, To reach that milestone, he would have needed to win the tournament. Instead, he was out in ninth place for $635,000.
Eelis Parssinen was the next out the door in eighth place for $797,000, followed by Kiat Lee in seventh place for $1,085,000, just in time for the pay jumps to become massive.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adrian Mateos | $6,370,000 |
| 2 | Alexey Lozuyk | $4,316,000 |
| 3 | Ben Heath | $2,877,000 |
| 4 | Andre Berg | $2,357,000 |
| 5 | Anatoly Zlotnikov | $1,890,000 |
| 6 | Maher Nouira | $1,466,000 |
| 7 | Kiat Lee | $1,085,000 |
| 8 | Eelis Parssinen | $797,000 |
| 9 | Isaac Haxton | $635,000 |
Nouira, who started the day with the chip lead, ran Jx9x into Ax9x and almost got lucky when a Jx landed on the turn. But the Ax on the river sent him home in sixth place for $1,466,000. Zlotnikov's chances of a second Triton title in Montenegro were erased when he busted in fifth place for $1,890,000.
Andre Berg then moved all in preflop with 6x6x but ran into Ben Heath's JxJx. Berg, whose previous largest live tournament cash went for just $34,000, got a bit of a sweat on the turn when he picked up a straight draw. But he bricked the river to bust in fourth place for $2,357,000.
Alexey Lozuyk, however, was the chip leader when three-handed play began, but the average stack was just 23 big blinds. Heath, the smallest stack, would soon get his chips in against Mateos in a race, one that went the latter's way, sending Heath to the rails in third place for $2,877,000.
Lozuyk held the chip lead when heads-up play began, but by the slimmest of margins. Mateos would quickly take a massive chip lead before moving all in with A♦6♦ only to be well behind Lozuyk's A♣J♥.
With the chip lead on the line — and the tournament for Lozuyk — the board ran out 6♣9♦A♥Q♦3♣, which ended the Invitational on a bad beat. Lozuyk had to settle for second place and $4,316,000, while Mateos collected $6,370,000 and added to his future Poker Hall of Fame resume.
Mateos now has over $62 million in live tournament cashes. which includes four World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets. The Spanish poker legend nearly doubled his previous tournament high score, and he jumps from 10th to seventh place on Hendon Mob's all-time money list.
*Images courtesy of Triton Poker.
