Gamblers Get Ready, It's Time for More Triton Hold'em! HK$1,000,000 Triton Hold'em Event Begins Today!
If the HK$500,000 buy-in Triton Hold'em (Short-Deck) Ante-Only event that Ivan Leow won earlier in the week wasn't enough action for you, you're in luck, because on Saturday, July 28th, the HK$1,000,000 Triton Hold'em (Short Deck) Ante-Only event kicks off. This event is likely to bring out the biggest names and faces as well as the biggest bankrolls as it's the second largest buy-in of this series, which sits at roughly USD $127,000. This is the last chance for any tournament action before the Main Event as well so those looking for a good warm-up will likely join in as well.
The last event of this stature was won by Jason Koon at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Montenegro. That event brought out a stunning field of 103 entries and this event is likely to be the same with a monster turn out and a huge field. The event in Montenegro created a prizepool of HK$96,902,400 (~$12,344,397) and Koon took home HK$28,102,000 ($3,579,914) as his first place prize.
Once again as a refresher for the rules of Triton Hold'em/short deck, all twos, threes, fours, and fives are removed from the deck, and thus, hand rankings are changed to reflect the respective strength of hands. For this events, flushes now play higher than full houses as there is only eight cards to every suit. Other than that, six-plus hold’em is played similarly to regular hold’em with two hole cards, five community cards, and four streets of betting — preflop, flop, turn, and river. Also to note, aces can still play for a low straight, replacing the five, making ace-six-seven-eight-nine a straight as well.
The format will be similar to the other Triton Hold'em/Short Deck events with a starting stack of 100,000 and two reloadable bullets which can be used for an extra 100,000 at any time. Levels for this event will be 60-minutes long and will start with antes at 1,000 with a double ante paid from the button for each hand. Players will have a break after every two levels and a longer break after level 4. The plan is to play 6 levels today and registration will remain open through to Day 2 of the event for one level after that.
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