$8,000 Triton ONE Main Event Day 1a | 2025 Triton ONE Jeju

09-05-2025 14:29 UTC+9

Assorted Big Stacks From the First Break

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : Blinds 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Chih-Yuan Wang	846,000 98,000	98,000

Ivan Karatayeu	827,000 154,000	154,000
Vincent Huang	703,500 703,500	703,500
Kaiwen Wei	679,500 158,500	158,500
Yunkyu Song	545,000 118,000	118,000
Artem Vezhenkov	542,500 256,500	256,500

Kristof Mato	507,000 257,000	257,000
Che-Lun Liu	506,000 265,000	265,000
Yuhang Liu	494,500 241,500	241,500
Ehsan Amiri	492,000 492,000	492,000
Lifu Huang	470,000 220,000	220,000
Nick Petrangelo	446,500 172,500	172,500

Shiina Okamoto	440,000 203,000	203,000

Ilias Aliev	424,500 54,000	54,000
Anton Lu	420,000 420,000	420,000
Yi Yang	419,000 49,000	49,000
Victor Chong	415,000 165,000	165,000

Level: 4

Blinds: 1,500/2,500

Ante: 2,500

09-05-2025 14:12 UTC+9

First Break

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Connor Richards

Level 3 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Players have been sent on their first 15-minute break of the day with the clocks showing 165 players remaining.

09-05-2025 14:12 UTC+9

Player	Chips	Progress
Dajie Zhuo	Busted
Konstantin Voronin	Busted

Murly Manokharan	Busted
Benedek Farkas	Busted
Pin-Hung Lee	Busted

Karatayeu Sends Wong to the Rail

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 3 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Table nine was suddenly left four-handed after three players had been knocked out in the last two orbits. Boris Kolev re-entered while Rowan Wong hero-called at the wrong time to be left with no chips.

Ivan Karatayeu raised to 5,000 for Kolev to call and Wong came along in the big blind. The trio checked the Q♠2♣2♦ flop and the 8♠ came on the turn. It was checked to Kolev who bet 14,000 and Wong called, Karatayeu raised to 55,000 and Wong was the only caller.

That led the duo to the 5♦ on the river on which Wong checked with 186,000 behind. Karatayeu bet 300,000 and his opponent tank-called with the 6♥2♥ for trips deuces to get out-kicked by Karatayeu's A♥2♠.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ivan Karatayeu	673,000 338,000	338,000
Boris Kolev	261,000 6,000	6,000

Rowan Wong	Busted
Benjamin Lakatos	Busted

Tags: Boris Kolev Ivan Karatayeu Rowan Wong

09-05-2025 14:08 UTC+9

Xuan Liu on Historic Triton Victory: 'I Felt Like I Was on Top of the World'

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Connor Richards

Level 3 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The year 2025 may go down as one of the best stretches in history for women in poker, and it started weeks before Shiina Okamoto won her second straight World Series of Poker (WSOP) Ladies Event or Leo Margets became the first woman in poker's modern era to make the final table of the Main Event.

Indeed, the landmark year for women in poker kicked off in May when longtime pro Xuan Liu made history by becoming the first woman to win a Triton Poker title. Months after taking down the WPT Global Slam at Triton Montenegro for a career-best $860,000, Liu is back on the Triton battlefield and seeking another title at the inaugural Triton ONE festival on South Korea's Jeju Island.

It was here that PokerNews caught up with Liu to talk about the historic victory, the role tournament poker plays in her life today and what the future holds for a grinder who is always looking to "reinvent myself."

Read About Xuan Liu's Triton Run!

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09-05-2025 14:04 UTC+9

Liu Folds Out Foxen

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Connor Richards

Level 3 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Alex Foxen opened to 4,500 in the hijack and Che-Lun Liu defended in the big blind.

Liu checked on the flop of 5♠9♣9♦ and Foxen continued for 3,000. Liu called. Both players then checked on the 5♥ turn.

The 7♠ river completed the board and Liu bet 12,000. Foxen folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Che-Lun Liu	241,000 241,000	241,000
Alex Foxen	211,000 18,000	18,000

Tags: Alex Foxen Che-Lun Liu

09-05-2025 14:01 UTC+9

Wang Welcomes Wakil to the Table

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 3 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Taiwan's Chih-Yuan Wang had already doubled his stack in the early stages and now added even more chips shortly after Jamil Wakil had entered the tournament and sat down at his table.

The action started with a raise to 5,000 by Tom Fuchs which was called by Wang, Wakil and Spencer Champlin behind them to the J♠10♦2♦ flop. It checked to Wakil on the button and he bet 12,000 for Wang to call. After the Q♠ turn, Wang check-called for 40,000 and check-called the 6♥ river for another 110,000.

Wakil revealed the 2♠2♣ for a flopped set of deuces but Wang had turned the second nut straight with the K♦9♣.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chih-Yuan Wang	748,000 220,000	220,000

Tom Fuchs	272,000

Spencer Champlin	232,000
Jamil Wakil	88,000

Tags: Jamil Wakil Spencer Champlin Tom Fuchs Chih-Yuan Wang

09-05-2025 13:58 UTC+9

Five-Bet Jam from Petrangelo

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Connor Richards

Level 3 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Sergei Moiseev opened to 4,000 from under the gun and Nick Petrangelo three-bet to 14,000 in the cutoff. Cheng Cheng then four-bet to 40,000 on the button.

Moiseev folded and Petrangelo five-bet jammed a stack of 288,000 to bring a quick fold from Cheng.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Petrangelo	274,000

Cheng Cheng	268,000
Sergei Moiseev	220,000

Tags: Nick Petrangelo Sergei Moiseev

09-05-2025 13:55 UTC+9

Kang Forces Out Yaghmai

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 3 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

South Korea's Hyunyeong Kang opened the action with a raise to 4,500 in the cutoff and he then called a three-bet to 17,000 by Nariman Yaghmai out of the small blind. On the J♣9♥3♥ flop, Yaghmai continued for 10,000 to pick up a call and then bet the 2♠ turn for another 40,000. Kang called once again and the J♥ river paired the board while also completing a flush draw as well.

Yaghmai slowed down and checked, allowing Kang to bet 160,000 with some 87,000 behind. That won the pot uncontested as Yaghmai opted to fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hyunyeong Kang	385,000 385,000	385,000
Junzhong Loo	274,000 274,000	274,000

Wei Zhu	246,000 246,000	246,000
Nariman Yaghmai	189,000 189,000	189,000
Xiaohu Liu	130,000 130,000	130,000