button in SafariDaniel Dvoress Completes the Triton Trident With Golden Decade Victory
Canadian star Daniel Dvoress completed a remarkable trifecta by taking down the $25,000 NLHE Golden Decade event at the 2026 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in Montenegro. Dvoress, who recently broke through $50 million in live tournament earnings, came out on top of a 146-strong field to take home $849,000 of the $3,650,000 prize pool.
His victory was impressive in its own right, but with it, Dvoress has now won Triton events in No-Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha, and Short Deck, which is no mean feat.
Speaking shortly after completing his Triton hat trick, Dvoress said, "I'm very proud. It's great, obviously. It is kind of funny that it took me forever to get my first Triton trophy to begin with, and they came in Short Deck, then PLO, and then Short Deck. I've generally been a no-limit specialist. I've not been playing the other two games for very long. So it feels nice to finally get this one."
$25,000 NLHE Golden Decade Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | $849,000 |
| 2 | Dejan Kaladjurdjevic | Montenegro | $575,000 |
| 3 | Paul Phua | Malaysia | $384,000 |
| 4 | Samuel Muller | Austria | $314,000 |
| 5 | Ding Biao | China | $252,000 |
| 6 | Fabian Niederreiter | Germany | $195,000 |
| 7 | Mikhail Soltanov | Russia | $145,000 |
| 8 | Danilo Velasevic | Serbia | $106,000 |
| 9 | Ben Tollerene | United States | $85,000 |
Dvoress entered the final table second in chips, trailing only Dejan Kaladjurdjevic. It would be those two superstars who would ultimately reach the heads-up stage.
Ben Tollerene, Danilo Velasevic, and Mikhail Soltanov were the first trio to crash out, leaving the final table six-handed.
Germany's Fabian Niederreiter, making his Triton debut, busted in sixth, his maiden cash weighing in at $195,000.
Three-time Triton winner Ding Biao crashed out in fifth at the hands of Dvoress. Biao had opened with king-queen and flopped a king on a king-three-three board. He opted to under-represent his strong holding, blissfully unaware that Dvoress had flopped trip threes with his lowly five-three offsuit. Dvoress improved to a full house on the river and set Biao all-in, and Biao couldn't find a fold.
The dangerous Samuel Muller was the next to bust after flopping a pair of queens with his ace-queen. Unfortunately for the Austriam Kaladjurdjevic's jack-nine had flopped two pair. Muller only had 15 big blinds at the start of the hand, so there was no getting away from his hand.
The legendary Paul Phua exited in third to send the Golden Decade event into heads-up. A short-stacked Phua was all-in with king-eight, which had flopped second pair, against Kaladjurdjevic's queen-ten. Kaladjurdjevic turned a flush draw and hit a gutshot Broadway straight on the river.
Dvoress went into heads-up with 71 big blinds to Kaladjurdjevic's 51. The final hand saw Dvoress limp with three-deuce off suit, and Kaladjurdjevic check his ten-nine. A four-nine-five flop gifted Kaladjurdjevic top pair against Dvoress' open-ended straight draw. Dvoress completed his straight when an ace landed on the turn, and got all of the chips when Kaladjurdjevic backed into trip nines, a costly second-best hand.
Kaladjurdjevic banked $575,000 for his bridesmaid finish, leaving Dvoress to reel in $849,000 and another Triton title.