button in SafariEibinger Leads Stacked Final 26 Into Triton’s $150K Anniversary Special Day 2
The Triton Montenegro schedule just keeps getting heavier.
Day 1 of the $150,000 NLH 10th Anniversary Special wrapped up on Saturday with 60 entries recorded and 26 players surviving to Day 2, but with late registration still open until the restart, both the field and prize pool are expected to climb even higher.
And leading the way? None other than Matthias Eibinger.
The Austrian high-stakes crusher, already a Triton Main Event champion in both PLO and NLH formats, bagged 1,104,000 chips to finish as the overnight leader, good for 110 big blinds when play resumes at noon local time.
Eibinger sits narrowly ahead of Thailand’s Punnat Punsri and Latvian superstar Aleks Ponakovs, who both finished just shy of the million-chip mark after another brutal day in poker’s toughest arena.
The top of the leaderboard is a who's who of tournament poker, with Kiat Lee, Eelis Pärssinen, Jonathan Jaffe, and Kristen Foxen all comfortably above average heading into Day 2.
Further down the counts, there’s no shortage of danger either. Recent Triton Main Event winner Danny Tang returns with 32 blinds, while Adrian Mateos, Jason Koon, and Jesse Lonis are all still alive despite sitting in the lower half of the leaderboard.
Top 10 Chip Counts $150K Anniversary Special
| 1 | Matthias Eibinger | 1,104,000 |
| 2 | Punnat Punsri | 984,000 |
| 3 | Aleks Ponakovs | 982,000 |
| 4 | Kiat Lee | 674,000 |
| 5 | Eelis Pärssinen | 639,000 |
| 6 | Jonathan Jaffe | 629,000 |
| 7 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | 589,000 |
| 8 | Tom Fuchs | 512,000 |
| 9 | Jean-Noel Thorel | 502,000 |
| 10 | Kristen Foxen | 457,000 |
With late registration still open and some of the biggest names in high-stakes poker already in the mix, the anniversary event is shaping up to be another monster turnout for Triton Montenegro.