David Coleman still holds the lead at the final table of Event #3: $25k NLH Titi Poker, but it's tight at the top between him and Isaac Haxton.
Chu Chi-Jen was the final elimination of the day, shoving with A♥2♥ into the 9♣9♥ of Haxton. There was an ace on the A♠6♣5♥ flop, but the 7♥8♣ runout gave Haxton a straight, sending Chi-Jen to the rail and bringing Day 2 to a close.
Chu Chi-Jen
$25k NLH Titi Poker End of Day 2 Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chips
Big Blinds (BBs)
1
David Coleman
United States
11,875,000
40
2
Isaac Haxton
United States
11,075,000
37
3
Aren Bezhanyan
Armenia
10,700,000
36
4
Anatoly Filatov
Russia
10,150,000
34
5
Khoa Anh Ngo
Vietnam
6,450,000
22
6
Joe Hindry
United Kingdom
2,250,000
8
Alongside Coleman and Haxton in making it to the final table are:
Aren Bezhanyan - The Armenian sits in a congested middle of the pack. Bezhanyan won his first Triton title in Jeju back in March, and has now moved above $2 million in Triton earnings
Anatoly Filatov - Another player with just one Triton title, and another whose title came in Korea. In March 2025, he won the $25k WPT Global Slam for $1,882,000.
Khoa Anh Ngo - This is the Vietnamese player's third Triton SHRS cash, but he already has two Triton ONE titles from Jeju.
Joe Hindry - Third event, first cash, first final table for the Brit who is making his Triton debut in South Korea.
From a field of 131, just 63 players remain and they are led by Seth Davies. Just 23 places will be paid, with plenty of big names still in contention including Jesse Lonis, Artur Martirosian and Aleks Ponakovs.
We're down to our unofficial final table in the $25k NLH Titi Poker, and what a final 10 players to make it up:
Rank
Player
Country
Chips
BBs
1
David Coleman
United States
14,250,000
95
2
Isaac Haxton
United States
9,425,000
63
3
Anatoly Filatov
Russia
5,675,000
38
4
Khoa Anh Ngo
Vietnam
4,550,000
30
5
Aren Bezhanyan
Armenia
4,375,000
29
6
Joe Hindry
United Kingdom
4,025,000
27
7
Thomas Boivin
Belgium
3,775,000
25
8
Danilo Velasevic
Serbia
3,425,000
23
9
Justin Chu
Taiwan
1,850,000
12
10
Batmunkh Unubukh
Mongolia
1,150,000
8
David Coleman is out front, closely followed by Ike Haxton, and Anatoly Filatov. All of the front 3 have a single Triton title to their name and are looking for more.
Meanwhile, there's Triton ONE royalty at the final table with Khoa Anh Ngo, the only player to win two Triton ONE titles - could he make it a debut win on the Super High Roller Series?
There's a lovely story developing in today's $25k 8-Handed, in the shape of Moroccan player Reda Achnit.
Achnit won a freeroll tournament to qualify for a seat here at Triton Jeju and is a 24-year old computer engineering graduate when he's not battling the best in the world on the felt.
The Triton newbie, who until now has just played microstakes online, told Triton media he was watching the stream at home in Morocco when he spotted the competition offering the trip of a lifetime to Jeju and entry to today's $25,000 tournament.
Achnit told Triton, "I was alone, at my parents' house, playing on my laptop. When it was over I sat there for a while genuinely not understanding what had just happened — I was thrilled, but my brain hadn't caught up. I went and told my brother, and he was amazed, but we didn't run around the house screaming."
Reda Achnit
Achnit isn't here to make up the numbers, though. Far from it.
He also told Triton media, "I'm treating it as a professional opportunity, not a holiday. My honest goal is to perform well — to reach the money at minimum, and to win it if the cards allow. I'm not going there hoping to survive an hour and take a photo."
Well, he's doing all that and more today with a top 10 stack on Day 1 and is currently playing against Stephen Chidwick, Eelis Parssinen, and Mike Watson - just the 11 Triton titles and over $60 million in Triton earnings between them. Absolutely incredible.
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