There are no soft tables in $250,000 buy-in tournaments, but Day 1 of the Triton Invitational may have produced some of the toughest tables of all. That's because, on Day 1, the rich recreationals and the top poker pros willing to put up the quarter-million buy-in are separated.
Among the pro tables is one featuring poker's all-time money leader, Bryn Kenney, as well as Spanish wunderkind Adrian Mateos, American crusher Nick Petrangelo and Kayhan Mokri, the Norwegian new kid on the high-stakes block.
Adjacent to them is Kenney's closest all-time money list competitor, Stephen Chidwick, as well as PokerStars ambassador Jason Koon and Thailand's Punnat Punsri, one of the hottest performers on the circuit right now.
And speaking of, GPI Player of the Year frontrunner Jesse Lonis is flexing his gorilla muscles at a table that also includes fan-favorite Daniel Negreanu, Canadian end-boss Mike Watson, Latvian assassin Aleksejs Ponakovs and recent Poker Hall of Fame inductee Nick Schulman.
Not enough table of deaths? The final pro table features the likes of Poker Hall of Famer Patrik Antonius, new content creator Seth Davies, the always-goofing-off Nacho Barbero and Ben Tollerene, who is largely considered one of the best poker players without a bracelet and could scrub his name from that list with a victory here in the Bahamas.
