Action was picked up on the flop with the board showing Q♠7♠10♦ and Jason Koon checked to [Removed:607], who bet out 4,500, and Koon made the call.
The turn brought the 7♥ and Koon decided to lead out for a bet of 3,500, and [Removed:608] made the call.
The river was the 3♥ and Koon checked to [Removed:608], who fired out 16,500, which got a quick fold from Koon to give the pot to [Removed:608].
Alex Kulev raised to 2,500 and was called by the big blind Masashi Oya.
The flop came Q♥A♦A♠ and Oya check-called a bet of 1,000 from Kulev.
After the 6♣ on the turn, Oya checked to Kulev again, who fired out 5,500 this time. Oya gave it some thought before mucking his hand to give the pot to Kulev.
Aram Oganyan opened to 2,500 from the button and Dejan Kaladjurdjevic called from the big blind.
The 9♥4♦4♣ flop checked through to the 7♥ turn. Kaladjurdjevi check-raised to 22,000 over Oganyan's bet of 2,000. The latter called to make the pot 51,000.
Kaladjurdjevic sized up to 38,000 on the K♥ river, and after some thought, Oganyan chucked in a calling chip.
Kaladjurdjevic sheepishly turned over his busted draw, showing 10♣8♥. Oganyan took in the pot after tabling 10♥10♦.
Alexey Borovkov limped in from the small blind, and Orpen Kisacikoglu checked his option in the big blind.
Borovkov bet 1,000 on the J♠J♦3♠ flop, and called when Kisacikoglu made it 3,500.
The A♥ turn checked through to the 4♦ river, where Borovkov folded out his opponent with a bet of 7,000.
The Triton Main Event is now underway, with 26 entries to kick off the action.
Level: 1
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
The Triton Main Event Players are taking their seats, with play expected to start in the next few minutes.
As a battle rapper, Argentina's Alejandro Lococo is used to performing under pressure in front of large crowds with glory on the line. Last year in the Bahamas, Lococo used that competitive drive to take down Event #2: $1,000,000 Triton Million at World Series of Poker Paradise for $12,070,000 and his first bracelet.
The unique collaboration between WSOP and Triton, which drew 96 entrants for a $48 million prize pool, paired the best high-stakes players in the world like Alex Foxen (6th - $2,795,000) and runner-up Benjamin Heath ($8,160,000) with deep-pocketed VIPs like David Einhorn (14th - $865,000) and Sosia Jiang ($1,605,000).
With $2.8 million in earnings and a WSOP Main Event final table appearance in 2021, Lococo, a VIP in the event, was somewhere in between the two groups.
"I'm a rapper. I don't study the game. I just try to do the best in every single hand," Lococo told PokerNews in a winner's interview. "I love the game and I try to win of course, but I'm not using solvers (or) ... running sims. You have to be really, really professional and invest a lot of hours of your life to beat these guys."
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alejandro Lococo | Argentina | $12,070,000 |
| 2 | Benjamin Heath | United Kingdom | $8,160,000 |
| 3 | Sinan Unlu | Turkey | $5,304,000 |
| 4 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | $4,390,000 |
| 5 | Elias Talvitie | Finland | $3,542,000 |
| 6 | Alex Foxen | United States | $2,795,000 |
| 7 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | Latvia | $2,140,000 |
| 8 | Sosia Jiang | New Zealand | $1,605,000 |
| 9 | Michael Moncek | United States | $1,200,000 |
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