Event #2: $1,000,000 Triton Million
Day 1 Completed
2024 WSOP Paradise
Event #2: $1,000,000 Triton Million
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
2024 WSOP Paradise
Buy-in
$1,000,000
Prize Pool
$48,000,000
Entries
96
Level
26
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
1,000,000
Entries
95
Players Left
67
Level 10
: Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise is in full swing at Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas and saw the WSOP's first partnership with Triton with Event #2: $1,000,000 Triton Million, a unique event pairing VIPs with the world's best high-stakes poker pros. The day wrapped up with 67 players remaining and two fan-favorites among them in Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu.
Both Poker Hall of Famers are after their second bracelets of the year after Ivey won his 11th this summer in the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship and Negreanu won his seventh in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship.
They were hardly the only heavy hitters in the Day 1 field, with Fedor Holz, Isaac Haxton, Justin Bonomo, Michael Addamo, Adrian Mateos, Jason Koon, Ben Heath, Chance Kornuth, Alex Foxen and Nick Petrangelo all being among those who advanced to Day 2.
Two-time bracelet winner Michael "Texas Mike" Moncek bagged the chip lead with 3,815,000 ahead of big stack's like Triton founder Paul Phua (Ivey's partner), Sosia Jiang and recent Poker Hall of Fame inductee Patrik Antonius.
Triton Million Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Moncek | 3,815,000 | 191 |
| 2 | Sinan Unlu | 3,200,000 | 160 |
| 3 | Paul Phua | 2,750,000 | 138 |
| 4 | Sosia Jiang | 2,665,000 | 133 |
| 5 | Fedor Holz | 2,625,000 | 131 |
| 6 | Patrik Antonius | 2,570,000 | 129 |
| 7 | Jared Bleznick | 2,535,000 | 127 |
| 8 | Konstantin Maslak | 2,150,000 | 108 |
| 9 | Chance Kornuth | 2,140,000 | 107 |
| 10 | Taylor von Kriegenbergh | 2,140,000 | 107 |
Day 1 of the $500,000 buy-in event drew 95 runners, nearly two dozen of those being reentries. A few players were playing the biggest buy-in of their careers, including Jessica Teusl and Monika Zukowicz and Shaun Deeb, who spoke to PokerNews about the exciting moment.
Despite the half-million price tag for each player in the invitational, it took only one hand for one of them to lose all their chips. That player was David Einhorn, who ran ace-king into the aces of Jared Bleznick to be sent to the reentry counter.
The big pots continued as Haxton put Addamo to the test during Level 2. On a double-paired board, Haxton check-jammed on Addamo before the Australian crusher folded to be left with half a starting stack. Addamo had no problem running his stack back up and making it to the end of the day.
Einhorn wasn't the only early casualty. Aleksejs Ponakovs fell early as his queens were crushed by Taylor von Kriegenbergh's set of kings. Andrew Pantling fell to pocket kings later in the evening but, unlike Ponakovs, decided to cut his losses and didn't buy back in.
The most notable elimination of the day was Ivey, who lost a big pot to Heath before buying back in and sitting at a table that included Alex Foxen, Sam Greenwood and Nick Schulman.
Day 2 will start at noon on Level 11 with blinds of 10,000/25,000/25,000 and 50-minute levels. The plan is to play down to a final table, meaning the bubble will burst on Day 2.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is on-site at Atlantis and will be ready for more coverage of an exciting start to WSOP Paradise. Check out the live reporting hub in the meantime.
Level 10
: Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Jared Bleznick | United States | 2,500,000 | 100 |
| 1 | 2 | James Hopkins | Australia | 1,100,000 | 44 |
| 1 | 3 | Elton Tsang | Hong Kong | 2,000,000 | 80 |
| 1 | 5 | Phillip Nagy | Costa Rica | 640,000 | 26 |
| 1 | 7 | Wayne Heung | Hong Kong | 1,700,000 | 68 |
| 1 | 8 | Alejandro Lococo | Argentina | 1,300,000 | 52 |
| 1 | 9 | Sinan Unlu | Turkey | 3,200,000 | 128 |
| 3 | 1 | Monika Zukowicz | Poland | 695,000 | 28 |
| 3 | 2 | Michael Moncek | United States | 3,800,000 | 152 |
| 3 | 3 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | United Kingdom | 500,000 | 20 |
| 3 | 5 | Brandon Steven | United States | 565,000 | 23 |
| 3 | 6 | Sosia Jiang | New Zealand | 2,700,000 | 108 |
| 3 | 9 | Ryan Feldman | United States | 1,800,000 | 72 |
| 3 | 10 | Yong Wai Kin | Malaysia | 1,900,000 | 76 |
| 7 | 1 | Jason Koon | United States | 1,500,000 | 60 |
| 7 | 2 | Fedor Holz | Germany | 2,100,000 | 84 |
| 7 | 3 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 780,000 | 31 |
| 7 | 5 | Phil Ivey | United States | 840,000 | 34 |
| 7 | 6 | Nick Schulman | United States | 1,400,000 | 56 |
| 7 | 7 | Elias Talvitie | Finland | 1,700,000 | 68 |
| 7 | 8 | Alex Foxen | United States | 898,000 | 36 |
| 7 | 10 | Artur Martirosian | Russia | 1,100,000 | 44 |
| 9 | 1 | Michael Addamo | Australia | 1,300,000 | 52 |
| 9 | 2 | Isaac Haxton | United States | 1,800,000 | 72 |
| 9 | 5 | Taylor Von Kriegenbergh | United States | 2,100,000 | 84 |
| 9 | 6 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 985,000 | 39 |
| 9 | 7 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | Latvia | 1,800,000 | 72 |
| 9 | 8 | Sean Winter | United States | 1,200,000 | 48 |
| 9 | 9 | Bryn Kenney | United States | 895,000 | 36 |
| 9 | 10 | Waikiat Lee | Malaysia | 685,000 | 27 |
| 10 | 1 | Juan Pardo | Spain | 1,160,000 | 46 |
| 10 | 2 | David Yan | New Zealand | 1,355,000 | 54 |
| 10 | 3 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 1,965,000 | 79 |
| 10 | 5 | Seth Davies | United States | 1,485,000 | 59 |
| 10 | 6 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 845,000 | 34 |
| 10 | 7 | Justin Bonomo | United States | 1,000,000 | 40 |
| 10 | 8 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 1,160,000 | 46 |
| 10 | 10 | Chance Kornuth | United States | 2,140,000 | 86 |
| 2 | 1 | Kannapong Thanarattrakul | Thailand | 1,400,000 | 56 |
| 2 | 3 | David Einhorn | United States | 1,000,000 | 40 |
| 2 | 5 | Eric Wasserson | United States | 1,000,000 | 40 |
| 2 | 6 | Raul Manzanares Lozano | Spain | 950,000 | 38 |
| 2 | 7 | Juuso Koskela | Finland | 1,300,000 | 52 |
| 2 | 8 | Saya Ono | United States | 820,000 | 33 |
| 2 | 9 | Ferdinand Putra | Indonesia | 1,800,000 | 72 |
| 2 | 10 | Zuo Wang | Hong Kong | 650,000 | 26 |
| 5 | 1 | Charles Hook | United States | 420,000 | 17 |
| 5 | 2 | Sirzat Hissou | Luxembourg | 1,700,000 | 68 |
| 5 | 3 | Cristian Nagaki | Peru | 620,000 | 25 |
| 5 | 6 | Paul Phua | Malaysia | 2,800,000 | 112 |
| 5 | 7 | Chad De Berry | United States | 1,300,000 | 52 |
| 5 | 8 | Jessica Teusl | Austria | 2,100,000 | 84 |
| 5 | 9 | Konstantin Maslak | Russia | 2,100,000 | 84 |
| 5 | 10 | Ossi Ketola | Finland | 785,000 | 31 |
| 8 | 1 | Ben Heath | United Kingdom | 2,000,000 | 80 |
| 8 | 2 | Kayhan Mokri | Norway | 1,700,000 | 68 |
| 8 | 3 | Danny Tang | United Kingdom | 555,000 | 22 |
| 8 | 5 | Shaun Deeb | United States | 1,100,000 | 44 |
| 8 | 6 | Matthias Eibinger | Austria | 1,100,000 | 44 |
| 8 | 7 | Patrik Antonius | Finland | 990,000 | 40 |
| 8 | 8 | Nick Petrangelo | United States | 1,500,000 | 60 |
| 8 | 9 | Alex Kulev | Bulgaria | 1,200,000 | 48 |
Level 10
: Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,815,000
1,259,000
|
1,259,000 |
|
||
|
3,200,000
-254,000
|
-254,000 |
|
2,750,000
1,822,000
|
1,822,000 |
|
||
|
2,665,000
444,000
|
444,000 |
|
2,625,000
-475,000
|
-475,000 |
|
||
|
2,570,000
1,557,000
|
1,557,000 |
|
||
|
2,535,000
435,000
|
435,000 |
|
|
||
|
2,150,000
1,150,000
|
1,150,000 |
|
|
||
|
2,140,000
362,000
|
362,000 |
|
||
|
2,140,000
-116,000
|
-116,000 |
|
2,070,000
970,000
|
970,000 |
|
|
||
|
2,040,000
740,000
|
740,000 |
|
2,035,000
635,000
|
635,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,970,000
1,221,000
|
1,221,000 |
|
1,965,000
-435,000
|
-435,000 |
|
||
|
1,925,000
825,000
|
825,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,910,000
271,000
|
271,000 |
|
1,845,000
889,000
|
889,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,840,000
340,000
|
340,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,830,000
530,000
|
530,000 |
|
1,765,000
765,000
|
765,000 |
|
1,700,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,690,000
-1,330,000
|
-1,330,000 |
|
1,675,000
-193,000
|
-193,000 |
|
1,645,000
-599,000
|
-599,000 |
Level 10
: Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
Day 1 has wrapped up with 67 players remaining. Stay tuned for a full recap of the day's action.
Level 10
: Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
The clocks are paused and the tournament director has instructed dealers to deal three more hands before players bag and tag.
Level 10
: Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
Matthias Eibinger raised from under the gun and Danny Tang three-bet jammed a stack of 380,000 from the small blind. Eibinger called with a bigger stack.
Danny Tang: Q♠Q♦ 
Matthias Eibinger: A♥10♥
Tang's queens held up as the board ran out K♦5♦2♠3♠8♠ for a late night double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
910,000
-627,000
|
-627,000 |
|
800,000
370,000
|
370,000 |
|
|
||
Level 10
: 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
Elias Talvitie opened in the cutoff and Artur Martirosian called out of the small blind.
Martirosian checked on the flop of Q♥A♦3♠ and Talvitie continued for 40,000. Martirosian announced a raise to 180,000 and Talvitie quickly folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,400,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
1,300,000 | |
Level 10
: 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
Action folded to Elias Talvitie who raised to 50,000 from the hijack. He was called by Sam Greenwood on the button, before Mario Mosbock three-bet all in for his stack of 535,000. After the big blind folded Talvite four-bet all in, which got Greenwood to quickly fold, leaving the players heads up with Mosbock at risk.
Mario Mosbock: 10♠10♥
Elias Talvitie: A♥A♣
Mosbock ran into the pocket aces of Talvitie, and once the board ran out 6♥2♥5♣3♣J♣ the pocket aces of Talvitie were still best, eliminating Mosbock.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,700,000
-200,000
|
-200,000 |
|
650,000
-95,000
|
-95,000 |
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level: 10
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000