Benedek Farkas Wins $572,000 as Triton ONE North Cyprus Crowns Ten Champions

Ten trophies have already been handed out at Triton ONE North Cyprus, and the $8,000 Main Event is shaping up to be a monster. Romania’s Alin Ivan opened the festival at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel in Kyrenia by winning the $3,000 QQPK Genesis for $450,000, Hungary’s Benedek Farkas came back from a 12-to-1 chip deficit heads-up to win the $10,000 NLH 7-Handed for $572,000, and China’s Zhou Quan added the $5,000 Mystery Bounty to his growing Triton record.

Meanwhile, the Main Event has already attracted 824 entries and a $5,992,952 prize pool, with late registration still open on Day 1c when this article was prepared.

The Triton ONE runs from November 5-15 and is the first half of a 26-day takeover of Northern Cyprus, with the Triton Super High Roller Series following from November 15-30. You can find the full schedule and everything you need to know about both series in our Northern Cyprus preview.

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Alin Ivan Wins Event #1: $3,000 QQPK Genesis

The festival got off to a flying start, with the $3,000 QQPK Genesis drawing 912 entries, including 558 re-entries, across four starting flights to create a $2,443,248 prize pool, with 146 places paid. It took an unscheduled third day to find a winner, and 26-year-old Romanian Alin Ivan came out on top on November 8 to collect $450,000 and his first Triton title, in the first Triton event he had ever played.

Ivan returned for the final day second in chips of the last six and quickly did damage, busting China's Chen Peng in sixth with ace-king and final table chip leader Zhang Yang in fifth when his pocket aces held against pocket fives. The tournament-defining hand came three-handed. On a Q-8-5-4-K board, Ivan called off his tournament life holding queen-deuce against a river shove from Russia's Viktor Kudinov, who had six-deuce, a hero call that gave Ivan more than double the chips of anyone else.

He then busted Ruslan Kasper in third ($191,000) and won heads-up when his ace-queen held against Kudinov's ace-four. Kudinov, who has played the Super High Roller Series and has more than $1 million in tournament earnings, banked a career-high $272,000.

"This is a completely surreal experience," Ivan said. "It's one of those moments you dream of when you start playing poker. To win out of 1,000 players, it's hard to even think about. It's crazy." On the big call, he added: "It was a tough spot on the river, but I knew he was capable of having enough bluffs for me to make that call."

Canada's Xuan Liu, the only woman to win on the Super High Roller Series, finished seventh for $59,048, while Aleksandr Kirichenko took $42,000 in eighth after his pocket aces were cracked by Kudinov's rivered set of threes.

$3,000 buy-in | 912 entries | $2,443,248 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Alin Ivan	Romania	$450,000
2	Viktor Kudinov	Russia	$272,000
3	Ruslan Kasper	Russia	$191,000
4	Pavel Ignatov	Russia	$143,000
5	Yang Zhang	China	$111,000
6	Chen Peng	China	$82,000
7	Xuan Liu	Canada	$59,048
8	Aleksandr Kirichenko	Russia	$42,000
9	Sardor Shagulyamov	Switzerland	$33,000
10	Zhicheng Miao	China	$27,500
11	Lavrentiy Ni	Kazakhstan	$27,500
12	Ignas Jasinevicius	Lithuania	$24,500
13	Axel Hallay	France	$24,500
14	Mitchell Hynam	United Kingdom	$22,000
15	Pavels Spirins	Latvia	$22,000
16	Pavel Tsukalenka	Belarus	$19,500
17	Mihai Trofim	Romania	$19,500
18	Imad Derwiche	France	$17,000
19	Yiannis Liperis	United Kingdom	$17,000
20	Nicholas Ralph	United Kingdom	$17,000
21	Aram Sargsyan	Armenia	$14,500
22	Alexandre Reard	France	$14,500
23	Giuseppe Calio	Italy	$14,500
24	Selahaddin Bedir	Turkey	$12,200
25	Bernard Stoddart	United Kingdom	$12,200
26	Georgios Skarparis	Cyprus	$12,200
27	Enver Abduraimov	Russia	$12,200
28	Xiang Chen	China	$10,700
29	Ruslan Zhmak	Russia	$10,700
30	Milos Petakovic	Serbia	$10,700
31	Stoyan Madanzhiev	Bulgaria	$10,700
32	Alessio Isaia	Italy	$9,300
33	Damir Zhugralin	Kazakhstan	$9,300
34	Haris Zambas	Cyprus	$9,300
35	Anton Rubtsov	Russia	$9,300
36	Kalle Parkkinen	Finland	$9,300
37	Aliaksei Miliutkin	Belarus	$9,300
38	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	$9,300
39	Nazar Buhaiov	Ukraine	$9,300
40	Yuejun Zhao	China	$7,900
41	Ole Schemion	Germany	$7,900
42	Fabian Niederreiter	Germany	$7,900
43	Aleks Ponakovs	Latvia	$7,900
44	Dmitrii Kravchenko	Russia	$7,900
45	Thi Xoa Nguyen	France	$7,900
46	Eero Abbey	Finland	$7,900
47	Hadi Khordbin	Iran	$7,900
48	Chao Duan	China	$7,900
49	Wu Jun Hao	Singapore	$7,900
50	Nariman Yaghmai	Iran	$7,900
51	Zhou Quan	China	$7,900
52	Yilu Yuan	China	$7,900
53	George Bogdan Ana	Romania	$7,900
54	Aleksandr Kropotov	Russia	$7,900
55	Armin Rezaei	Austria	$7,900
56	U Jin Lum	Malaysia	$6,600
57	Martynas Vitkauskas	Lithuania	$6,600
58	Oleg Silin	Russia	$6,600
59	Boris Smuskevicius	Lithuania	$6,600
60	Luka Bojovic	Serbia	$6,600
61	Erik Eisen	Germany	$6,600
62	Eugene Katchalov	Ukraine	$6,600
63	Sergei Moiseev	Russia	$6,600
64	Luigi Soncin	Brazil	$6,600
65	Andrei Konopelko	Belarus	$6,600
66	Anton Danilov	Russia	$6,600
67	Ana Marquez	Spain	$6,600
68	Igor Picone	Belgium	$6,600
69	Lei Yu	China	$6,600
70	Patrick Brooks	United Kingdom	$6,600
71	Alexander Isachenko	Russia	$6,600
72	Aren Bezhanyan	Armenia	$5,700
73	Eduard Bagrov	Ukraine	$5,700
74	Cedric Schwaederle	France	$5,700
75	Hao Tian	China	$5,700
76	Igor Abelmasov	Russia	$5,700
77	Jinlong Hu	China	$5,700
78	Artem Kotkovskyi	Ukraine	$5,700
79	Dmitrii Gromov	Russia	$5,700
80	Tony Ren Lin	China	$5,700
81	Dzhavanshyr Omarov	Ukraine	$5,700
82	Chengxu Hu	China	$5,700
83	Aleksei Istomin	Russia	$5,700
84	Anatoly Zlotnikov	Russia	$5,700
85	Chunnuan Xu	China	$5,700
86	Peng Huang	China	$5,700
87	Teeraphat Rangkatekarn	Thailand	$5,700
88	Leonid Sidelkovskii	Russia	$5,700
89	Ping Liu	United States	$5,700
90	Dimitrios Kilintaris	Greece	$5,700
91	Aleksei Rumiantsev	Russia	$5,700
92	Jean Mikhael	Lebanon	$5,700
93	TJ Reid	United States	$5,700
94	Alex Boika	Belarus	$5,700
95	Zoran Marich	Serbia	$5,700
96	Elias Suhonen	Finland	$5,100
97	Juho Suutari	Finland	$5,100
98	Virgile Turchi	France	$5,100
99	Emad Ghadamian	Iran	$5,100
100	Ander Vallinas	Spain	$5,100
101	Nguyen Huu Dung	Vietnam	$5,100
102	Julien Sitbon	France	$5,100
103	Maduka Durayalage	Canada	$5,100
104	Jeremie Zouari	France	$5,100
105	Jenya Gavrilovich	Belarus	$5,100
106	Rudy Halim	Indonesia	$5,100
107	Kazuyuki Tanemura	Japan	$5,100
108	Timur Kurbanov	Russia	$5,100
109	Yinan Zhou	China	$5,100
110	Tien Thanh Pham	Vietnam	$5,100
111	Hao Zhu	China	$5,100
112	David Kaufmann	Germany	$5,100
113	Siegfried Friedl	Austria	$5,100
114	Dominykas Mikolaitis	Lithuania	$5,100
115	Samuel Mullur	Austria	$5,100
116	Yixi Tang	China	$5,100
117	Renji Mao	China	$5,100
118	Ruslan Volkov	Russia	$5,100
119	Artsiom Lasouski	Belarus	$5,100
120	Jingxuan Zhu	China	$4,500
121	Mikhail Fedorov	Russia	$4,500
122	Mekan Yusupov	Turkmenistan	$4,500
123	Kanan Taherkhani	Turkey	$4,500
124	Evgeniy Grudskiy	Uzbekistan	$4,500
125	Mengdian Peng	China	$4,500
126	Yan Jingyao	China	$4,500
127	Yuan Yiwen	China	$4,500
128	Eduard Anufriiev	Ukraine	$4,500
129	Viktor Iarilov	Russia	$4,500
130	Jakub Sterba	Czech Republic	$4,500
131	German Gimenez	Argentina	$4,500
132	Thore Boedefeld	Germany	$4,500
133	Damir Gabdullin	Russia	$4,500
134	Itai Levy	Israel	$4,500
135	Selim Kilic	Turkey	$4,500
136	Roman Stoika	Russia	$4,500
137	Rashad Iskandarov	Azerbaijan	$4,500
138	Lili Tang	China	$4,500
139	John Forsman	Sweden	$4,500
140	Harry Halim	Indonesia	$4,500
141	Felipe Ketzer	Brazil	$4,500
142	Jessica Teusl	Austria	$4,500
143	Casimir Seire	Finland	$4,500
144	Joris Ruijs	Netherlands	$4,500
145	Tommi Lankinen	Finland	$4,500
146	Emilien Pitavy	France	$4,500

Ran Azor Wins Event #2: $2,000 One Night NLH Bounty Quattro

Israel's Ran Azor won the first trophy of the festival on November 6, taking down the $2,000 One Night NLH Bounty Quattro for $29,000, including $8,000 in bounties. The event drew 54 entries for a $100,008 prize pool. It was Azor's first Triton title, though he is no stranger to big results, with more than $2.3 million in career earnings, including $1.4 million from a second-place finish at the WPT World Poker Classic in 2009, according to The Hendon Mob.

Hengtao Zhu was the official runner-up, but third-place Luka Sorainen of Finland won more money, collecting $21,800, including $12,000 in bounties from a field-high six knockouts. Former Triton Super High Roller Series winner Sebastian Gaehl finished fifth.

$2,000 buy-in | 54 entries | $100,008 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Ran Azor	Israel	$29,000
2	Hengtao Zhu	Finland	$19,200
3	Luka Sorainen	Finland	$21,800
4	Yang Yixi	China	$7,400
5	Sebastian Gaehl	Germany	$5,800
6	Roman Stoika	Russia	$6,500
7	Kirill Beketov	Russia	$5,508
8	Haroldas Usevicius	Lithuania	$3,700
9	Aleksandr Kropotov	Russia	$2,100

Prizes include bounties won.

Zhou Quan Wins Event #3: $5,000 NLH 8-Handed Mystery Bounty

The $5,000 Mystery Bounty was a huge hit, drawing 607 entries, including 319 re-entries, for a total of $2,759,422 in prize money, with $1,545,422 on the main payout structure and the remaining $1,214,000 in mystery bounties. China's Zhou Quan won it on November 10, after an extra day of play, for $293,000, plus $35,000 from five bounty envelopes for a $328,000 total, and his first Triton ONE title. Zhou was already a two-time Super High Roller Series champion, and he joins Artur Martirosian and Ngo Khoa Anh as only the third player to win on both Triton tours.

The bubble burst in dramatic fashion with 103 players left, when Andrei Konopelko's ace-king beat both Giuseppe Calio's pocket queens and Luka Bojovic's queen-ten in a three-way all-in. The event then needed an extra day, with Asaf Groofi returning to the nine-handed final with a single big blind and busting on the first hand to Taiwan's Ting-Yi "Eric" Tsai, who bagged the chip lead with 28,000,000.

Tsai coolered Hu Chengxu with a rivered full house and busted Raul Yunusov in fifth, while Ihar Soika ended Daniel Braude's run in sixth and Yunusov took out five-time Super High Roller Series winner Mikita Badziakouski in seventh. Zhou then took control four-handed, busting Thailand's Punnat Punsri in fourth when his ace-seven held against king-jack and picking off Tsai's final shove with king-eight against jack-six to send him out in third for $128,000. Zhou took a 55 to 21 big blind lead into heads-up, limped pocket aces from the small blind and was snap-called by Belarus's Soika with king-deuce. Soika flopped a king, but the aces held. Soika, making his Triton debut with more than $5 million in live earnings, took $179,000 plus $35,000 in bounties.

Tsai had the last laugh, though. His 12 bounty envelopes included the top prize of $155,000, giving him $225,500 in bounties and a total payout of $353,500, more than the champion. Zhou said he still prefers Jeju as a place to play poker, but he is committed to chasing big-field events around the world, and he gave a shoutout to his many Chinese fans watching on the stream.

$5,000 buy-in | 607 entries | $1,545,422 prize pool | $1,214,000 in mystery bounties

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Zhou Quan	China	$293,000
2	Ihar Soika	Belarus	$179,000
3	Eric Tsai	Taiwan	$128,000
4	Punnat Punsri	Thailand	$97,000
5	Raul Yunusov	Russia	$77,000
6	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	$59,122
7	Daniel Braude	Israel	$43,000
8	Chengxu Hu	China	$29,100
9	Asaf Groofi	Israel	$23,100
10	Luigi Soncin	Brazil	$19,000
11	Alex Boika	Belarus	$19,000
12	Hao Tian	China	$16,000
13	Boris Smuskevicius	Lithuania	$16,000
14	Milos Petakovic	Serbia	$14,500
15	Davit Mikhanashvili	Georgia	$14,500
16	Berndt Gleissner	Germany	$13,000
17	Hossein Ensan	Germany	$13,000
18	Hao Zhu	China	$11,500
19	Joseph Mouawad	Lebanon	$11,500
20	Gianna Mcintire	United States	$11,500
21	Nguyen Huu Dung	Vietnam	$10,000
22	Piero Alioto	Italy	$10,000
23	Aleksei Savenkov	Russia	$9,000
24	Juns Leong	Malaysia	$9,000
25	Merijn Van Rooij	Netherlands	$9,000
26	Armin Rezaei	Austria	$8,500
27	Aleksandr Razinkov	Russia	$8,500
28	Oleg Silin	Russia	$7,300
29	Rustam Amirbekov	Russia	$7,300
30	Evgenii Sboev	Montenegro	$7,300
31	Sergio Fernandez	Spain	$7,300
32	Xiaosheng Zheng	China	$6,500
33	Ole Schemion	Germany	$6,500
34	Kirill Beketov	Russia	$6,500
35	Andrei Konopelko	Belarus	$6,500
36	Alexey Losev	Russia	$6,500
37	Andrew Hedley	United Kingdom	$6,500
38	Yang Zhang	China	$6,500
39	Hanif Shafeghat	Iran	$6,500
40	Nikolay Bibov	Bulgaria	$5,700
41	Yonatan Koko	Israel	$5,700
42	Siegfried Friedl	Austria	$5,700
43	Chen Peng	China	$5,700
44	Benedek Farkas	Hungary	$5,700
45	Stefan Ionita	Romania	$5,700
46	Kemal Aslan	Turkey	$5,700
47	Kalle Parkkinen	Finland	$5,700
48	Elena Yasyuchenya	Russia	$5,700
49	Arsen Avetisyan	Armenia	$5,700
50	Itai Levy	Israel	$5,700
51	Mikhail Ostapenko	Russia	$5,700
52	Yinan Zhou	China	$5,700
53	Andrei Mashinistov	Russia	$5,700
54	Pavel Tsukalenka	Belarus	$5,700
55	Nang Quang Nguyen	Vietnam	$5,700
56	Ander Vallinas	Spain	$4,900
57	Lei Yu	China	$4,900
58	Aleksandr Chernikov	Russia	$4,900
59	Konstantin Pletnikov	Russia	$4,900
60	Vadzim Godzdanker	Belarus	$4,900
61	Grzegorz Kozieja	Poland	$4,900
62	Tony Ren Lin	China	$4,900
63	Sebastian Gaehl	Germany	$4,900
64	Stanislav Petriv	Ukraine	$4,900
65	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	$4,900
66	Leonid Lishnevetskiy	Russia	$4,900
67	Roman Kolotiuk	Russia	$4,900
68	Alexander Isachenko	Russia	$4,900
69	Viktor Kudinov	Russia	$4,900
70	Winfred Yu	Hong Kong	$4,900
71	Thomas Eychenne	France	$4,900
72	Yu Zhang	China	$4,900
73	Parahat Nurmuhammedov	Turkmenistan	$4,500
74	Tahsin Cankurtaranli	Turkey	$4,500
75	Sergei Moiseev	Russia	$4,500
76	Harry Halim	Indonesia	$4,500
77	Yannick Schumacher	Germany	$4,500
78	Anton Rubtsov	Russia	$4,500
79	Yoko Sasaki	Japan	$4,500
80	Jeremie Zouari	France	$4,500
81	Julien Sitbon	France	$4,500
82	Tommi Lankinen	Finland	$4,500
83	Cedric Schwaederle	France	$4,500
84	Danielle Noja	Australia	$4,500
85	Pavel Ignatov	Russia	$4,500
86	Danesh Zargaran	Iran	$4,500
87	Raoul Kanme	Netherlands	$4,500
88	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	$4,500
89	Chen Weitao	China	$4,500
90	Jingxuan Zhu	China	$4,500
91	David Kaufmann	Germany	$4,500
92	Yan Jingyao	China	$4,500
93	Diana Kalietina	Ukraine	$4,500
94	Rudy Halim	Indonesia	$4,500
95	Joris Ruijs	Netherlands	$4,500
96	Yang Yi Ang	Malaysia	$4,100
97	Renji Mao	China	$4,100
98	Erik Eisen	Germany	$4,100
99	Lev Margolin	Israel	$4,100
100	Leonid Sidelkovskii	Russia	$4,100
101	Stoyan Madanzhiev	Bulgaria	$4,100
102	Haris Zambas	Cyprus	$4,100
103	Luka Bojovic	Serbia	$4,100

Elena Yasyuchenya Wins Event #6: $3,000 One-W Championship

Russia's Elena Yasyuchenya won the $3,000 One-W Championship, the women's event on the Triton ONE schedule, for $35,500 after a 16-hour grind that ended in the early hours of November 9. The event drew 42 entries, including 15 re-entries, for a $112,518 prize pool, and it came down to an all-Russian heads-up battle between two Triton debutants, with Yasyuchenya beating Kseniia Kolotiuk, who took $25,500.

China's Lili Tang, runner-up in this event in Jeju, held 60 big blinds and a commanding lead when the bubble burst, and Austria's Jessica Teusl climbed into contention with a double-up and then a pocket queens knockout of Yuan Yiwen. But it was Yasyuchenya who seized the momentum late. She took the chip lead by calling Tang's river shove with trip aces, then eliminated each of her last three opponents. Her king-ten made a flush to bust Teusl in fourth ($12,400), and her pocket queens held against Tang's ace-three to end the long-time chip leader's run in third ($16,318). Yasyuchenya took a 33 to 19 big blind lead into heads-up, and it was over on the very first hand when her pocket fours flopped a set against Kolotiuk's pocket aces.

"Most of the ladies are really good players and it was hard to win," Yasyuchenya said. "Of course, I was happy that it was two Russian girls heads-up."

$3,000 buy-in | 42 entries | $112,518 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Elena Yasyuchenya	Russia	$35,500
2	Kseniia Kolotiuk	Russia	$25,500
3	Lili Tang	China	$16,318
4	Jessica Teusl	Austria	$12,400
5	Ye Yi	China	$9,600
6	Zhao Yue	China	$7,300
7	Yuan Yiwen	China	$5,900

Yan Jingyao Wins Event #7: $4,000 NLH 7-Handed Big Bounty

China's Yan Jingyao won the $4,000 NLH 7-Handed Big Bounty on November 8 for $41,000, plus $10,000 in bounties. The event drew 96 entries, including 25 re-entries, for a $157,152 prize pool, with a further $192,000 going into bounties of $2,000 per knockout. Yan is no stranger to the Triton tables, with eight Super High Roller Series cashes in Jeju, including two final tables.

Yan started the seven-handed final fourth in chips with 21 big blinds, but took over after cracking Kalle Parkkinen's ace-nine with five-four and rivering a set of tens to bust countryman Zheng Xiaosheng in fourth. He took a two-to-one lead into heads-up against USA's TJ Reid, the poker reporter turned pro who won $3 million at the WSOP Super Main Event in the Bahamas last December. It ended when Yan flopped a flush with seven-three on an ace-nine-deuce board and Reid's nut flush draw failed to improve. Reid took $28,000 plus $8,000 in bounties, and Austria's Siegfried Friedl was third for $18,400. Fourteen places were paid.

$4,000 buy-in | 96 entries | $157,152 prize pool | $192,000 in bounties

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Yan Jingyao	China	$41,000
2	TJ Reid	United States	$28,000
3	Siegfried Friedl	Austria	$18,400
4	Xiaosheng Zheng	China	$14,800
5	Kalle Parkkinen	Finland	$11,900
6	Roman Stoika	Russia	$9,400
7	Renji Mao	China	$7,500
8	Lei Yu	China	$5,600
9	Hengtao Zhu	Finland	$4,152
10	Aleksei Savenkov	Russia	$3,400
11	Parahat Nurmuhammedov	Turkmenistan	$3,300
12	Tony Ren Lin	China	$3,300
13	Toni Kaukua	Finland	$3,200
14	Mario Diaz Quilez	Spain	$3,200

Bounties won are not included in the prizes above.

Benedek Farkas Wins Event #9: $10,000 NLH 7-Handed

The biggest score of the festival so far went to 22-year-old Benedek Farkas, and he did it the hard way. The $10,000 NLH 7-Handed drew 324 entries, including 101 re-entries, for a $2,945,484 prize pool, and Hungary's Farkas went from third in chips at the start of the final table to champion on November 11, after the event needed a third day, taking home $572,000, the first six-figure live score of his career.

Russia's Dmitrii Kukhtarev started the final day with more than 40% of the chips in play and looked unstoppable when he busted his countrymate Igor Provkin in third place ($261,484), his ace-ten beating Provkin's pocket fours. That left Farkas with just seven big blinds against roughly 100 for Kukhtarev. Farkas won five of the first six hands, then doubled up when his queen-eight made a full house and Kukhtarev kept betting with trip eights. He took the lead with a brave hero call holding six-five on an ace-queen-high board, catching Kukhtarev with bottom pair. In the final hand, Farkas's five-four turned a straight on a 7-5-3-6 board, and Kukhtarev's ten-seven made two pair on the river, too late, as Kukhtarev called Farkas's shove and settled for $362,000 as runner-up.

The win multiplied Farkas's previous best live result by a factor of 10. Singapore's Wu Jun Hao, who won the $15,000 Triton ONE High Roller in Jeju, finished seventh for $96,000.

$10,000 buy-in | 324 entries | $2,945,484 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Benedek Farkas	Hungary	$572,000
2	Dmitrii Kukhtarev	Russia	$362,000
3	Igor Provkin	Russia	$261,484
4	Yu Zhang	China	$211,000
5	Cedric Schwaederle	France	$168,000
6	Lyudmil Ivanov	Bulgaria	$128,000
7	Wu Jun Hao	Singapore	$96,000
8	Elizabeth Chen	China	$70,000
9	Symeon Alexandridis	Greece	$55,000
10	Ruslan Kasper	Russia	$44,500
11	Aleksei Savenkov	Russia	$44,500
12	Lei Yu	China	$36,500
13	Damir Zhugralin	Kazakhstan	$36,500
14	Xuan Liu	Canada	$36,500
15	Aliaksei Miliutkin	Belarus	$32,500
16	Jeremie Zouari	France	$32,500
17	Dmitrii Kravchenko	Russia	$32,500
18	Ye Yi	China	$29,000
19	Mantas Bagocius	Lithuania	$29,000
20	Yan Jingyao	China	$29,000
21	Joao Vieira	Portugal	$26,000
22	Dominykas Mikolaitis	Lithuania	$26,000
23	Samuel Mullur	Austria	$26,000
24	Konstantin Voronin	Russia	$23,000
25	Martynas Vitkauskas	Lithuania	$23,000
26	Toni Kaukua	Finland	$23,000
27	Ecet Aimukhanov	Kazakhstan	$23,000
28	Jeremy Chan	Malaysia	$20,000
29	Anatoly Zlotnikov	Russia	$20,000
30	Paul Phua	Malaysia	$20,000
31	Raoul Kanme	Netherlands	$20,000
32	Ander Vallinas	Spain	$20,000
33	Mekan Yusupov	Turkmenistan	$20,000
34	Alexey Borovkov	Russia	$20,000
35	Akihiro Konishi	Japan	$17,000
36	Bin Duan	China	$17,000
37	Oleksii Kravchuk	Ukraine	$17,000
38	Matiss Celmins	Latvia	$17,000
39	Sebastian Gaehl	Germany	$17,000
40	Yang Wang	China	$17,000
41	Artur Martirosian	Russia	$17,000
42	Nenad Dukic	Serbia	$15,000
43	Axel Hallay	France	$15,000
44	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	$15,000
45	Danesh Zargaran	Iran	$15,000
46	Teeraphat Rangkatekarn	Thailand	$15,000
47	Gilles Simon	Netherlands	$15,000
48	Yannick Schumacher	Germany	$15,000
49	Dan Dvoress	Canada	$15,000
50	Zhuoqun Zhang	China	$15,000
51	Ignas Jasinevicius	Lithuania	$15,000
52	Natan Chauskin	[COUNTRY]	$15,000
53	Siarhei Tsishkin	[COUNTRY]	$15,000
54	David Kaufmann	Germany	$15,000
55	Aleksandr Kropotov	Russia	$15,000

Elena Iakovleva Wins Event #11: $2,000 One-W Night NLH Bounty Quattro

Russia's Elena Iakovleva won the second women's event on the schedule, the $2,000 One-W Night NLH Bounty Quattro, for $17,400, including $6,000 in bounties, in her first Triton ONE cash. The event drew 23 entries, including five re-entries, for a $42,596 prize pool that included $12,000 in bounties. China's Liao Wenyan was runner-up for $9,800 including bounties, and Zhao Yue, sixth in the One-W Championship, finished third for $8,896 including bounties. Yasyuchenya finished fifth, less than 48 hours after her Championship win.

$2,000 buy-in | 23 entries | $30,596 prize pool | $12,000 in bounties

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Elena Iakovleva	Russia	$11,400
2	Liao Wenyan	China	$7,800
3	Zhao Yue	China	$4,896
4	Silvia Radulova	Bulgaria	$3,500
5	Elena Yasyuchenya	Russia	$3,000

Bounties won are not included in the prizes above.

Nikolai Kanunikov Wins Event #13: $6,000 PLO 6-Handed

Russia's Nikolai Kanunikov made a dream Triton debut, winning the $6,000 PLO 6-Handed on November 11 for $178,000 in his first ever event on the series. The first PLO event on the Triton ONE schedule drew 138 entries, including 54 re-entries, for a $766,590 prize pool, more than 50% bigger than either of the PLO events held at Triton ONE in Jeju.

Kanunikov lived up to his "ace-cracker" billing from the start, bursting the bubble when his nine-nine-eight-six went runner-runner straight against Finland's Juho Suutari's aces. Zhou Quan dominated much of the seven-handed final, and France's Julien Sitbon survived against Zhou's aces with a one-outer, rivering a fourth king for quads to take the chip lead. After the dinner break, Kanunikov and Zhou both had pocket aces, and Kanunikov made trip threes to double. Moments later he busted Zhou ($66,090) and Sitbon ($80,500) in the same hand, when his eight-seven-six flopped a set against Sitbon's top pair and Zhou's aces.

That gave Kanunikov a 60 to 9 big blind lead over Uzbekistan's Artur Teshaev, and it ended with one more pair of aces cracked. Kanunikov's king-ten-seven flopped two pair and turned a full house on an 8-7-K-K board against Teshaev's aces. Teshaev, who came up empty in three Triton ONE events in Jeju, took $120,000 for second. Argentina's Nacho Barbero, a four-time Super High Roller Series winner, finished sixth for $41,000, and Triton ambassador Danny Tang bubbled the final table in eighth when his double-suited aces were cracked by Zhou.

$6,000 buy-in | 138 entries | $766,590 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Nikolai Kanunikov	Russia	$178,000
2	Artur Teshaev	Uzbekistan	$120,000
3	Julien Sitbon	France	$80,500
4	Zhou Quan	China	$66,090
5	Tommi Lankinen	Finland	$53,000
6	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	$41,000
7	Said Butba	Russia	$30,500
8	Danny Tang	Hong Kong	$22,500
9	Akhliddin Bakhriddini	Russia	$17,500
10	Vadzim Godzdanker	Belarus	$15,000
11	Danielle Noja	Australia	$15,000
12	Shyngis Satubayev	Kazakhstan	$12,500
13	Enis Yuda	Portugal	$12,500
14	Artsiom Lasouski	Belarus	$12,500
15	Pavel Izotov	Belarus	$11,000
16	Nikolai Fal	Russia	$11,000
17	Alexandre Reard	France	$11,000
18	Roman Kolotiuk	Russia	$9,500
19	Imad Derwiche	France	$9,500
20	Bakhrom Saitov	Uzbekistan	$9,500
21	Giorgii Skhulukhiia	Russia	$9,500
22	Artur Martirosian	Russia	$9,500
23	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	$9,500

Ander Vallinas Wins Event #16: $2,000 One Night NLH 8-Handed

Spain's Ander Vallinas finally got his hands on a Triton ONE trophy, beating Russia's Sergey Rumyantsev heads-up to win the $2,000 One Night NLH 8-Handed for $61,000. The event drew 143 entries for a $264,836 prize pool. Vallinas took the most money from the Triton ONE Main Event in Jeju in March after a deal but lost heads-up to Zhao Wenjie, so this win was a long time coming, and it extended his lead on the Player ONE leaderboard. Thailand's Punnat Punsri, who was fourth in the Mystery Bounty, finished third for $28,000.

$2,000 buy-in | 143 entries | $264,836 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Ander Vallinas	Spain	$61,000
2	Sergey Rumyantsev	Russia	$42,000
3	Punnat Punsri	Thailand	$28,000
4	Toni Kaukua	Finland	$23,000
5	Nguyen Huu Dung	Vietnam	$18,300
6	Chen Weitao	China	$14,136
7	Aleksandr Razinkov	Russia	$10,500
8	Boris Angelov	Bulgaria	$7,700
9	Ilia Mikhailov	Russia	$6,100
10	Ara Ambardanian	Russia	$5,000
11	Benjamin Winsor	United Kingdom	$5,000
12	Eero Abbey	Finland	$4,500
13	Konstantin Voronin	Russia	$4,500
14	Yiannis Liperis	United Kingdom	$4,100
15	Anatoly Zlotnikov	Russia	$4,100
16	Ruslan Galiullin	Russia	$3,700
17	Kalle Parkkinen	Finland	$3,700
18	Miroslav Rizov	Bulgaria	$3,400
19	Renji Mao	China	$3,400
20	Aren Bezhanyan	Armenia	$3,400
21	Rustam Amirbekov	Russia	$3,100
22	Igor Picone	Belgium	$3,100
23	Lavrentiy Ni	Kazakhstan	$3,100

Gergo Nagy Wins Event #17: $3,000 PLO 6-Handed

Hungary's Gergo Nagy joined the growing list of players to win on both the Super High Roller Series and Triton ONE in the early hours of November 12, winning the $3,000 PLO 6-Handed for $56,000. The event drew 76 entries for a $211,052 prize pool, and Nagy beat Russia's Georgii Klenin ($38,900) heads-up. Nagy's two previous Triton wins both came in PLO at the Super High Roller Series in Jeju: a $50,000 6-Handed in March 2025 and a single-night Bounty Quattro in September 2025. Fellow Super High Roller Series champion Robert Cowen was knocked out in seventh, and Wu Jun Hao made another deep run, finishing third for $25,500, while former Super High Roller Series winners Artsiom Lasouski and Artur Martirosian busted on the same bubble hand and split the $4,500 min-cash.

$3,000 buy-in | 76 entries | $211,052 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Gergo Nagy	Hungary	$56,000
2	Georgii Klenin	Russia	$38,900
3	Wu Jun Hao	Singapore	$25,500
4	Shlomo Hazut	Israel	$20,052
5	Roman Kolotiuk	Russia	$16,200
6	Pedjman Hamie	Germany	$12,500
7	Robert Cowen	United Kingdom	$9,900
8	Marcel Grubinger	Austria	$7,700
9	Virgile Turchi	France	$5,700
10	Nikolaos Lampropoulos	Greece	$4,800
11	Jessica Teusl	Austria	$4,800
12	Sampo Ryynaenen	Finland	$4,500
13	Artsiom Lasouski	Belarus	$2,250
14	Artur Martirosian	Russia	$2,250

$8,000 Triton ONE Main Event Passes $5.9 Million

The $8,000 Triton ONE Main Event is the centerpiece of the festival, and it is delivering. Day 1A drew 263 entries and Day 1B a further 363, and with the third and final starting flight, Day 1C, under way on November 12 and late registration still open, the event had already reached 824 entries and a $5,992,952 prize pool, with 302 players still in contention, according to PokerNews live reporting.

Russia's Damir Gabdullin led Day 1A, scoring the first elimination of the day in Level 1 and bagging 4,515,000 of the 46 stacks that advanced. American high-stakes mainstay Isaac Haxton, who has 75 Super High Roller Series cashes but is still chasing a first Triton ONE title, was second with 3,440,000, ahead of France's Axel Hallay (2,900,000). Triton founder Paul Phua (1,565,000) and two-time Triton ONE champion Ngo Khoa Anh (690,000) also made Day 2.

Day 1B belonged to Yan Jingyao. Just three days after winning the $4,000 Big Bounty, the Chinese player bagged 4,130,000, the only stack above four million among the 73 survivors. Turkey's Kursad Bayrakci (3,300,000) and five-time Super High Roller Series champion Mikita Badziakouski (2,965,000) were next, and fellow Cyprus champions Alin Ivan (950,000) and Benedek Farkas (465,000) also advanced, along with TJ Reid and Ihar Soika in the top ten. Defending champion Zhao Wenjie fired on Day 1B but did not survive the day.

Survivors from all three starting flights combine for Day 2 on November 13, and the champion will be crowned on Sunday, November 15.

$8,000 buy-in | Day 1A: 263 entries | 46 survivors advancing

Position	Player	Country	Chips
1	Damir Gabdullin	Russia	4,515,000
2	Isaac Haxton	United States	3,440,000
3	Axel Hallay	France	2,900,000
4	Ignas Jasinevicius	Lithuania	2,750,000
5	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	2,060,000
6	Mahmoud Bedoui	Germany	2,000,000
7	Choon Tong Siow	Malaysia	1,995,000
7	Ren Lin	China	1,995,000
9	Nang Quang Nguyen	Vietnam	1,900,000
10	Congya Zhang	China	1,875,000

$8,000 buy-in | Day 1B: 363 entries | 73 survivors advancing

Position	Player	Country	Chips
1	Yan Jingyao	China	4,130,000
2	Kursad Bayrakci	Turkey	3,300,000
3	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	2,965,000
4	Rafael Navas	Spain	2,900,000
5	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	2,815,000
6	Marcelo Aziz	Brazil	2,585,000
7	Eero Abbey	Finland	2,565,000
8	Andreas Christoforou	Cyprus	2,155,000
9	TJ Reid	United States	2,035,000
10	Ihar Soika	Belarus	2,025,000

What's Next: $15,000 Triton ONE High Roller and Super High Roller Series

The $3,000 NLH 8-Handed Quest finishes on November 12, alongside the $5,000 One Day NLH 7-Handed and the $2,000 One Night PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro. The $15,000 Triton ONE High Roller follows with starting flights on November 13 and 14 and a final on November 15, the same day as the Main Event final. Then the high rollers take over, with the Triton Super High Roller Series running from November 15-30. The full schedule is in our Triton Northern Cyprus preview.

Triton ONE North Cyprus 2026: Winners So Far

Tournament	Winner	Prize
Event #1: $3,000 QQPK Genesis	Alin Ivan	$450,000
Event #2: $2,000 One Night NLH Bounty Quattro	Ran Azor	$29,000
Event #3: $5,000 NLH 8-Handed Mystery Bounty	Zhou Quan	$293,000
Event #6: $3,000 One-W Championship	Elena Yasyuchenya	$35,500
Event #7: $4,000 NLH 7-Handed Big Bounty	Yan Jingyao	$41,000
Event #9: $10,000 NLH 7-Handed	Benedek Farkas	$572,000
Event #11: $2,000 One-W Night NLH Bounty Quattro	Elena Iakovleva	$11,400
Event #13: $6,000 PLO 6-Handed	Nikolai Kanunikov	$178,000
Event #16: $2,000 One Night NLH 8-Handed	Ander Vallinas	$61,000
Event #17: $3,000 PLO 6-Handed	Gergo Nagy	$56,000

Triton ONE North Cyprus 2026: Full Schedule

Triton ONE North Cyprus runs 22 events across 11 days, with event numbers #4, #14 and #24 not used on the published schedule. Alongside the trophy events, five $1,500 Main Event Qualifiers (#5, #8, #10, #15 and #19) have been played on the evenings of November 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, giving players a cheaper route into the $8,000 Main Event, which is Event #12.

Thursday, November 12 sees the conclusion of the $3,000 NLH 8-Handed Quest and the final starting flight of the Main Event, with the $5,000 One Day NLH 7-Handed at 1 p.m. and the $2,000 One Night PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro at 10 p.m. Friday brings Main Event Day 2, the first flight of the $15,000 High Roller and a $2,100 High Roller Qualifier, before Saturday's second High Roller flight, Main Event Day 3 and the $5,000 One Night NLH Bounty Quattro.

It all ends on Sunday, November 15, with the final days of both the Main Event and the High Roller. The QQPK Genesis, Mystery Bounty, and $10,000 NLH 7-Handed each needed an extra day to finish, and those added final days are marked in the table. All times are local (GMT+3).

Date	Time	Event
Nov. 5	12:00 p.m.	Event #1: $3,000 QQPK Genesis, Day 1A
	6:00 p.m.	Event #1: $3,000 QQPK Genesis, Day 1B
Nov. 6	12:00 p.m.	Event #1: $3,000 QQPK Genesis, Day 1C
	6:00 p.m.	Event #1: $3,000 QQPK Genesis, Day 1D
	9:00 p.m.	Event #2: $2,000 One Night NLH Bounty Quattro
Nov. 7	12:00 p.m.	Event #1: $3,000 QQPK Genesis, Day 2
	2:00 p.m.	Event #3: $5,000 NLH 8-Handed Mystery Bounty, Day 1A
	7:00 p.m.	Event #5: $1,500 Main Event Qualifier
Nov. 8	12:00 p.m.	Event #1: $3,000 QQPK Genesis, Final Day (added)
	12:00 p.m.	Event #3: $5,000 NLH 8-Handed Mystery Bounty, Day 1B
	12:00 p.m.	Event #6: $3,000 One-W Championship
	1:00 p.m.	Event #7: $4,000 NLH 7-Handed Big Bounty
	7:00 p.m.	Event #8: $1,500 Main Event Qualifier
Nov. 9	12:00 p.m.	Event #3: $5,000 NLH 8-Handed Mystery Bounty, Day 2
	4:00 p.m.	Event #9: $10,000 NLH 7-Handed, Day 1
	9:00 p.m.	Event #10: $1,500 Main Event Qualifier
	10:00 p.m.	Event #11: $2,000 One-W Night NLH Bounty Quattro
Nov. 10	12:00 p.m.	Event #12: $8,000 Triton ONE Main Event, Day 1A
	12:00 p.m.	Event #9: $10,000 NLH 7-Handed, Day 2
	12:00 p.m.	Event #3: $5,000 NLH 8-Handed Mystery Bounty, Final Day (added)
	2:00 p.m.	Event #13: $6,000 PLO 6-Handed, Day 1
	7:00 p.m.	Event #15: $1,500 Main Event Qualifier
	10:00 p.m.	Event #16: $2,000 One Night NLH 8-Handed
Nov. 11	12:00 p.m.	Event #12: $8,000 Triton ONE Main Event, Day 1B
	12:00 p.m.	Event #9: $10,000 NLH 7-Handed, Final Day (added)
	12:00 p.m.	Event #13: $6,000 PLO 6-Handed, Final Day
	2:00 p.m.	Event #17: $3,000 PLO 6-Handed
	3:00 p.m.	Event #18: $3,000 NLH 8-Handed Quest, Day 1
	10:00 p.m.	Event #19: $1,500 Main Event Qualifier
Nov. 12	11:00 a.m.	Event #18: $3,000 NLH 8-Handed Quest, Final Day
	12:00 p.m.	Event #12: $8,000 Triton ONE Main Event, Day 1C
	1:00 p.m.	Event #20: $5,000 One Day NLH 7-Handed
	10:00 p.m.	Event #21: $2,000 One Night PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro
Nov. 13	12:00 p.m.	Event #12: $8,000 Triton ONE Main Event, Day 2
	3:00 p.m.	Event #22: $15,000 Triton ONE High Roller, Day 1A
	10:00 p.m.	Event #23: $2,100 High Roller Qualifier
Nov. 14	12:00 p.m.	Event #12: $8,000 Triton ONE Main Event, Day 3
	12:00 p.m.	Event #22: $15,000 Triton ONE High Roller, Day 1B
	10:00 p.m.	Event #25: $5,000 One Night NLH Bounty Quattro
Nov. 15	12:00 p.m.	Event #12: $8,000 Triton ONE Main Event, Final Day
	12:00 p.m.	Event #22: $15,000 Triton ONE High Roller, Final Day

Triton ONE North Cyprus 2026: FAQ

• Photos, hands, and quotes courtesy of Triton Poker.
• Career poker data courtesy of The Hendon Mob.
• The article was originally produced at poker.pro.