Vietnam’s Ngo Khoa Anh won the $25,000 NLH Titi Poker for $1,090,000 from 210 entries ($5,250,000 prize pool) and Belarus’ Alex Boika won the $25,000 NLH 8-Handed for $761,000 from 131 entries ($3,275,000 prize pool) as the 2026 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju II produced its third and fourth maiden Triton champions in five days. Both events concluded on September 8 at Les A Casino on Jeju Island, South Korea. Then there is the story of Reda Achnit. Four maiden champions. A freeroll qualifier from Morocco cashing in his first-ever live tournament. The week of first-timers continues.
Ngo Khoa Anh Wins Event #3: $25,000 NLH Titi Poker for $1,090,000
Ngo Khoa Anh started the final table sixth in chips. He finished it $1,090,000 richer and with a Triton trident in his hands.
The Vietnamese player’s Triton journey is worth understanding before getting to the final table. He won a $2,000 NLH turbo at Triton ONE’s debut stop in September 2025 for $58,700. He came back for the $10,000 NLH 7-Handed at Triton ONE Jeju in March 2026, arrived at that final table with six big blinds, and won $612,000. Now he has added the $25,000 NLH Titi Poker on the Super High Roller Series for $1,090,000. He is only the second Vietnamese champion in Triton history, the first player ever to win two Triton ONE events, and the first to graduate from Triton ONE to the Super High Roller Series with a title. The $1,090,000 represents 56% of his entire recorded Triton earnings to that point, and pushed his career live earnings past $4 million per The Hendon Mob.
The event drew 210 entries (128 unique players, 82 re-entries) for a $5,250,000 prize pool with 34 places paid and a $43,500 minimum cash. The event bears the name of Triton’s new official online poker partner, Titi Poker, who added a last-longer: the player finishing highest while wearing the Titi Poker patch would win a free $25,000 buy-in to the corresponding event at Triton North Cyprus in November. Four of the nine finalists wore it.
David Coleman, a WSOP bracelet winner from New Jersey with over $20 million in career cashes, arrived at the nine-handed final table with 122 big blinds and more than double anyone else in chips. He min-raised with king-jack in the first significant pot of the day, Ngo three-bet with pocket aces from the button, and Coleman jammed into a hand he had no way to beat. That double set the tone. Coleman never recovered and went out fifth for $330,000 when his king-queen ran into Aren Bezhanyan’s ace-king.
Aren Bezhanyan held the chip lead after Coleman’s exit, then ran ace-king into ace-king and lost the flush to Isaac Haxton’s superior kicker in one of the crueler ways you can exit a pot. He rebuilt. Then his queens ran into Ngo’s jack-nine on a nine-eight-seven-four-eight board. Four spades fell, Ngo made the flush, and Bezhanyan was out in fourth for $417,000. Haxton went in third for $515,000 when Ngo’s ace-seven was ahead of his ace-three and stayed there.
Heads-up, Ngo led Anatoly Filatov and the two could not agree on numbers. Eight hands later the tournament was over. Ngo limped eight-five on the button, flopped top pair, Filatov check-raised with queen-eight, and the five on the turn gave Ngo two pair. Filatov, who won the equivalent event at Triton Jeju the previous year making him the most decorated player in this specific tournament’s short history, collected $733,000 for second. He also won the Titi Poker last-longer: a free $25,000 seat to the North Cyprus edition in November, on top of his $733,000.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Ngo Khoa Anh | Vietnam | $1,090,000 |
| 2nd |  Anatoly Filatov | Russia | $733,000 |
| 3rd |  Isaac Haxton | United States | $515,000 |
| 4th |  Aren Bezhanyan | Armenia | $417,000 |
| 5th | David Coleman | United States | $330,000 |
| 6th |  Joe Hindry | United Kingdom | $250,000 |
| 7th |  Chu Chi-Jen | Taiwan | $184,000 |
| 8th |  Batmunkh Unubukh | Mongolia | $134,000 |
| 9th |  Thomas Boivin | Belgium | $111,000 |
Alex Boika Wins Event #5: $25,000 NLH 8-Handed for $761,000
Events #3 and #5 ran simultaneously for much of Sunday. While Ngo was finishing off Filatov in one corner of Les A Casino, Alex Boika was putting the finishing touches on his own maiden Triton title in another.
Boika, whose full name is Aliaksei Boika, is Belarusian and one of the most consistent performers on the Triton circuit without ever winning. The EPT Malta Main Event champion of 2016, famous for calling a massive all-in on the final hand with only ace-high, had $8,295,059 in career earnings before this event, with his two biggest scores both at this same venue: $1,313,000 for runner-up in a $60,000 event at the March 2026 Jeju stop, and $1,288,000 for sixth in the $100,000 Main Event. Everything except the trophy. That changed when he took $761,000 from 131 entries worth $3,275,000, defeating Philip Sternheimer heads-up, pushing his career earnings past $9 million per The Hendon Mob. He told the Triton team afterward that it was one of the greatest things a poker player can achieve and that he was speechless. He had every right to be.
Seth Davies, the WPT champion with a 2025 WSOP $250,000 Super High Roller bracelet to his name, entered the final table as chip leader. The heads-up battle the field was set up for never arrived. Davies ran pocket eights into Yu Lei’s aces and doubled him up. Left short, he then ran queen-seven into Yu’s ten-nine suited and lost. He went out fifth for $226,000, pushing his career earnings past $47 million.
Four of the last five players were chasing a first Triton title. Sternheimer had eight cashes without a win. Yu Lei and Nevan Chang were likewise still looking. Lithuania’s Vladas Tamasauskas, a two-time Poker Masters champion and one of the strongest Triton regulars on the circuit, was the first eliminated from the final table for $130,000. Germany’s Manuel Fritz followed. Boika knocked Chang out in fourth with pocket queens against pocket sixes, moved ahead of Sternheimer in the count, and took a nearly two-to-one chip lead into heads-up.
The final hand: Sternheimer opened nine-seven of hearts, Boika defended with jack-six offsuit. Both checked the eight-five-three flop. A jack landed on the turn. Sternheimer bet, Boika raised, Sternheimer jammed. Boika called with top pair. The river was blank and the trophy was his. Boika had misread his holding going into the hand but found himself in front regardless and held on.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Aliaksei Boika | Belarus | $761,000 |
| 2nd | Philip Sternheimer | United Kingdom | $516,000 |
| 3rd |  Yu Lei | China | $362,000 |
| 4th |  Nevan Chang | Canada | $282,000 |
| 5th | Seth Davies | United States | $226,000 |
| 6th | Mingcong Chen | China | $178,000 |
| 7th |  Manuel Fritz | Germany | $130,000 |
| 8th |  Vladas Tamasauskas | Lithuania | $130,000 |
The Best Feel-Good Story of the Festival: Reda Achnit
Put the results aside for a moment.
Reda Achnit is a 24-year-old computer engineering graduate from Morocco. He plays poker online at micro-stakes, mainly for fun. He had never sat in a live poker game. He had never been on a plane. He was watching a Triton stream from his parents’ house when he spotted a CoinPoker freeroll promotion with a prize nobody in his position was supposed to win: a trip to Jeju and a $25,000 buy-in to a Triton Super High Roller event. He entered anyway. He won.
He won it alone, late at night, on his laptop at his parents’ house. He sat there afterward not quite processing what had just happened, then went and found his brother. His family did not know what poker was. He had to explain. He had to arrange vacation days from his new job. He had to get on a plane for the first time, business class through Doha, and check into a hotel in Jeju where he was a corridor away from players he had previously only ever seen on a screen.
Achnit was partly inspired to enter the freeroll by watching Morocco’s Mehdi Chaoui on the Triton circuit. When he arrived in Jeju, Chaoui came to meet him. Achnit then stood on Chaoui’s rail as he made the Event #2 final table. By the time his own tournament started, Achnit was not just a spectator anymore.
He cashed. He was eliminated in 14th place for $51,000 by Seth Davies, the WPT champion, Triton title winner, and WSOP bracelet holder. His total winnings from this trip: $51,000, from a freeroll, in his first live tournament, on his first plane ride, against the best high-stakes players in the world.
Triton used it as the headline of their piece about him: “I don’t know how this happened, but it happened.”
It is the best story of the festival by a distance. Read Triton’s full profile on Achnit here.
What Is Still to Come
The $25,000 NLH Golden Decade (Event #4) is completing its final day today, September 9. The $30,000 NLH 8-Handed (Event #6) is also wrapping its final day, with Ben Tollerene, the two-time Triton champion with over $37 million in career earnings, having led the field overnight. Results from both will follow. Nine events remain through September 17, headlined by the $200,000 Triton Invitational (September 12-14) making its Asia debut, the $100,000 NLH Main Event (September 14-16), and the $150,000 10th Anniversary Special (September 16-17). Follow all the action at tritonpokerseries.com and on the Triton Poker Plus app.
Full Schedule
| Date | Time | Event | Buy-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri Sep 4 | 1 p.m. | Event #1: $15,000 NLH 8-Handed ✓ | $15,000 |
| Sat Sep 5 | 3 p.m. | Event #2: $20,000 NLH 8-Handed ✓ | $20,000 |
| Sun Sep 6 | 3 p.m. | Event #3: $25,000 NLH Titi Poker ✓ | $25,000 |
| Mon Sep 7 | 1 p.m. | Event #4: $25,000 NLH Golden Decade | $25,000 |
| Mon Sep 7 | 3 p.m. | Event #5: $25,000 NLH 8-Handed ✓ | $25,000 |
| Tue Sep 8 | 3 p.m. | Event #6: $30,000 NLH 8-Handed | $30,000 |
| Wed Sep 9 | 3 p.m. | Event #7: $40,000 Mystery Bounty 7-Handed Day 1 | $40,000 |
| Thu Sep 10 | 1 p.m. | Event #7: $40,000 Mystery Bounty 7-Handed Final Day | |
| Thu Sep 10 | 3 p.m. | Event #8: $50,000 NLH 8-Handed Day 1 | $50,000 |
| Fri Sep 11 | 12 p.m. | Event #8: $50,000 NLH 8-Handed Final Day | |
| Fri Sep 11 | 4 p.m. | Event #9: $30,000 NLH Turbo | $30,000 |
| Sat Sep 12 | 12 p.m. | Event #10: $200,000 Triton Invitational Day 1 | $200,000 |
| Sun Sep 13 | 12 p.m. | Event #10: $200,000 Triton Invitational Day 2 | |
| Sun Sep 13 | 5 p.m. | Event #11: $50,000 NLH 7-Handed Day 1 | $50,000 |
| Mon Sep 14 | 12 p.m. | Event #10: $200,000 Triton Invitational Final Day | |
| Mon Sep 14 | 1 p.m. | Event #11: $50,000 NLH 7-Handed Final Day | |
| Mon Sep 14 | 3 p.m. | Event #12: $100,000 NLH Main Event Day 1 | $100,000 |
| Tue Sep 15 | 1 p.m. | Event #12: $100,000 NLH Main Event Day 2 | |
| Tue Sep 15 | 5 p.m. | Event #13: $50,000 Turbo Bounty Quattro | $50,000 |
| Wed Sep 16 | 1 p.m. | Event #12: $100,000 NLH Main Event Day 3 | |
| Wed Sep 16 | 2 p.m. | Event #15: $150,000 10th Anniversary Special Day 1 | $150,000 |
| Thu Sep 17 | 12 p.m. | Event #15: $150,000 10th Anniversary Special Final Day | |
| Thu Sep 17 | 4 p.m. | Event #16: $30,000 NLH Turbo | $30,000 |
How to Watch
All final tables stream live on the Triton Poker Plus app with hole cards and a 60-minute delay. Replays go up on Triton Poker’s YouTube channel and Twitch after broadcast. Commentary throughout is from Kevin Rabichow, Henry Kilbane, and Randy Lew, with rotating special guests including Leon Sturm.
FAQ
- Information courtesy of Triton Poker Series and SoMuchPoker
- Photos courtesy of Triton Poker Series.
- Article originally produced at poker.pro.
