John Juanda Folds Quads But Still Bags $613,600 Triton Poker win
Legendary player, legendary luckbox or just a man with legendary friends? Whatever the reason, John Juanda is now a Triton Poker champion after taking down the HKD250k ($32,000) Short Deck Ante-Only event for $613,600 – and folding quads along the way!
By: Andrew Burnett
The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series has seen much bigger buy-ins this past week or so, but the action and suspense has been top-notch all the way, three Short Deck tournaments scheduled to close out another amazing series.
This one, the first of the trio, again featured many of the world’s best players – Daniel Jungleman Cates in the final table mix along with the series’ most consistent threesome of Daniel Dvoress, Paul Phua and Peter Jetten.
They were chasing a total prizepool of $1.95 million, with 65 entries including 29 re-entries boosting the cash and the 36-card variant ensuring that no-one was safe regardless of their hand.
Jungleman was the most obvious victim of the brutality of short deck, a double-blow seeing him firstly river a full house only to find Jetten had hit a bigger one, and then his aces got cracked by a rivered straight and it was goodbye in 6th spot for Cates.
Then came the fold of the series – probably the worst fold! – when Juanda laid down his quad sixes to Lebedev’s bluff, despite getting plenty of odds to make the call…
All’s well that ends well, however, as the Indonesian legend - 5-times WSOP bracelet winner – recovered from his mistake to see off Canada’s Daniel Dvoress heads-up to secure the trophy and the $613,600.
“It feels great,” Juanda said afterwards, adding: “Every time you win a tournament like this, it’s an amazing feeling.”
Final results
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1 |
John Juanda |
$613,600 |
|
2 |
Daniel Dvoress |
$410,800 |
|
3 |
Wai Kin Yong |
$279,500 |
|
4 |
Peter Jetten |
$210,600 |
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5 |
Sergey Lebedev |
$162,500 |
|
6 |
Daniel Cates |
$127,400 |
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7 |
Michael Soyza |
$101,400 |
|
8 |
Paul Phua |
$79,950 |