‘Rampage’ Busts on Brutal Runner-Runner Bad Beat at Triton Poker Final Table

Ethan “Rampage” Yau had his opponent drawing almost useless earlier than a runner-runner dangerous beat that despatched the poker vlogger house in eighth place on the Triton Poker Montenegro ultimate desk on Friday.

The participant who benefited from the dangerous beat — Anatoly Zlotnikov — would go on to win the no-limit maintain’em occasion for $715,000 after defeating Maher Nouira heads-up. A complete of 119 entries, together with among the greatest names within the recreation, competed within the second occasion of the sequence. There have been many huge fingers and a few loopy dangerous beats proven on the Triton livestream, however none extra brutal than one suffered by Rampage.

Poker Vlogger’s Tough Ending That Advantages Champ

Rampage has a “punting” repute in money video games and tournaments, which is not at all times warranted. He is been on a mission to turn out to be the winningest match participant in his house U.S. state, Massachusetts. To date in 2026, he is been on the proper path and is off to a powerful begin to the 12 months.

That stable play carried over to the $25,000 NLH occasion in Montenegro as he reached the ultimate eight gamers and was ready to double-up. Rampage, who initially raised to 450,000 with A♠Okay♥, known as an all-in wager from the bigger-stacked Zlotnikov’s A♣4♣.

The flop could not have gone significantly better for Rampage, because it got here Okay♣Q♦J♠, leaving his opponent drawing solely to runner-runners. Zlotnikov picked up a little bit of hope with the 4♦ on the flip, though the eventual champ was down to only two outs, and he’d hit certainly one of them with the 4♥ on the river for journeys.

Rampage calmly exited the match space and went to gather his $92,000 for eighth place. He almost quadrupled his buy-in, however a double-up would have put him in place to win a ton extra.

Closing Desk Outcomes

To make issues worse for Yau, Mikita Badziakouski had simply two huge blinds when he known as the all in. Badziakouski was quickly eradicated in seventh place for $125,000, receiving a pay leap because of the runner-runner dangerous beat hand.

Hannes Jeschka was then eradicated in sixth place for $166,000, adopted by PokerStars and Triton Poker ambassador Jason Koon in fifth place for $212,500, Curtis Knight in fourth place for $265,000, and Yu zhang in third place for $321,000.

That started heads-up play with Zlotnikov holding a 2:1 chip benefit. However Nouira did not again down in opposition to the chip chief and gave the Russian a battle. The match, nevertheless, would finish when Nouira went all in with A♥5♣ and was forward of 10♦9♣, proper up till the board ran out 5♥3♠9♠8♠7♥ to finish the match.

Nouira needed to accept second place and $486,000, whereas Zlotnikov took the trophy and the $715,000 first-place prize.

Dvoress Wins First Triton Montenegro Occasion

Zlotnikov is not the one winner so far in Montenegro. Canadian star Daniel Dvoress accomplished a exceptional trifecta by taking down the $25,000 NLHE Golden Decade, the sequence opener occasion, for $849,000. Dvoress, who lately broke by means of $50 million in dwell match earnings, gained the most important share of the $3,650,000 prize pool within the 146-entrant area.

His victory was spectacular in its personal proper, however with it, the champ has now gained Triton occasions in No-Restrict Maintain’em, Pot-Restrict Omaha, and Brief Deck.

Closing Desk Outcomes

Talking shortly after defeating Dejan Kaladjurdjevic heads-up to finish his Triton hat trick, Dvoress mentioned, “I am very proud. It is nice, clearly. It’s type of humorous that it took me perpetually to get my first Triton trophy to start with, and so they got here in Brief Deck, then PLO, after which Brief Deck. I’ve typically been a no-limit specialist. I’ve not been taking part in the opposite two video games for very lengthy. So it feels good to lastly get this one.”

Photographs courtesy of Triton Poker Collection.