Danny Tang Gets Emotional After Winning $3.5 Million in Triton Main Event

Triton ambassador Danny Tang received his second tour Major Occasion title as he took down the $100,000 buy-in Major Occasion on the Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence in Montenegro for a career-best $3,522,000.

Tang, who beforehand received 2023’s $50,000 Brief Deck Maintain’em Major Occasion in Cyprus for $750,000, provides to his $38.8 million in Hendon Mob earnings and maintains his first-place spot on the Hong Kong all-time cash listing after defeating heads-up opponent Klemens Roiter.

The occasion drew 159 runners for a prize pool of $15,900,000. The stacked remaining desk included quite a lot of notable high-stakes crushers, together with Poker Corridor of Famer Patrik Antonius (seventh – $595,000), Bulgarian high-stakes professional Alex Kulev (eighth – $431,000) and German wunderkind Leon Sturm (4th – $1,636,000).

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“Triton is in My Blood”

The 33-year-old bought visibility emotional after the ultimate hand was dealt, burying his head in his arms on the desk amid celebratory fog and strobe lights.

“It did not go my approach final time (earlier within the sequence), however immediately, redemption,” Tang advised Triton in a winner’s interview.

It was no simple path to redemption. Tang held the chip lead at one level however surrendered most of his stack after operating an enormous bluff in opposition to third-place finisher Ye Wang ($1,636,000).

“Once I went all the way down to seven BBs after bluffing Wang Ye earlier, I used to be, ‘Urgh, man, I blew one other chip lead, one other great spot,'” Tang advised Triton. “However then I bought fortunate, I stored myself collectively, and stored combating. I stated to myself, ‘If I can double up as soon as, I am on this.’ And finally playing cards went my approach.'”

Tang overcame a heads-up deficit earlier than a remaining hand the place he limp-called on the button with ace-jack as Roiter jammed with ace-seven. A protected runout confirmed his victory within the Montenegro Major Occasion after ending runner-up in the identical occasion in 2019 to Bryn Kenney for a earlier career-high rating of $1.8 million.

“Even heads-up I used to be an enormous canine. I used to be saying to my buddies I’ve no strain,” stated Tang. “Once I began to take the lead heads-up, I did not wish to have expectation once more, however I may really feel it was going very easy. I had one pip higher than him. I used to be making arms. He is an unbelievable participant, however playing cards went my approach immediately.”

The Triton ambassador additionally gave a shoutout to the premiere high-stakes poker model: “Triton is in my blood, in my veins. I really like Triton. My profession wouldn’t have been what it’s with out Mr Paul [Phua] and the entire Triton household.”

Tang is not the one younger professional to shine on the Triton Montenegro pageant. Earlier within the sequence, 31-year-old Adrian Mateos shipped the $200,000 Triton Invitational for $6,370,000, transferring to seventh on the poker all-time cash listing.

Try the total Triton Montenegro Major Occasion remaining desk stream on the Triton YouTube channel.

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Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 World Poker Awards for his writing.