One other cease on the Triton Poker Sequence has wrapped, with over $100 million in prize cash awarded in Montenegro.
An astonishing 35 gamers cashed for at the very least $1,000,000 on the pageant, with 16 winners topped.
On this article, PokerNews takes a take a look at what that is performed to shake up the Season 5 Triton Participant of the 12 months race, and who’s in pole place to remove the celebrated Ivan Leow Participant of the 12 months Award.
Triton Season 5 Participant of the 12 months Leaderboard
1Dan DvoressCanada3,181
2Isaac HaxtonUnited States2,517
3Danny TangHong Kong2,405
4Matthias EibingerAustria2,156
5Aleks PonakovsLatvia2,089
6Punnat PunsriThailand2,050
7Ben TollereneUnited States2,039
8Daniel RezaeiAustria2,020
9Jason KoonUnited States1,993
10Michael WatsonCanada1,974
Appropriate as of June, 2026
Dvoress Unsurprisingly Surges in Entrance
There is no questioning that Daniel Dvoress did sufficient to sit down comfortably on the high of the leaderboard after Montenegro.
The Canadian’s hat trick of wins, together with two different cashes, netted him 1,741 factors. This was sufficient to elevate him above Isaac Haxton within the race for the Ivan Leow Participant of the 12 months Award.
After profitable the Golden Decade opener, Dvoress accomplished the Triton Trident with Triton titles in No-Restrict Maintain’em, Pot-Restrict Omaha, and Brief Deck.
He would go on so as to add the $100k PLO Foremost Occasion halfway by way of the sequence, earlier than rounding issues out with the ultimate occasion on the schedule: the $25K PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro for $367,500.
His lead over Haxton, who made two ultimate tables in Montenegro from his three cashes, is now as much as 664 factors. To place that into perspective, final 12 months’s Participant of the 12 months Artur Martirosian’s hole to second-place Alex Foxen was 700 factors.
The lead is certainly not insurmountable, however others will want comparable performances to place a dent in Dvoress. And that is earlier than you think about that Dvoress will not be performed this season.
Watson into High 10 After Montenegro Double
There was reward for Mike Watson on the Maestral Resort & On line casino, making six ultimate tables and profitable two titles, bringing his whole to seven Triton titles.
That leaves him tied with Matthias Eibinger, who additionally added a Triton Title in Montenegro, trailing solely Jason Koon’s 12 Triton titles within the all-time standings.
Eibinger was considered one of 5 gamers at the moment contained in the Participant of the 12 months standings to win Triton titles in Montenegro, together with Dvoress, Watson, Danny Tang; who received the $100,000 NLHE Foremost Occasion, and Aleksejs Ponakovs who received the $150,000 tenth Anniversary Particular.
Tollerene Making Strikes
Sitting comfortably in the midst of the High 10, Ben Tollerene may have made some actual strikes in Montenegro. And whereas he did not add a fifth Triton title to his poker resume, he made a superb strive of it.
Lower than three months after his Triton Jeju Foremost Occasion win in March, he completed with eight cashes, probably the most of another participant.
His highest end got here within the $30,000 NLHE/PLO the place he cashed in fifth for $127,000, whereas his greatest money got here within the $100,000 NLHE Foremost Occasion, ending 14th for $238,000.
Tollerene wasn’t the one participant contained in the POY High 10 making repeat visits to the payouts in Montenegro, with Jason Koon and Punnat Punsri securing seven cashes every, with each making six ultimate tables.
Triton Montenegro 2026 Full Outcomes
1$25,000 Golden Decade NLHDaniel Dvoress146$3,650,000$849,000
2$25,000 Eight-Handed NLHAnatoly Zlotnikov119$2,975,000$715,000
3$30,000 Eight-Handed NLHMario Mosboeck133$3,990,000$928,000
4$40,000 NLH Thriller BountyFedor Holz111$4,440,000$1,208,811
5$50,000 Eight-Handed NLHChristopher Nguyen132$6,600,000$1,535,000
6$30,000 NLH TurboMike Watson84$2,520,000$659,000
7$200,000 NLH Triton InvitationalAdrian Mateos137$27,400,000$6,370,000
8$50,000 Seven-Handed NLHChristopher Vogelsang118$5,900,000$1,037,858
9$100,000 NLH Foremost OccasionDanny Tang159$15,900,000$3,522,000
10$50,000 NLH Turbo Bounty QuattroMike Watson32$1,120,000$621,000
11$150,000 NLH tenth Anniversary ParticularAleksejs Ponakovs76$11,400,000$3,027,000
12$30,000 PLO/NLH CombinedTobias Schwecht53$1,590,000$465,000
13$100,000 PLO Foremost OccasionDaniel Dvoress76$7,600,000$2,018,000
14$50,000 PLO Thriller BountyMatthias Eibinger47$2,350,000$1,053,000
15$75,000 Six-Handed PLORichard Gryko59$4,425,000$1,243,000
16$25,000 PLO Turbo Bounty QuattroDaniel Dvoress46$850,000$367,500
Photos courtesy of Triton Poker
Will Shillibier
Managing Editor
He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.
