Peanut butter and jelly. Cheese and crackers. Biscuits and gravy. Bacon and eggs. Might as properly put Jason Koon profitable high-roller occasions on that checklist.
Koon once more confirmed why he is likely one of the greatest high-stakes event poker gamers within the Universe on the World Collection of Poker yesterday by profitable the $50,000 Excessive Curler occasion which got here with the biggest prize of the summer time to date — $1,968,927.
The 8-handed occasion attracted 171 entries who constructed a prize pool of $8.1 million. Koon has taken his foot off the pedal lately since he began a household, however you wouldn’t understand it from his outcomes. In 2025, he’s cashed a dozen occasions and is coming off a $3.4 million rating for profitable the $157,500 Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler occasion in Montenegro just a few weeks in the past.
If that wasn’t sufficient, he gained the $20,000 + 1,200 + 10,000 No Restrict Maintain’em Quattro Bounty Turbo occasion, good for an additional $305,176, in the identical sequence just a few days later.
“I simply play after I need to now. I’m very dedicated to that,” stated Koon after he gained his second WSOP bracelet. “My household’s with me if I journey. So I’m going to journey much less, and after I play, I’m going to be on my A-game, and skip some tournaments. And every time I present up, I’m able to do the factor.”
Koon’s not solely operating deep within the highest buy-in tournaments on the earth, however he’s beating the highest gamers on the earth whereas doing it.
Runner-up of the nosebleed in Montenegro Ben Tollerene additionally fell quick right here, ending third for $914,634. Tollerene, who pushed his lifetime earnings over $30 million with the money, lately gained a $104,000 buy-in occasion on the Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection in Montenegro for $2,390,000.
Andrew Lichtenberger simply missed profitable his second WSOP bracelet, however stalled in second-place, which was good for $1,312,610.
Brock Wilson made his twenty second ultimate desk at WSOP occasions — Circuits occasions included — but he’s nonetheless looking for his first WSOP bracelet. He rounded out the highest 4 ($650,074).
Successful in Las Vegas on the WSOP made it a bit of extra particular for Koon.
“I actually love (the WSOP)” he Koon. “You understand, it’s nostalgia for me. Every time I used to be in school, clearly, I used to be simply watching WSOP on a regular basis on ESPN, and first time I used to be right here, I keep in mind the thrill and the way excited I used to be, and I nonetheless, I come again, and — I could not really feel that very same buzz anymore — however I see younger individuals right here which can be excited to play, that makes me actually comfortable.”
The win moved Koon to fourth on the Hendon Mob’s all-time cash checklist, slipping previous Mikita Bodyakovsky with $64,113,455.
