Emotions connected with One Drop are behind us, so it's time for some Short Deck games. A large number of poker players will appear in Korean Jeju to compete at the high stakes tables.
Festival known as Triton Poker Series hast started yesterday, July 23rd, and last till August 1st in Jeju Landing Casino (South Korea). Players who go there can expect 5 events. Three of them will be Short Deck Holdem, and that guarantees plenty of action. Apart from that there will be two NL Holdem tournaments. The whole thing to be commented by Randy Lew and Lex Veldhuis.
Phil Ivey will join the action as well! Ten time WSOP bracelet winner won one of side events at Triton Poker, that was played in Montenegro. We will also see Tom Dwan, Daniel Cates, Paul Phua and Rui Cao. The game has even attracted the ambassadors of PartyPoker – Fedor Holz & Jason Koon.
– I have known Paul and Richard for a long time and I love what they do for poker. They have fun while organizing big events, great festivals and entertaining players from all over the world. I am excited thinking of the trip to Jeju. Bianca (Jason's fiancee) plans to go with me and play a few events to relax a bit, too – says Jason Koon.
The festival will begin with Short Deck game (HKD 100,000 buy-in). It's more or less $13,000. This is just for starters. Then we will enjoy tournaments with $64,000 and $127,000 buy-ins. Of course the best is last to come. Get ready for the Main Event (No Limit Holdem). Here the entry fee will be HK$2,000,000, that is $255,000! This is he biggest attraction organised by Triton Poker!
Here's the full schedule for Triton Series in Jeju:
Date Event
23rd July 100,000 HKD (13,000$) No-Limit Hold'em Short-Deck, Ante Only Day 1a
24th July 100,000 HKD (13,000$) No-Limit Hold'em Short-Deck, Ante Only Day 1b
25th July 100,000 HKD (13,000$) No-Limit Hold'em Short-Deck, Ante Only Day 2
500,000 HKD (64,000$) NLHE Short-Deck, Ante Only Day 1
26th July 500,000 HKD (64,000$) NLHE Short-Deck, Ante Only Day 2
500,000 HKD (64,000$) NLHE 6-Max Day 1
27th July 500,000 HKD (64,000$) NLHE 6-Max Day 2
28th July 1,000,000 HKD (127,000$) NLHE Short-Deck, Ante Only Day 1
29th July 1,000,000 HKD (127,000$) NLHE Short-Deck, Ante Only Day 2
30th July 2,000,000 HKD (255,000$) NLHE Main Event Day 1
31st July 2,000,000 HKD (255,000$) NLHE Main Event Day 2
1st August 2,000,000 HKD (255,000$) NLHE Main Event Day 3
Emotions connected with One Drop are behind us, so it's time for some Short Deck games. A large number of poker players will appear in Korean Jeju to compete at the high stakes tables.
