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Zhao Wenjie’s intuition didn’t fail him, working at the right moment

Zhao Wenjie reached the final table of the Triton One Main Event with the third stack of 101 bb. When 9 players remained in the tournament, this incredible hand was played (watch on YouTube from 4:53:47).

There are three biggest stacks in the hand. Each has over 100 big blinds. Zhao Wenjie opened from early position with pocket aces.

Vallinas flat-called behind him with pocket jacks.

Shota Nakanishi also came along from the CO with AJo.

Board: 2 7 8

Wenjie checks. Vallinas bets 1.6 bb into a pot of 8.5 bb and gets two calls.

Turn 5 , pot 13.5 bb

Wenjie checks again. Vallinas bets 3.1 bb. Nakanishi raises to 14.1 bb.

And here’s what happened next. Wenjie insta-folded! The operator didn’t even manage to catch the moment when Wenjie threw his cards away. Vallinas called.

River J .

Vallinas and Nakanishi check. But the one happiest about the outcome of this hand was, of course, Zhao Wenjie himself, who didn’t hide his emotions.

In the end, all three players from this hand made it to 3-max. Nakanishi finished in 3rd place. Vallinas and Wenjie chopped heads-up.

Payouts at the final table of the $8K Triton One Main Event (1,230 entries total):

Position	Name	Country	Prize
1	Zhao Wenjie		$1,160,000*
2	Ander Vallinas		$1,337,000*
3	Shota Nakanishi		$641,000
4	Liu Xiaohu		$475,000
5	Kai Yang		$371,000
6	Issey Maeda		$279,000
7	Zhou Quan		$213,000
8	Takumi Eguchi		$151,000
9	Jimmy Guerrero		$116,990

Austin Ang caught some luck from Paul Phua and won the $15K Triton One High Roller

Austin Ang reached the final table of this tournament with the shortest stack of 19 bb. In a post-win interview, Ang said that before the start of play he approached Paul Phua and asked “to steal a luck” by shaking his hand. And it worked out.

At 3-max, Ang faced legendary Bryn Kenney and Isaac Haxton. Each had 26–29 bb. The opponents agreed to a deal, leaving $90K and the trophy to play for.

Ang knocked out Kenney in 3rd place with ATs > KJo, pot 33 bb.

At one point, Ang’s stack dropped to 8 bb. It seemed like Haxton had the win locked up. But apparently, the boost of luck worked. Ang doubled up twice: Q7s > J2o and K7s > A4o (seven on the river), pot 40 bb. In the final hand, Haxton got it in with T7s against ATs for a pot of 16.5 bb. On the flop, Haxton picked up a flush draw; on the turn, Ang picked up a second flush draw; the river was a blank, and the ace-high held up.

Payouts at the final table of the $15K Triton One High Roller (490 entries total)

Position	Name	Country	Prize
1	Ang Yang Siang		$932,000
2	Isaac Haxton		$940,000
3	Bryn Kenney		$891,000
4	Manuel Fritz		$466,000
5	Paulius Vaitiekūnas		$366,000
6	Christopher Nguyen		$287,100
7	Aren Bezhanyan		$214,000
8	Zhang Yang		$149,090
9	Sergio Aido		$117,000

Right now on air: $100K Short Deck Ante-Only Final Day

The stream is live on Twitch, YouTube, and Kick.

There are 10 players left, but only 8 will make the money. Chip counts:

Position	Name	Country	Stack
1st	Winfred Yu		96 ante
2nd	Jason Koon		95 ante
3rd	Kiat Lee		69 ante
4th	Michael Watson		56 ante
5th	Dan Dvoress		46 ante
6th	Chan Wai Leong		39 ante
7th	Ferdinand Putra		36 ante
8th	Ruslan Khadartsev		27 ante
9th	Michael Zhang		27 ante
10th	Seth Davies		26 ante