PokerNews Staff
In 2019, 27 amateurs and 27 of the world’s best pros competed in the biggest buy-in event in history. Now, the Triton Million – A Helping Hand for Charity poker tournament is being released as a 10-episode series on Triton Poker’s YouTube Channel.
A total of 54 players stumped up the seven-figure entry fee with £50,000 of each buy-in going to benefit 15 different charities. As a result, this saw £2.7 million going to a plethora of good causes as well as generating a staggering £54 million ($73,993,800) pound prize pool.
Here’s a look at five of either the biggest or most interesting hands from the first episode, which can be viewed in full below.
Hand #1: Dwan Loses a Chunk to Rajkumar
The event couldn’t have gone any worse for Tom Dwan, and here he is losing his first big pot of the day against Vivek Rajkumar.
With the blinds at 1,500/3,000/3,000, Dwan opened to 8,000 from the button holding
An all-action flop of
The
Hand #2: Aces Versus Kings
If you ever wondered what would happen if you saw aces versus kings in a £1m buy-in event – you’re about to find out.
With the blinds at 1,500/3,000/3,000, Aaron Zhang opened up to 8,000 from first position holding
The flop fell
With 397,500 in the pot and the
The
Hand #3: Rick Salomon Out!
With three final table appearances in seven-figure buy-in events on his resume, Rick Salomon planned an extended stay in London.
It didn’t work out that way.
Salomon got it in on a flop of
Hand #4: Another Loss For Dwan
With blinds at 1,500/3,000/3,000, Dwan limped into the action from the cutoff with 648,000 and
Dwan flopped two pair when
Tsang hit his flush on the turn when the
Hand #5: Dwan Out Versus Kuznetsov
In the build-up to the event, Timofey Kuznetsov waxed lyrical about the good old days when he used to rail the legend that is Dwan. The Russian ended the first episode with his scalp.
Dwan made it 9,000 to play from early position and
The flop was a fiery one with the
Dwan had nine outs to save his tournament life.
Neither the
Coverage of the £1,050 Triton Million Charity event continues at – million.triton-series.com.
*Images courtesy of Triton Poker/Joe Giron