After Hecklen bowed out, only Koon, Sam Greenwood, and Steve O’Dwyer remained in the battle. It didn’t take long for O’Dwyer to run into trouble. He fell after Koon picked up a straight, taking home $1.17 million in the process.<\/p>\n
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This left the final heads-up between Koon and Greenwood, but they cut a deal that left $84K on the table. Even that ended up in Koon’s pocket after an all-in final hand paired his Q-10 against Greenwood’s failed A-K. Greenwood picked up $1.92 million as runner-up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Koon is now almost ready to take over the top spot in the all-time poker money list. That spot still belongs to Stephen Chidwick, but maybe not for much longer. Koon is just $900K down, and 2023 isn’t even half over yet.<\/p>\n
Grinding Halt for Santos at Invitational<\/h2>\n Ernildo Santos started well in the Invitational, making it past the first day. The only Brazilian in the event, the Pixbet CEO continued his run alongside 53 other players.<\/p>\n
As the field continued to shrink, Santos maintained his momentum. However, with just 28 players left, things took a turn for the worse.<\/strong><\/p>\nProtecting his stack of 16 big blinds, Santos opened strong while holding A-K. Russian pro Arthur Martirosian, with 100 big blinds, and Turkey’s Orpen Kisacikoglu, protecting just eight big blinds, stayed in the hand.<\/p>\n
The 2-3-8 didn’t seem to be trouble for Santos, and after Kisacikoglu checked, he went all-in. Martirosian exited, but Kisacikoglu, a WSOP bracelet winner with more than $14.5 million in live winnings, decided to ride it out.<\/p>\n
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Given the fact that he was holding 4-3 in the big blind, it was a risk worth taking. The turn revealed a 4 and the river brought an 8, and Santos missed finding a connector. With one hand, he went from a middle stack to a short stack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
That set up his exit a few hands later. Down to eight big blinds, he went up against Kisacikoglu once more, only to miss once again with a desperate play with J-9. Santos hit the rail with no cash while his conqueror bowed out in 10th place with $369,500. Azerbaijan’s Ramin Hajiyev ultimately won the event, taking home $4.12 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jason Koon may be the unofficial king of the Triton Poker Series. The American poker pro scored another Triton victory this week, bringing to seven the number of titles the GGPoker ambassador has collected as he bounces from event to event. Koon has three first-place finishes in Triton tournaments in just the past two months, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":274665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,14],"tags":[82454,81919,81907],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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