Triton Poker Super High Roller Series

Past Triton Stops

Triton has run stops across Asia, Europe, and beyond since 2015. The series paused during COVID-19 (2020-2021) and relaunched with record prize pools in 2022.

Format and Structure of Triton Events

Triton runs 3-6 events per stop, structured across short-deck (6+ Hold'em), NLHE, PLO, and mixed game formats. Buy-in tiers range from $25K short-deck events to $250K-$1M+ Super High Roller Bowls. Fields are small — typically 50-200 players — but prize pools are massive. A $100K event with 150 players creates a $15M prize pool, a scale that dwarfs almost every other poker series outside the WSOP Main Event.

Events use turbo structures with shorter blind levels than WPT or EPT, accommodating the compressed multi-day schedules required when flying in wealthy international players. Feature tables use GGPoker's streaming infrastructure, enabling high-definition hole card reveals within 30 minutes of play. Production quality rivals major sports broadcasts.

Prize pools at Triton are aggressively top-heavy. First place typically receives 30-40% of the total prize pool — in a $10M pool event, the winner can expect $3M-$4M minimum. This structure rewards aggressive, high-variance play and concentrates wealth among the elite few who consistently final-table these events.

Who Can Play at Triton?

Triton is by invitation or direct purchase. Unlike WSOP events open to anyone with the buy-in, Triton targets three distinct groups: top-50 high rollers by ranking, wealthy recreational "whales" who fund the prize pools, and a small number of online pros who receive invitations through GGPoker partnerships.

Paul Phua's network in Asian high-stakes gambling circles provides the financial backers who create overlay opportunities for pro players. The field composition at a typical Triton event runs roughly 40% high-stakes recreational players (businessmen, VIPs, crypto entrepreneurs), 40% world-ranked pros (Koon, Dwan, Chidwick, Badziakouski), and 20% sponsored or invited players on packages.

This deliberately amateur-friendly composition is Triton's core competitive advantage — it creates prize pools far larger than pure-pro series, and the high recreational player percentage generates better EV for professionals willing to compete at these buy-in levels.

Triton vs Other High Roller Series

How Triton stacks up against the other premier high roller circuits on the global calendar.

Notable Triton Moments and Records

Bryn Kenney won over $20M in a single 12-month Triton stretch (2018-2019), boosting him to the #1 position in all-time live tournament earnings at the time. That run included his $20.5M runner-up finish in the 2019 London Million for Charity — the largest single second-place prize in poker history — behind amateur Aaron Zang's $23.1M first-place result.

Tom Dwan's comeback to live poker after years away from public events largely happened at Triton, where his short-deck cash game exploits and deep tournament runs attracted mainstream media coverage. Jason Koon holds the record for most Triton results by volume — no player has final-tabled more Triton events across more stops.

The Triton series is the primary driver of high-roller tournament revenue growth globally. Its prize pool-to-buy-in ratios — elevated by wealthy amateur entries subsidizing the pool — routinely beat WSOP and EPT events for pro expected value. It has pushed other series to raise their own buy-in ceilings and invest more heavily in production quality.

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