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I am back from Jeju, but still have a backlog of posts to catch up on. My plan is to get all the posts finished ASAP, and once I catch up to the backlog, I will resume the normal MWF, Saturday Week in Review, Sunday Special schedule.
When I have spectated Triton in the POTD era, one tournament I always focus on is the $150k NLHE. The Main Event usually has the biggest prize pool, and The Invitational usually has the biggest buyin, but the $150k usually has the toughest field. Normally when I write about Triton hands on POTD, I am not writing about hands where a Chinese billionaire misses a tricky solver check-raise, I am writing about poker pros battling vs. each other for high stakes, and the $150k is the most likely tournament to provide me with a hand I am interested in writing about.
As a player, the $150k has the smallest field, which means outside of some Short Deck or PLO tournaments, it’s also the tournament where I am most likely to appear on stream. While playing on stream can be tedious, it’s still fun, especially because you usually get to play on a stream table the hard way, by making the final two tables of a tournament. The way this trip has been going, the best way for me to get on the stream table was the fast track of playing a high-buyin small-field tournament, where I could hopefully show off the poker skill that I possess but has not been reflected in my results this trip. So I made it to the secondary feature table, faced a river shove, and had a chance to make a big play. I ended up losing the pot, but figured that at least my consolation prize would be the pain of seeing I was bluffed or– more likely just because of how pot odds work– the validation that I made a great fold. Unfortunately, today’s hand took place on the secondary feature table as it took place while Nick Schulman was three-handed vs. Bernhard Binder and Gytis Lazaunakis in the Main Event. So in addition to folding the river in a big pot, I did not even get to see the good or bad news about my play. This trip continues to find novel ways to frustrate me while I am losing money. Onto the hand.
Since I played this hand recently vs. a real opponent, I will not be sharing my hole cards before the paywall. If you’d like see my hole cards, you can pay me $1 at the link in the introduction.
$150K NLH 10th Anniversary Special – Event #15| Triton SHRS Jeju II 2026
(1k/2.5k/2.5k) (SB/BB/BBA) 200k Starting Stack
Miroslav Atanasov (230k/102bbs) makes it 5.5k UTG/7, I (142k/57bbs) call next to act in the LJ with ??, Punnat Punsri (174k/70bbs) make it 24k in the BB, Miroslav folds, I call.
Flop (57k) 9♦️4♠️2♣️: Punnat bets 19k, I call.
Turn (95k) 3♥️: Punnat bets 32k, I call.
River 7c (159k) 7♣️: Punnat shoves for my final 68k, I fold.
