Artisom Lasouski Wins Triton Montenegro Occasion 5 ($669,000)

Artisom Lasouski most likely will not be a reputation you’re accustomed to but it surely could possibly be a reputation that poker followers will hear a lot extra about sooner or later. The younger Belarusian acquired his Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection debut off to the perfect of begins, taking down Occasion #5 of the Montenegro collection, the $40,000 Thriller Bounty No-Restrict Maintain’em 7-Handed match.

Lasouski reeled in a career-best $669,000 for this spectacular debut victory, a sum that’s set to swell as a result of he additionally collected 12 bounty tokens en path to changing into a Triton Poker champion. The thriller bounties are being drawn on Could 17, so there may be each likelihood Lasouski’s first dwell poker victory could possibly be price in extra of seven figures.

Little is understood about Lasouski. His first recorded dwell money got here in October 2023, when he completed within the cash in a $1,100 buy-in and a $5,150 buy-in European Poker Tour (EPT) Cyprus facet occasion. In Could 2024, Lasouski completed eighth within the EAPT Grand Remaining in Cyprus for $63,000, and min-cashed within the $5,300 Mediterranean Poker Celebration Predominant Occasion.

Now, the younger grinder appears to be like set to turn into a millionaire.

Occasion #5 – $40,000 Thriller Bounty NLH 7-Handed Remaining Desk Chip Counts

The ultimate desk began with eight gamers hoping to win the most important slice of the $6,040,000 (together with thriller bounties) prize pool, created by a area of 151 entries.

Stephen Chidwick was the second-shortest stack at the beginning of the finale, and the primary participant heading for the exits. Chidwick got here unstuck when his ace-jack did not get there towards Chris Moneymaker‘s pocket jacks. Chidwick rushed to the registration desk and acquired into the $50,000 NLH 7-Handed Bounty Quattro occasion however busted earlier than day’s finish.

Danny Tang then misplaced a coinflip with pocket eights towards the ace-ten of spades within the hand of Daniel Rezaei, leaving solely six gamers within the hunt for the title.

Six-handed play spanned throughout greater than a few hours earlier than Rezaei opened with jack-ten and referred to as a shove from Lasouski, which had been made with ace-deuce of hearts. An ace on the flop ended Rezaei’s participation on this occasion, though the $156,000 plus bounties Rezaei scooped will assist numb the ache of defeat.

The growing blinds started swallowing up the shorter stacks’ chips, and so they have been pressured to make strikes. Germany’s Samuel Ju misplaced all however three massive blinds when his ace-eight of golf equipment misplaced to Nikita Kuznetsov‘s pocket jacks, but he was not the following participant out of the door.

That doubtful honor went to Dylan Linde, who discovered himself all in with king-jack and needing some assist from the board to finest the ace-deuce of diamonds of Lasouski. No assist arrived, and Linde fell in fifth.

Ju then tripled up after calling all in from the small blind after Lasouski had ripped it in from the button. Kuznetsov referred to as from the button, making a chunky pot and a possible double elimination. A jack on the flop saved Ju’s bacon, that means his ace-jack had overwhelmed Lasouski’s dominating ace-queen and Kuznetsov’s dominated ace-five. Whereas Ju climbed up the chip counts, Kuznetsov crashed out in fourth place.

The 2003 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Predominant Occasion champion Moneymaker achieved an unbelievable comeback within the opening occasion, turning a solitary massive blind into a formidable victory. Nonetheless, Woman Luck was not on his facet throughout his newest escape try, his shove with jack-trey getting snapped off by the resurgent Ju and his king-ten. Moneymaker missed the board and headed into the night time with a third-place end and $311,000 to indicate for his efforts.

Moneymaker’s demise left Ju heads-up towards Lasouski, with Ju trailing by greater than two to 1. Ju managed to show the chip counts on their heads when his center pair held towards Lasouski’s nut flush draw earlier than the chip lead modified palms a number of occasions.

The ultimate hand noticed the participant get to the river on a six-three-jack-nine-nine board, with Lasouski betting sufficient to set Ju in for all his chips. Ju ultimately referred to as with eight-six solely to find Lasouski’s pocket queens had him crushed the complete time. Ju bowed out in second, leaving Lasouski to take down the primary Triton Poker occasion he had ever performed, a dream begin to Tremendous Excessive Rollers for the Belarusian.

Occasion #5 – $40,000 Thriller Bounty NLH 7-Handed Remaining Desk Outcomes

Mateos Leads the $50K NLH 7-Handed Bounty Quattro

The Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection Montenegro is exhibiting no indicators of slowing down, with the motion persevering with to come back thick and quick. Could 17 will see the conclusion of Occasion #6 – $50,000 NLH 7-Handed Bounty Quattro, the place solely 28 of the 126 starters stay.

Famous person Spaniard Adrian Mateos (2,125,000) is the person to catch and the one Day 2 participant with at the least two million chips of their stack, though Paulius Vaitiekunas (1,990,000) will argue his stack is actually two million.

Mike Watson (1,735,000) is on the lookout for his second Triton Poker title in every week, whereas Ramin Hajiyev (1,515,000) is hopeful of repeating the heroics from his Triton Poker journey final Could that noticed him win the $210,000 buy-in Cyprus occasion for $4,122,554.

Others lurking within the wings embody Isaac Haxton (1,230,000), Jason Koon (600,000), Michael Soyza (505,000), Seth Davies (440,000), and brief stack Kosei Ichinose (170,000).

Occasion #6 – $50,000 NLH 7-Handed Bounty Quattro Prime 10 Chip Counts

Play resumes at 1:00 p.m. CEST and continues till a champion is topped. Uncover who that champion is by returning to PokerNews over the weekend.

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