Daniel Dvoress claims fourth Triton Poker trophy

Canadian super high roller Daniel Dvoress won the first trophy at Triton Poker Montenegro, claiming the $25,000 Golden Decade Event win. The 146-entry event attracted a $3,650,000 prize pool, with Dvoress earning $849,000 after an intense heads-up battle with Dejan Kaladjurdjevic.

For Dvoress, this is his fourth career Triton Poker trophy. Given that he’s fifth on the all-time Triton Poker earnings list, with roughly $30.4 million earned on the tour, it’s a bit shocking that he’s “only” won four trophies.

Dvoress is often an underrated player in the Triton Poker series and poker in general, especially as the 12th-largest earner in terms of career live tournament earnings. At the moment, Dvoress is only behind the likes of Bryn Kenney, Stephen Chidwick, Jason Koon, Mikita Bodyakovsky, Justin Bonomo, Isaac Haxton, Dan Smith, Daniel Negreanu, Alex Foxen, Adrien Mateos, and Phil Ivey.

“I’m very proud,” Dvoress told Triton reporters. “It’s great, obviously. It is kind of funny that it took me forever to get my first Triton trophy to begin with, and then they came in short deck, then PLO, and then short deck. I’ve generally been a no-limit specialist. I’ve not been playing the other two games for very long. So it feels nice to finally get this one.”

$25,000 Triton Poker Golden Decade Event final table results

After Wiktor “Limitless” Malinowski was eliminated by Ben Tollerene’s pocket aces, the final table was set. The native Montenegrin, Dejan Kaladjurdjevic, was the chip leader with 57 big blinds, with Dvoress just behind with 48 big blinds. None of the other seven competitors came into the final table with more than 25 big blinds.

Following the typical final table intros, it would only take four hours to reduce the field of nine to just one champion.

Ben Tollerene, coming off the Triton Poker Jeju Main Event win, was the first to go after attempting to make a move on Kaladjurdjevic. With against Kaladjurdjevic’s , he check-called a flop raise on and also called a turn bet. Kaladjurdjevic then checked the river, and Tollerene jammed for a little less than half pot. Kaladjurdjevic tanked and used his time bank chips before making the call to leave Tollerene with 20% of a big blind. Tollrene went out a few hands later in ninth place for $85,000.

Danilo Velasevic was the next to go in eighth place after he lost a devastating flip, also at the hands of Kaladjurdjevic. His couldn’t find help against Kaladjurdjevic’s 8d] in a 40 big blind pot, and the Montenegrin had nearly half the chips with seven left. Velasevic had to settle for $106,000.

Mikhail Soltanov was out in seventh place for $145,000 after flatting in the big blind with off a short stack and flopping bottom pair on . Unfortunately for the Russian, this time Dvoress had for top set.

Niederreiter was cockroaching and finally bowed out in sixth place, though Biao Ding would need nearly an hour until he became the fifth-place tragedy.

Ding flopped top pair with on Dvoress’ on and the money eventually got in. Ding, who has been strong in recent Triton Poker events, took home another $252,000.

After that, it only needed another hour to finish. Samuel Muller was eliminated with top-top running into the flopped two pair of Kaladjurdjevic. Phua would also bout out to Kaladjurdjevic, getting four-outed on the river to deny the Triton Poker co-founder any additional hardware.

In heads-up play, Dvoress ended up making a wheel with a lowly against Kaladjurdjevic’s trip nines on [Aj] to win the title and put a quick wrap on proceedings.