Gebruiker:CarpeDiem91/Triton Poker Series
De Triton Poker Series is een serie van pokertoernooien die ongeveer drie keer per jaar wordt gehouden op verschillende locaties in de wereld. De buy-in van elk toernooi bedraagt tenminste 10.000 US dollar. Daarmee behoren de toernooien van de Triton Poker Series tot de duurste en meest prestigieuze pokertoernooien van de wereld.
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De Triton Poker Series is opgericht door de Maleisische zakenlieden Paul Phua en Richard Yong.
De meeste Triton toernooien worden gespeeld in de No Limit Texas Hold'em variant, maar er zijn ook veel toernooien die Short Deck (Six Plus Hold'em) worden gespeeld. Incidenteel wordt ook Pot Limit Omaha gespeeld.
At the end of January 2017 three events in Manila, Macau and Montenegro were announced for the year. In May 2018 four more tournaments were held in Montenegro. There, further events in the South Korean Jeju Province were announced for the end of July 2018. The first events of 2019 were also played in Jeju-do in March. At the second event in 2019 the variant Pot-Limit Omaha was played for the first time at Triton Poker Series. At the beginning of August 2019 the Triton Million for Charity took place in London which was the most expensive poker tournament to date with a buy-in of one million Pound sterling. The tournament series planned for February 2020 in Jeju-do was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The planned holding in Montenegro in May 2020 was also canceled at the end of March 2020. The return of the tournament series in Bali announced for February 2022 also had to be postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic as well as four tournaments in Sochi due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ultimately the first event after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic took place in April 2022 in Kyrenia in Northern Cyprus. In September 2022 the Coin Rivet Invitational was held in Kyrenia as the second invitational tournament by the series. A few days after the event Ivan Leow, a co-founder and regular of the Triton Poker Series, died during the ongoing tournament series whereupon the current tournament was aborted and the remaining two events were cancelled. The tournaments are broadcast via YouTube and the live streaming platform Twitch and feature commentators like Lex Veldhuis and Randy Lew.