Triton Poker Vietnam 2023: GG Super Millions breaks field record on opening day of Super High Roller Series

Kieran Francis

Triton Poker Vietnam 2023: GG Super Millions breaks field record on opening day of Super High Roller Series image

Triton Poker's Super High Roller Series in Vietnam is breaking records with a mammoth number of entries to a Triton Day 1 event at the Hoiana Resort and Golf in Hoi An.

In the 25,000 buy-in GG Super Millions event, 166 entries in the first event at the Vietnam smashed the previous record of 132 entrants in the opening tournament in Triton's Cyprus stop last year.

The record number of entries, including 44 newcomers to Triton Poker events, in the GG Super Millions translates to a huge prize pool of 4.15 million, with the champion to get 960,000.

MORE: Triton Poker Vietnam 2023: 25,000 GG Super Millions Day 1 leaderboard, payouts, prizemoney

Triton Poker, one of the premier poker brands worldwide, is no stranger to breaking records.

Andy Wong, CEO of Triton Poker, was delighted with the huge turnout to the opening event.

"Event #1 in our series in Vietnam has drawn a record-breaking number of participants, demonstrating the continued growth and popularity of the game," Wong told The Sporting News.

"The atmosphere is electric and the competition is fierce, with some of the world’s top players battling for the top spot."

U.S. pro Jonathan Jaffe led the remaining 32 entrants at the end of the GG Super Millions Day 1 with 23 places getting paid.

Finnish veteran Patrik Antonius is in second place, while German Daniel Smiljkovic came back from the dead to be a contender.

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Smiljkovic saw his stack dwindle to 8,500 chips (around 5BB) early in the tournament after his QQ overpair was destroyed by Sam Greenwood's set of threes, but the German doubled up via a three-outer on the river against Sorel Mizzi and slowly worked his way up the leaderboard.

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Several stars have already busted before the money, including Greenwood, Jason Koon, Michael Addamo, Fedor Holz, Isaac Haxton and Justin Bonomo.

Click here to see payouts for GG Super Millions

25,000 GG Super Millions leaderboard after Day 1 

Field remaining: 32/166

Places paid: 23

Average stack: 1,300,000 (43BBs)

Blind level at end of day: 15k/30k/30k

Place Name/Country Chips BBs
1. Jonathan Jaffe (USA) 3,365,000 112
2. Patrik Antonius (Finland) 3,130,000 104
3. Daniel Smiljkovic (Germany) 3,035,000 101
4. Pablo Silva (Brazil) 2,435,000 81
5. Alex Kulev (Bulgaria) 2,400,000 80
6. Mario Mosbock (Austria) 1,875,000 63
7. Chris Brewer (USA) 1,720,000 57
8. Kim Hyun SUP (South Korea) 1,680,000 56
9. Alan Zhang (Australia) 1,575,000 53
10. Yang Liu (China) 1,470,000 49

Other notable stacks

Place Name/Country Chips BBs
12. Nick Petrangelo (USA) 1,340,000 45
15. Michael Watson (Canada) 1,135,000 38
16. Erik Seidel (USA) 1,060,000 35
18. Michael Soyza (Malaysia) 980,000 33
20. Stephen Chidwick (UK) 970,000 32
26. Dan Smith (USA) 680,000 23

Notable eliminated players

Finish position Name/Country Prizemoney
35th Sam Greenwood (Canada) Nil
36th Daniel Dvoress (Canada) Nil
38th Michael Rocco (USA) Nil
40th Jason Koon (USA) Nil
41st Michael Addamo (Australia) Nil
53rd Steve O'Dwyer (Ireland) Nil
54th Wiktor Malinowski (Poland) Nil
60th Fedor Holz (Germany) Nil
61st Tim Adams (Canada Nil
62nd Isaac Haxton (USA) Nil
66th Mikita Badziakouski (Belarus) Nil
68th Sam Grafton (UK) Nil
74th Adrian Mateos (Spain) Nil
75th Linus Loeliger (Switzerland) Nil
81st David Peters (USA) Nil
90th Justin Bonomo (USA) Nil
94th John Juanda (USA) Nil
96th Nacho Barbero (Argentina) Nil

Payouts for GG Super Millions Live 

Total prizepool: 4,150,000

Position Prizemoney
Champion 965,000
2nd 653,600
3rd 435,500
4th 357,000
5th 286,300
6th 222,000
7th 164,000
8th 121,000
9th 96,300
10th-11th 81,000
12th-13th 70,500
14th-15th 64,300
16th-17th 58,100
18th-20th 52,300
21st-23rd 48,200

Kieran Francis

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Kieran Francis is a senior editor at The Sporting News based in Melbourne, Australia. He started at Sportal.com.au before being a part of the transition to Sporting News in 2015. Just prior to the 2018 World Cup, he was appointed chief editor of Goal.com in Australia. He has now returned to The Sporting News where his passions lay in football, AFL, poker and cricket - when he is not on holiday.