Triton Poker Vietnam 2023: 25,000 Short Deck Ante-Only Day 1 leaderboard, payouts, prizemoney

Stephen Noh

Triton Poker Vietnam 2023: 25,000 Short Deck Ante-Only Day 1 leaderboard, payouts, prizemoney image

The Triton Super High Roller series in Vietnam kicked off the short deck portion of the stop with the 25,000 Ante-Only Event on Friday. The event generated 57 entrants who competed for the 427,000 first prize.

After the first day of play, Kiat Lee finds himself in the best position to win with 7,905,000 in chips. Lee won a massive pot in the middle of the day by flopping a set of aces against Isaac Haxton and busting fan favorite Karl Chappe-Gatien on the bubble. Lee made two pair with his seven-eight offsuit, and Chappe-Gatien's ace-king failed to improve.

Justin Bonomo was the first player in the money. Bonomo lost a massive hand on a cooler late in the day with pocket queens to Danny Tang's pocket kings. He was eventually eliminated when his ace-king offsuit could not improve against Stephen Chidwick's flopped trip jacks.

The remaining contestants will resume play on Saturday at 1 p.m. local time.

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25,000 Short Deck Ante-Only leaderboard after Day 1 

Field remaining: 7/57

Places paid: 8

Average stack: 2.41 million (61 antes)

Ante level at end of day: 40k/80k

Place Name/Country Chips Antes
1. Kiat Lee (Malaysia) 7,905,000 198
2. Danny Tang (Hong Kong) 3,825,000 96
3. Michael Watson (Canada) 1,805,000 45 
4. Stephen Chidwick (United Kingdom) 1,330,000 33
5. Isaac Haxton (USA) 1,015,000 25
6. Richard Yong (Malaysia) 685,000 17
7. Phil Chiu (Hong Kong) 540,000 14

Notable eliminations

Place Name/Country Prizemoney
8. Justin Bonomo (USA) 57,500
11. Sam Greenwood (Canada) 0
16. Paul Phua (Malaysia) 0


Payouts for 25,000 Short Deck Ante-Only Event 

Total prizepool: 1,425,000

Position Prizemoney
Champion 427,000
2nd 310,000
3rd 199,300
4th 151,000
5th 117,000
6th 91,200
7th 72,500
8th 57,000

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Stephen Noh started writing about the NBA as one of the first members of The Athletic in 2016. He covered the Chicago Bulls, both through big outlets and independent newsletters, for six years before joining The Sporting News in 2022. Stephen is also an avid poker player and wrote for PokerNews while covering the World Series of Poker from 2006-2008.