Austin Yang Wins High Roller To Close Out Triton One Jeju

The closing event of the 2026 Triton One Jeju series was a $15,000 no-limit hold’em high roller that drew 490 entries to create a $6.9 million prize pool. The conclusion of the event pitted Triton newcomer Siang Ang ‘Austin’ Yang against two of the top-earning poker players in tournament history: Bryn Kenney ($82,040,039) and Isaac Haxton ($64,975,283). Yang ultimately came out on top, besting the all-time money leader (Kenney) and the sixth-ranked player on that prestigious leaderboard (Haxton) to secure the title and a career-best score of $932,000.

Yang busted both of those high-stakes superstars down the stretch to close out the victory after the trio had struck a deal to redistribute the prize money down the stretch. Haxton, who held the chip lead at that time, ultimately walked away with the largest payout of $940,000.

This was the fourth cash in six events for Yang, who had never played at a Triton stop before making the trek to South Korea for this festival. The 29-year-old Malaysian now has nearly $1.1 million in recorded scores after his breakout performance in Jeju.

“I think I just got lucky, to be honest,” Yang told Triton staff after the win. “But one fun fact. Before I got to the final, I was so short-stacked, but I saw Paul Phua sitting right there and I said, ‘Hey, can I steal your luck? Can I shake your hand?’ And I ran super-hot.”

This victory came with 2,160 Card Player Player of the Year points. While this was his first qualifying cash of the year, it alone was enough to catapult Yang into fifth place in the 2026 POY standings presented by CoinPoker.

The Deal

The top 80 finishers made the money in this event, with notables like Daniel Dvoress (16th), Weiran Pu (14th), Klemens Roiter (12th), Eelis Parssinen (10th), Sergio Aido (9th), Christopher Nguyen (6th), and Manuel Fritz (4th) all running deep.

Yang was the shortest stack when the final nine converged onto a single table, but was able to survive to the final three. He won a crucial double-up with pocket queens during four-handed play that helped even the stacks considerably before the deal amongst the final three was agreed upon.

Haxton, who was out in front, secured the aforementioned payout of $940,000. Kenney, with the next-largest stack, locked up $891,000. Yang guaranteed himself $842,000 as the short stack, with all three still vying for the title and the $90,000 in remaining prize money that was up for grabs via the deal.

Squaring Off Against Superstars

Kenney’s final hand saw him limp-jam from the button with K♠J♦ after Yang had raised from the big blind with A♠10♠. Yang made the call and flopped a pair of aces. He held from there to send Kenney to the rail in third place. Kenney, the only player with more than $80 million in career cashes, has accumulated $50.8 million in earnings from Triton events alone. To give his level of success some perspective, this massive payday was only the 18th-largest score of his career. He has 13 cashes for seven figures or more, including the record $20.6 million he earned via a heads-up deal in the 2019 Triton Million charity invitational.

Yang took nearly a 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play with Haxton, but lost a big chunk when he took a tricky line with pocket aces and Haxton rivered trip tens. Yang soon found a couple of double-ups, though. After the second all-in win, he held roughly a 4:1 chip advantage.

The final showdown pitted A♣10♣ against Haxton’s dominated 10♦7♦. Yang’s hand held through a J♣6♦5♦5♣8♠ runout to bring the event to a close. Haxton and Kenney both surged up the POY standings thanks to their performances in this event, with the former climbing to 15th place while the latter settled at 23rd.

Final Table Payouts

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