Pedro Padilha Wins Triton Jeju $50,000 Event For $1.4 Million

Pedro Padilha has been on quite a run in the past year and a half. The Brazilian has secured the four largest live poker tournament paydays of his career in that span, including a trio of seven-figure scores. The most recent of those saw the 39-year-old take down the $50,000 eight-max no-limit hold’em event at the 2026 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju for his first trident trophy.

“It’s the best feeling,” Padilha told Triton staff. “It’s an amazing event, an amazing tournament, and I’m so happy.”

Padilha defeated a field of 129 entries on his way to hoisting the hardware. The $1,400,860 top prize was the second-largest result on his résumé, trailing only the $3,160,000 he earned with a runner-up showing in the World Series of Poker Paradise Triton $100,000 buy-in last December. Last May, he lodged his first score of over a million when he triumphed in a €25,000 high roller at the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo stop, earning just shy of $1.3 million. He now has more than $8.8 million in recorded cashes to his name, which is good for third on the Brazilian all-time money list. He trails only Joao Simao ($20.9 million) and Yuri Dzivielevski ($16.2 million) on that list.

This victory made Padilha the fourth Brazilian player in Triton history to secure a title on the nosebleed-stakes tour. He joins Simao, Alisson Piekazewicz, and Pedro Garagnani.

This win also came with 1,122 Card Player Player of the Year points for Padilha. His seven final tables in 2025 resulted in a top-50 showing in the final POY standings last year. Now, he is sitting within striking distance of the top 300 in the 2026 POY race presented by CoinPoker, with three final-table finishes and this one title run.

A Stacked Field And Final Table

Only the top 20 finishers earned a share of the $6,449,998 prize pool in this event. The bubble burst with the elimination of Ren Lin in 21st place. He was soon joined on the rail by the likes of Kayhan Mokri (20th), Justin Saliba (17th), Piekazewicz (16th), Ding Biao (13th), and Alejandro Lococo (10th).

By the time the final table was set, it was recent $25,000 eight-max event winner Aliaksei Boika who sat atop the leaderboard. He was trailed closely by two-time bracelet winner Nick Petrangelo, with Padilha in third chip position.

🔱 Final Table time, and it’s a heavyweight lineup. The $50K NLH 8-Handed is down to its last nine.

$1,548,000 and the Triton trophy for one, and every seat at this table believes it’s theirs.

Watch the champion get crowned live on all Triton Poker Series channels. pic.twitter.com/8qnDDBlqMB

— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) September 11, 2026

Triton champion and three-time bracelet winner Eelis Parssinen bowed out in eighth place ($200,000), running A-7 into the pocket queens of Yang Wang. This was the 12th final-table finish of 2026 for the Finnish crusher, who now sits in fourth place in the POY standings.

Phil Ivey was the next to fall. The five-time Triton champion and 11-time bracelet winner took a stand with pocket nines, only to finish second-best to the pocket jacks of Petrangelo. The Poker Hall of Famer ticked over $55.9 million in career earnings with the $271,000 he earned as the seventh-place finisher.

Kiat Lee, just a single day removed from a win in the $40,000 mystery bounty event for his fourth trident trophy, placed sixth in this event. Lee secured $361,000 after losing a flip with K-8 against the pocket sixes of Boika.

The Final Five

Padilha landed the next knockout blow, with his A♦8♠ besting the A♣6♣ of Wang (5th – $461,000). Aren Bezhanyan backed up his fourth-place finish in a $25,000 event earlier this series with a run to the same spot in this tournament. The Armenian got the last of his short stack in with J♣10♣ facing K♥4♠ for Boika, who flopped a pair of kings and held from there. Bezhanyan earned $574,000 this time around, bringing his total haul for the series to $991,000.

Boika ultimately fell in third place, with his A♦9♠ unable to come from behind against the A♣K♠ of a surging Padilha. Boika added $697,000 with this podium showing, bringing the Belarusian’s career haul to nearly $10.9 million.

Padilha held roughly a 2:1 chip lead over Petrangelo going into heads-up play. The two contenders soon hashed out a deal that locked up $1,350,860 for Padilha and $1,201,140 for Petrangelo, leaving the title and $50,000 up for grabs.

The final hand soon arrived, with Padilha’s Q♣8♠ tailing K♠4♠ for Petrangelo. The board came down A♦9♥4♥8♣3♥ and Padilha made a winning pair of eights to wrap up the tournament. Petrangelo now has nearly $44.7 million in recorded scores to his name after this latest deep run.

💥 BOOM! Pedro Padilha is a Triton champion! Brazil, this one’s for you. pic.twitter.com/9Y20qHLJ8l

— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) September 11, 2026

Final Table Results

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