Hungarian Wins $1.4 Million In High Stakes Triton Poker Pot-Limit Omaha Tournament

Hungarian pot-limit Omaha specialist Gergo Nagy secured a career-best tournament score this week in Korea, taking down the 2025 Triton Poker $50,000 PLO event for his first trident trophy and the top prize of $1,360,000. The 42-year-old now has more than $2.9 million in recorded scores on the circuit, with the vast majority coming in the popular four-card poker variant.

Prior to this win, Nagy’s top score had been a $431,100 payday earned as the runner-up in a $50,000 buy-in PLO event at last year’s Super High Roller Bowl Cyprus festival. The winner of that event was Finnish PLO star Joni Jouhkimainen, who wound up finishing second in this tournament.

“It was really good for me that I can take this revenge,” said Nagy of his high-stakes heads-up rematch with Jouhkimainen in a winner’s interview with Triton staff.

Nagy was also awarded 1,020 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion of this event. This was his second final-table finish so far, having also placed seventh in the €10,300 buy-in event at the PLO Grand Slam Tirana in Albania. His 1,230 total points are enough to put him inside the top 60 in the 2025 POY standings presented by Global Poker.

The top 19 finishers earned a share of the $5.6 million prize pool in this event, with notables like Chris Brewer (18th), Chance Kornuth (17th), Lauaro Guerra (16th), Isaac Haxton (15th), Santhosh Suvarna (10th), Patrik Antonious (8th), and Eelis Parssinen (7th) running deep.

Six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus was the first to fall at the official final table, with his AQ104 unable to fade the Q654 of Xu Liang. Ausmus earned $318,000 as the sixth-place finisher. This was already his fifth final-table finish of 2025, with one title won earlier this series in a $25,000 no-limit hold’em event that sported a $1.9 million top prize. Ausmus now has $2.6 million in to-date POY earnings and 3,546 points, enough to keep him atop the POY leaderboard.

Tom Vogelsang got the last of his short stack in preflop with AQQ2 facing the AJJ9 of Jouhkimainen. The Finn made aces and nines to win the pot, sending Vogelsang to the rail with $408,000. The Dutch pro moved inside the top 30 in the POY race with three final tables and one title in 2025.

Despite scoring a few early knockouts at the final table, Xu was the next to be sent packing. His last ten big blinds went in with K1054 trailing the KKQ2 of Gruffudd Pugh Jones, who made queens full of deuces to lock up the pot. Xu was awarded $505,000 as the fourth-place finisher.

Jones slid down the chip counts during three-handed play. The UK resident ended up getting the last of his short stack in with pocket kings, but was beaten by a flush for Jouhkimainen. Jones was awarded a career-best payday of $611,000 for his third-place showing.

Heads-up play began with Jouhkimainen holding a 3:1 chip lead over Nagy. The two were soon in a dead heat, though, thanks to a double up with pocket aces for the Hungarian. After some back-and-forth, Nagy held a slight lead in time for the final hand of the tournament.

Nagy limped from the button with AAQ9 and Jouhkimainen raised from the big blind with KQ106. Nagy limp-raised and Jouhkimainen called to see a flop of K103. The chip got in right there with Jouhkimainen’s kings up in the lead for the time being. The 9 on the turn gave both players flush draws, with Nagy’s being best. He also had outs to trips, a straight, and higher two pair. The last option is what would up coming in thanks to the 3, which gave Nagy aces and threes for the win. Jouhkimainen earned $930,000 as the runner-up, a new high score for the bracelet winner from Helsinki.

Final Table Resuts

Photo credits: Triton Poker.

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