Another new record has been set at the 2025 Triton Poker Jeju festival in South Korea. Earlier this series the $25,000 eight-max drew the largest field of any tournament ever held on the high-stakes-centric tour at 391 entries. That achievement was soon followed by a new top turnout for a $100,000 buy-in Triton main event, with 285 entries made by the time registration came to a close.
The most recent breakthrough came in the $100,000 pot-limit Omaha event, which drew 91 entries to create a $9,100,000 prize pool. Spain’s Sergio Martinez Gonzalez came out on top in the end, earning $2,340,000 as the champion. This set a new poker record as the largest top prize ever awarded in a PLO tournament, topping the $2,303,017 secured by 2023 World Series of Poker $50,000 PLO champion Jesse Lonis.
This was the second seven-figure PLO tournament score of Martinez Gonzalez’s career. In 2023 he finished runner-up to Ka Kwan Lau in a massive $25,000 buy-in event at that year’s WSOP that drew 449 entries. That second-place showing came with a $1.4 million payout. Martinez Gonzalez now has nearly $3.8 million in career earnings to his name.
This win also came with 1,080 Card Player Player of the Year points, enough to move him inside the top 100 in the 2025 POY standings presented by Global Poker.
The top 15 finishers walked away with a chunk of the prize pool, with seven-figure scores for the final three contenders. Notables that ran deep in this event include triple crown winner Michael Watson (14th), ten-time Triton winner Jason Koon (14th), and the final two players from the recent $50,000 event at this festival, champion Gergo Nagy (12th) and runner-up Joni Joukimainen (11th).
The Spanish player was out in front when the last seven contenders posed for the final-table photo, with China’s Ding Biao sitting on the next-largest stack.
This series’ no-limit hold’em main event winner, Wenjie Huang, backed up his victory in that record affair with a seventh-place showing ($423,000). That brought his haul for the festival to more than $6 million. Mads Amot (6th – $536,000) soon joined him on the rail, with the Norwegian’s run ended by Dutch PLO star Tom Vogelsang.
Vogelsang got the last of his stack in preflop with A
A
44
facing the A
A43 of Martinez Gonzalez. A chop seemed highly likely, but the flop came down 652 to give Martinez Gonzalez a six-high straight. The J turn left Vogelsang drawing dead, making the K river a mere formality. Vogelsang was awarded $686,000 for his fifth-place finish. This was fourth final-table finish of the year, including a win in a €5,200 PLO event at the PLO Grand Slam Tirana in Albania. He now sits in 11th place on the POY leaderboard as a result.
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Ding eliminated Zhikang Dai in fourth place ($854,000) to continue his climb up the chip counts. Lin Wei then got the last of his stack in with AKQ10 facing the KJJ10 of Martinez Gonzalez. The latter hand held up and Lin headed to the payout desk to collect $1,055,000. This was his second PLO final table of the week, having also placed sixth in the $25,000 buy-in offering for $166,000.
The heads-up battle for the title was a back-and-forth affair. It began with Ding out in front. After plenty of twists and turns, Martinez went on a run late that left Ding on fumes. The final hand saw Ding get all-in with AKKJ facing the K554 of Martinez Gonzalez. The 7527Q runout saw Ding eliminated in second place. The two-time Triton champion cashed for $1,610,000 as the runner-up, the second-largest payday of his career.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Sergio Martinez Gonzalez | $2,340,000 | 1080 |
| 2 | Biao Ding | $1,610,000 | 900 |
| 3 | Lin Wei | $1,055,000 | 720 |
| 4 | Zhikang Dai | $854,000 | 540 |
| 5 | Tom Vogelsang | $686,000 | 450 |
| 6 | Mads Amot | $536,000 | 360 |
| 7 | Wenjie Huang | $423,000 | 270 |
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