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Daniel Dvoress has captured his seventh Triton title, defeating fellow Canadian Xuan Liu heads-up in the $30,000 NLH 8-Handed event at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Jeju. The win earned Dvoress $942,000 and completed a reversal of fortune against Liu, who beat him last May at Triton Montenegro to become the first woman to win a Triton championship.
Dvoress, whose live earnings now exceed $54 million, controlled the final table from start to finish. He began the day with the chip lead and never relinquished it, running well throughout the late stages of the tournament.
“I think I won every single all in,” Dvoress said in a winner’s interview with PokerNews, “or something close to that.”
Taiwan’s Candy Lin briefly threatened to give Triton a second female champion before finishing fourth, eliminated when her pocket nines were outdrawn by Dvoress’s king-eight suited. Lithuania’s Gytis Lazauninkas fell next, sending Dvoress into heads-up play with a commanding lead over Liu.
Despite Liu’s earlier comeback win over him in Montenegro, Dvoress held firm this time, joking afterward that Liu had tried to recreate their previous “deja vu” finish. The final table also featured notable pros Ben Tollerene, who took eighth for $118,000, and Stephen Chidwick, who finished fifth for $279,000, inching closer to Bryn Kenney on poker’s all-time money list.
The victory strengthens Dvoress’s position in the Triton Player of the Year race, a title he called “prestigious” and lucrative. He wasted little time celebrating, immediately entering the $40,000 Mystery Bounty event to continue his pursuit of the POY crown.
