It was another red-hot start for the 2022 Ivan Leow Triton Player of the Year. In Cyprus in May, he won a $20,000 event for $663,000 about a week before winning $2.4 million in the $100,000 Main Event.Īt the very next Triton Super High Roller stop in London, he won the $63,000 short deck contest for $828,000 only a week after winning $1.57 million for taking down a $63,000 7-handed event. He even won two events in two different cities twice. Going into the Series’ closer, a $26,000 Pot Limit Omaha turbo event that saw 35 entries (15 rebuys), Koon was looking at his streak of winning at least one Triton event per stop in 2023 to be broken. “It’s bizarre to get wiped out (while) playing really well.” “Every night I go home and I study my play and I think I played the best I’ve played in a couple of years,” Koon told a Triton reporter. Jason Koon is now a 10-time TritonSuper High Roller Champion. In fact, 11 events had gone by at the Salle des Etoiles at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club and he hadn’t even made a final table, even though he said he was playing as well as ever. How Much Money Can You Make Playing Poker?Īs the Triton Poker Super High Roller series in Monte Carlo began its final tournament, something seemed amiss: Jason Koon had yet to win an event.
