The turnout at the Landing Casino Jeju created a massive $21.6-million prize pool
The 2024 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju festival in South Korea made tournament poker history after 216 entrants in the $100,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold ’em main event set a new record. The huge turnout at the Landing Casino Jeju created a massive $21,600,000 prize pool, with champion Roman Hrabec securing the $4,330,000 top prize.
The win was the 28-year-old Czech poker pro’s largest tournament cash, smashing the $915,000 earned for finishing third in a 2023 World Series of Poker Online $10,300 buy-in event. Hrabec has now surpassed $9.4 million in career earnings.
This was Hrabac’s fourth final table of 2024. He has 2,955 total points and almost $5.1 million in POY earnings to date and is now third on the Global Poker 2024 POY leaderboard.
Alex Kulev was the first eliminated from the final table, earning $451,000 in ninth place. Two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer finished eighth for $543,000, and Ukrainian Igor Yaroshevskyy was next to fall in seventh for a career-high $739,000 score.
Fahredin Mustafov secured $1,008,000 for sixth place, Matthias Eibinger earned $1,330,000 for fifth, and Patrik Antonius finished fourth for $1,697,000, taking his career winnings over $19.1 million.
Elton Tsang, who made the final table at the series two largest buy-in events, was sent home in third place for $2,105,000, bringing his total for the series to over $6.4 million.
Hrabec held about a 5:2 chip lead over Jean Noel Thorel at the start of heads-up, and the balance did not shift before the final hand when Hrabac hit a set of kings to secure the title. Thorel would take home a career-best payday of $2,875,000 as runner-up.
