Christoph Vogelsang Surges Back From A Single Big Blind To Win Triton Monte Carlo $100,000 Buy-In

Christoph Vogelsang has cashed for tens of millions of dollars on the live tournament circuit. Despite plenty of deep runs, though, the German poker pro had not closed out a victory in more than six years. 2,300 days after his victory in the 2017 ARIA Summer High Roller Series, Vogelsang finally broke through for another title by taking down the 2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo $100,000 no-limit hold’em eight-max event. He defeated a field of 120 entries to secure the long-awaited trophy and the top prize of $2,644,000.

This is the third-largest score on Voegelsang’s resume, trailing only the $6,000,000 he earned as the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl champion and the $4,480,001 he was awarded for finishing third in the 2014 World Series of Poker Big One For One Drop million-dollar buy-in event. The 38-year-old now has more than $32.3 million in lifetime earnings, good for second on Germany’s all-time money list behind Fedor Holz ($41.9 million).

The final day of this event began with 47 players still in contention and only 20 set to make the money. By the time the final table was set, it was bracelet winner and 2023 Card Player Player of the Year contender Nacho Barbero in the lead. Vogelsang, who had been down to a single big blind before the bubble, had managed to spin his stack back up 25 blinds to put himself in the middle of the pack.

Ten-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey was looking for a sixth Triton title, but ultimately hit the rail in eighth place ($372,000) when his K-Q ran into the A-Q suited of Punnat Punsri. Ivey now has more than $40.5 million in lifetime earnings after this latest deep run.

Recent Triton turbo event winner Jonathan Jaffe (7th – $504,000) and 2023 Triton Cyprus $20,000 short deck champion Daniel Dvoress (6th – $672,000) were both knocked out when they ran into pocket aces.

Vogelsang was the one with the aces in Dvoress’ final hand. He scored another big win when his A-9 held against the Q-J of Ben Heath, who had him barely covered. Vogelsang scored the final blow on the next hand to send Heath home with $858,000 for his fifth-place showing.

The final four were now all guaranteed at least $1,068,000 for making it this far. That sum ultimately went to Punsri, whose K-7 suited was unable to beat out the J-8 of Barbero in an all-in confrontation. Punsri now sits in 26th place in the POY standings after this, his 12th final-table finish of the year.

Four-time Triton champion Danny Tang’s run came to an end when his AK failed to hold up against the A7 of Barbero on a Q10767 runout. Tang was awarded $1,296,000 for his 17th final-table finish of 2023. With 5,999 POY points, six titles, and more than $6.7 million in to-date POY earnings, Tang has moved into 10th place on the POY leaderboard.

Heads-up play began with Barbero in the lead. The final two hashed out a deal that left $500,000 and the title to play for while guaranteeing $2,144,000 to Vogelsang and $2,190,000 for Barbero. Vogelsang soon overtook the lead, but the pair traded the advantage back and forth a bit before the final hand arose. The chips went in with Vogelsang’s K10 leading Barbero’s Q8. The board ran out Q959K to send Barbero the rail with the nearly $2.2 million he had negotiated for.

This was the 15th final-table finish of the year for Barbero, with three titles won and more than $9.8 million in POY earnings accrued along the way. With 9,016 points earned hs now sits in second place in the 2023 standings, trailing only Bin Weng (10,180 points).

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Photo credits: Triton Poker / Joe Giron.

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