Fedor Holz Wins 2024 Triton Poker Jeju Kickoff Event

The first event of the 2024 Triton Poker Jeju festival in South Korea saw a record 269 entries made for $15,000 a piece, creating a prize pool of $4,035,000. In the end, it was 30-yar-old German poker pro Fedor Holz who emerged victorious with the title and the top prize of $786,000.

This was the 19th recorded title from 119 in-the-money finishes for Holz. This score saw him surpass $42.8 million in career tournament earnings, which is good for 11th place on poker’s all-time money list. remains the highest-earning German player in the history of the game. he is one of only 15 players to ever surpass $40 million in career cashes.

Holz also earned 1,296 Card Player Player of the Year_ points for the win, enough to see him move into 25th place in the 2024 POy standings presented by Global Poker.

The huge turnout at the Landing Casino Jeju resulted in the top 47 finishers making the money. Several big names fell just short of making the final table, including two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs (17th), two-time POY award winner Stephen Chidwick (12th), and bracelet winner Isaac Haxton (10th), who took down an Asian Poker Tour high roller in Taipei just days before this event began.

By the time the final table was set, Seth Gottlieb had seized the lead while Holz sat in fourth chip position among the remaining nine contenders. Gottlieb pulled even further away when he knocked out bracelet winner Pieter Aerts (9th – $81,000) on the first hand of the final table. Holz’s then pocket tens bested the K-9 of Ken Tong (8th – $98,000) to narrow the field to seven.

Josh Mccully was the next to fall, with two-time bracelet winner Nick Petrangelo sending him packing in seventh place ($134,000). Lun Loon overtook the chip lead at one point during six-handed play, but ultimately was eliminated in sixth when his A-J ran into the A-Q suited of bracelet winner and European Poker Tour champion Dimitar Danchev. Loon earned $182,000 for his latest deep run.

Holz secured a big double up when his pocket queens beat out the A-4 suited of Dominykas Mikolaitis. The online tournament regular from Lithuania was left short and went on to finish fifth for $240,000.

Petrangelo’s run concluded when his K-Q clashed with the pocket kings of Gottlieb. He was unable to come from behind and settled for $303,000 as the fourth-place finisher. The American poker pro now has nearly $33.2 million in career earnings after this, his 164th recorded cash.

A battle of the blinds saw Danchev’s A-4 suited bested by the A-10 of Holz, which made a diamond flush to earn him the pot and the knockout. Danchev was awarded $375,000 as the third-place finisher.

Heads-up play began with Holz holding 20,750,000 to Gottlieb’s 33,050,000. That lead was extended in the early going, but slowplayed pocket aces for Gottlieb ran into rivered trips for Holz to even the playing field. Holz soon doubled into the lead when his A-8 held against K-J. Gottlieb got the last of his stack in with Q10 not long after that and was up against JJ for Holz. The board ran out A5286 and Holz’s jacks earned him the pot and the title. Gottlieb took home $500,000 as the runner-up finisher.

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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