Ben Tollerene Takes PLO Title At Triton Super High Roller Poker SeriesTollerene Pops Career Earnings Up To Nearly $18 Million With Monte Carlo Win |
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Ben Tollerene grabbed the most recent title at the Triton Super High Roller Poker Series at Sporting Monte-Carlo with a win in the $50,000 buy-in six-max pot-limit Omaha event. The top payout was worth $1,070,000 in Monaco, and that took his earnings just shy of $18 million.
“It’s great, I was having a terrible trip. A couple of bubbles. I was just excited to play a different game, play some PLO,” said Tollerene to reporters after the win.
There were 84 entries in the field, with the top 14 cashing for at least $78,000 in prize money. All of those players returned for the final day of play in this two-day tournament (with a crazy 39 hands played out hand-for-hand on the bubble to end a late Day 1).
Familiar faces that made the money included Luc Greenwood (14th), Jonas Kronwitter (13th), Girk ‘VeniVidi’ Gerritse (12th), Jason Koon (11th), and Santhosh Suvarna (10th).
Tollerene was second in chips when the final table began, and he soon increased his stack by eliminating Mads Amot in sixth place. Joni Jouhkimainen started the final table with the lead, but his endgame surprisingly came to a close in fifth place, and once again it was Tollerene scoring the bustout. Jouhkimainen cashed for $217,000, giving him $7.6 million for his career.
Tollerene was on a roll, and kept it going when Tollerene took out Zhou Quan in fourth place. Quan, a high roller regular with a Triton title and numerous deep runs, now has more than $10 million in recorded earnings after adding $393,000 in Monte Carlo.
PLO specialist and 2022 WSOP main event third-place finisher Michael Duek had been quiet at the final table up until that point, but then he took out a player who chose to remain anonymous in third place to give him 23 big blinds in the final battle against Tollerene’s 43.
It took just three hands of play after that to wrap things up, however. In that fateful last hand Duek pegged his tournament hopes on a flush draw on the flop, but it couldn’t get there against the two-pair held by Tollerene who won the tournament.
Duek was awarded $736,000, and that put the Florida poker player’s career earnings above $7.3 million.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY |
| 1 | Ben Tollerene | $1,070,000 | 816 |
| 2 | Michael Duek | $736,000 | 680 |
| 3 | Anonymous | $485,000 | N/A |
| 4 | Quan Zhou | $393,000 | 408 |
| 5 | Joni Jouhkimainen | $314,500 | 340 |
| 6 | Mads Amot | $244,500 | 272 |
The Triton Super High Roller Poker Series in Monte Carlo runs from Nov. 1-14.
Photo: Triton Poker
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