Kiat Lee Wins Final Title of 2025 Triton Poker Jeju Festival

More than $148.7 million in prize money was paid out across the 18 events that made up the 2025 Triton Poker Jeju high-stakes tournament festival. The final event wrapped up during the wee hours of Sunday, Mar. 16, with Kiat Lee defeating a field of 31 entries in the $25,000 short deck turbo event.

The Malaysian player earned $264,000 in the last-chance affair, along with his first trident trophy. Lee now has more than $13.8 million in career cashes, with more than $11.5 million of that coming from his 33 cashes in Triton events.

“It means a lot to me,” Lee told Triton reporters after coming out on top. “I always wanted to win a title.”

This one-day affair had $775,000 in total prize money to award, with the top six finishers all earning a slice. Ten-time Triton champion Jason Koon was knocked out on the bubble with pocket tens against the A-K of Lee, who flopped an ace and held from there.

Five-time Triton champion and 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Ivey was the first to hit the rail inside the money, with his K-J losing to A-K suited for two-time Super High Roller Bowl champion Isaac Haxton. Ivey earned $54,000 as the sixth-place finisher, surpassing $48.4 million in career earnings in the process.

Lun Loon soon followed (5th – $70,000) when his A-K ran into the pocket kings of Lee. Four-handed action then continued for a while before Rene Van Krevelen’s pocket eights lost a preflop showdown against the KQ of Michael Zhang, who made kings full by the river to secure the knockout. Van Krevelen earned $89,000 as the fourth-place finisher.

Haxton’s run came to an end in third place when his KQ was run down by the Q10 of Lee. The chips went in preflop and the 876AK runout gave Lee a winning flush. Haxton was awarded $116,000 for his podium showing. He now has nearly $53.9 million in career cashes.

Heads-up play began with Zhang holding 5,500,000 to Lee’s 3,800,000. Lee surged into the lead thanks to a big win with quads against the sevens full of tens of Zhang. Not long after that, Zhang got the last of his chips in with QJ facing A8 for Lee. The board came down K96A6 and Lee’s aces and sixes secured him the title.

Zhang earned $182,000 as the runner-up. Earlier in the same day he had finished third in the $50,000 short deck event for $326,000, which meant that he earned a total of $508,000 across the pair of podium showings.

Final Table Results

Photo credit: Triton Poker.

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