Before the poker world converges on Las Vegas for the summer, the Triton Super High Roller Series is set to grab all of the headlines for two weeks in Montenegro.
Starting on May 13 and running through May 27, the Maestral Resort & Casino will bring the Triton Super High Roller Series to Montenegro for the fourth time.
And for the first time ever, the Triton Super High Roller Series is bringing its famous $200,000 Triton Invitational to Montenegro, starting on May 19.
Evening the Triton playing field
The $200,000 buy-in event has become a signature feature of Triton Super High Roller Series events, with a list of 'amateur' invitees signing up for the tournament and allowed to designate one 'professional' counterpart who is allowed to enter the event as well.
The amateurs play the first day of the event in a sequestered pool of players, and the professionals duke it out in their own Day 1 until the field is combined on Day 2. Most recently, Patrik Antonius defeated Vladimir 'Gambledore' Korzinin of Estonia in Monte Carlo back in November. Other Invitational winners over the years include Dan Smith, Bryn Kenney, Ramin Hajiyev and Sam Grafton.
Almost $1 million in buy-ins on the schedule
There will be plenty of other opportunities throughout the rest of the 15-event Triton Super High Roller Montenegro schedule, including the $100,000 Triton Main Event starting on May 21, a $150,000 event on May 23, and a $100,000 Pot Limit Omaha Main Event on May 25.
Buy-ins start at $25,000 - which includes the opening event, 'WPT Global Slam,' and two other events - and scale all the way up into six figures.
Like almost every Triton event before it, the Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro is likely to reshape poker's all-time money list in drastic ways. Since Triton ran its first events in 2016, eight separate players have won at least $20 million in their events. Kenney sits No. 1 on the all-time Triton money list with $48,218,135 - making up almost two-thirds of his $75.8 million in overall career winnings, according to The Hendon Mob.
Triton has recently stated they will start offering much lower buy-in events, but they won't be featured at Montenegro.
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