Jason Koon fights Daniel Dvoress for $1.3M in heads-up battle at Triton

Triton Jeju 2026 $100K Short Deck

March 17

ENTRIES ($100000) IN THE MONEY

46

8

PRIZE POOL $4,600,000

2ND PRIZE $997K

FIRST PRIZE $1.4M

65

Cashes for Daniel Dvoress in Triton events, good for fourth on the all-time list behind Stephen Chidwick, Jason Koon, and top-earner Bryn Kenney. 

1st

VS

2nd

1st

Daniel Dvoress

Prize

$1,380,000

Career Earnings: $48,704,960

PRIZE

2nd

Jason Koon

Prize

$997,000

Career Earnings: $71,380,655

PRIZE

1st

Daniel Dvoress

2nd

Jason Koon

Final Hand

Prize

$1,380,000

Career Earnings: $48,704,960

PRIZE

Prize

$997,000

Career Earnings: $71,380,655

PRIZE

RESULTS

1. 1ST Daniel Dvoress $1,380,000
2. 2ND Jason Koon $997,000
3. 3RD Winfred Yu $646,000
4. 4TH Kiat Lee $487,000
5. 5TH Ruslan Khadartsev $378,000
6. 6TH Chan Wai Leong $293,000
7. 7TH Mike Watson $235,000
8. 8TH Michael Zhang $184,000

Final Hand

EXPAND GRAPHIC

It was almost a 13th Triton win for America's Jason Koon on Tuesday in South Korea, but Canada's Daniel Dvoress stepped in to notch his third in the $100K Short Deck finale at Triton Jeju. 

The final two players outlasted the 46-entry field and played all night before Dvoress finally went over, adding a second Short Deck trophy to a collection of three that also includes a Triton PLO win. Koon, who still tops the all-time wins list by a mile over a group tied with five, fell short of a 13th Triton trophy for the second time at the Jeju stop after a third-place run in the $25K version of this event. 

Daniel Dvoress is climbing the all-time rankings.

Short Deck remains popular on the Triton tour, though it has fallen out of the regular public's interest since its original introduction at the WSOP in 2019. Players get two cards and play at a community board of five, but everything below six is removed from the deck. The high-variance version of hold'em is popular among the splashy international pros, but it has yet to catch on away from the high-stakes scene. 

Koon and Dvoress climb the all-time list

Second-place money will help Koon inch further to the top of the all-time money list, where he sits in third behind Stephen Chidwick and Bryn Kenney. Meanwhile, Dvoress is making some headway of his own. Prior to this win, the Canadian pro had added $2.9M over the last six months to jump from 17th to 15th on the all-time money list. This victory will bump him up to $48.7 million and change, enough to pass Erik Seidel for the 14th spot. The Canadian crusher still trails Daniel Negreanu on their country's all-time money list, with nearly $10 million to go to close that gap. 

It's hard to call Jason Koon's 13th title elusive, but it has been out of his grasp in Jeju.

Dvoress also did his part to tap the breaks an early international trend in 2026, where Canada has already played the losing side against the USA in Men's Ice Hockey, Women's Ice Hockey, and even exhibition baseball. 

The Super High Roller Series portion of Triton Jeju is now fully under way after a successful Triton ONE festival that drew 1,230 entries to its $8,000 Main Event. A schedule of 17 events fills out the rest of the month with buy-ins that range from $25,000 to $100,000, capped off by dual PLO and NLH Main Events with a $100,000 buy-in. They'll run back-to-back, with the NLH portion from March 24-26 before the PLO runs March 29-31. 

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