2025 Triton ONE Jeju
Level: 4
Blinds: 1,500/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Players have been sent on their first 15-minute break of the day with the clocks showing 165 players remaining.
Table nine was suddenly left four-handed after three players had been knocked out in the last two orbits. Boris Kolev re-entered while Rowan Wong hero-called at the wrong time to be left with no chips.
Ivan Karatayeu raised to 5,000 for Kolev to call and Wong came along in the big blind. The trio checked the Q♠2♣2♦ flop and the 8♠ came on the turn. It was checked to Kolev who bet 14,000 and Wong called, Karatayeu raised to 55,000 and Wong was the only caller.
That led the duo to the 5♦ on the river on which Wong checked with 186,000 behind. Karatayeu bet 300,000 and his opponent tank-called with the 6♥2♥ for trips deuces to get out-kicked by Karatayeu's A♥2♠.
The year 2025 may go down as one of the best stretches in history for women in poker, and it started weeks before Shiina Okamoto won her second straight World Series of Poker (WSOP) Ladies Event or Leo Margets became the first woman in poker's modern era to make the final table of the Main Event.
Indeed, the landmark year for women in poker kicked off in May when longtime pro Xuan Liu made history by becoming the first woman to win a Triton Poker title. Months after taking down the WPT Global Slam at Triton Montenegro for a career-best $860,000, Liu is back on the Triton battlefield and seeking another title at the inaugural Triton ONE festival on South Korea's Jeju Island.
It was here that PokerNews caught up with Liu to talk about the historic victory, the role tournament poker plays in her life today and what the future holds for a grinder who is always looking to "reinvent myself."
Alex Foxen opened to 4,500 in the hijack and Che-Lun Liu defended in the big blind.
Liu checked on the flop of 5♠9♣9♦ and Foxen continued for 3,000. Liu called. Both players then checked on the 5♥ turn.
The 7♠ river completed the board and Liu bet 12,000. Foxen folded.
Taiwan's Chih-Yuan Wang had already doubled his stack in the early stages and now added even more chips shortly after Jamil Wakil had entered the tournament and sat down at his table.
The action started with a raise to 5,000 by Tom Fuchs which was called by Wang, Wakil and Spencer Champlin behind them to the J♠10♦2♦ flop. It checked to Wakil on the button and he bet 12,000 for Wang to call. After the Q♠ turn, Wang check-called for 40,000 and check-called the 6♥ river for another 110,000.
Wakil revealed the 2♠2♣ for a flopped set of deuces but Wang had turned the second nut straight with the K♦9♣.
Sergei Moiseev opened to 4,000 from under the gun and Nick Petrangelo three-bet to 14,000 in the cutoff. Cheng Cheng then four-bet to 40,000 on the button.
Moiseev folded and Petrangelo five-bet jammed a stack of 288,000 to bring a quick fold from Cheng.
South Korea's Hyunyeong Kang opened the action with a raise to 4,500 in the cutoff and he then called a three-bet to 17,000 by Nariman Yaghmai out of the small blind. On the J♣9♥3♥ flop, Yaghmai continued for 10,000 to pick up a call and then bet the 2♠ turn for another 40,000. Kang called once again and the J♥ river paired the board while also completing a flush draw as well.
Yaghmai slowed down and checked, allowing Kang to bet 160,000 with some 87,000 behind. That won the pot uncontested as Yaghmai opted to fold.