$3.5M+ in cashes - Team Pokercode dominates in Montenegro

Two days into the festival, Mario Mosboeck beat his friend Danny Tang heads-up to win Event #3 for $928,000 - the first all-ambassador heads-up in Triton history. Three days later, Fedor Holz returned to the Triton stage for the first time in a year and won Event #5 for $1,208,811 including bounties - his fifth Triton title, exactly ten years after winning the first ever event on the tour. Behind them, the rest of the team stacked six more final tables.

Festival in numbers

Mario got there first

The night Mario Mosboeck won, two Triton ambassadors sat heads-up for the trophy for the first time in the tour's history. Mario on one side. Danny Tang - five titles deep, chasing his sixth - on the other.

The $30K NLH 8-Handed went 133 entries deep. From 20 to nine in 90 minutes. Then the final ran for ten hours. Mario and Danny traded the chip lead a half-dozen times. Mario flipped for his tournament life with a four-outer at one point and spiked it. Four hands later he closed it out for $928,000 - his fourth Triton title in just three years on tour.

Ten years later, it's Fedor again

Fedor doesn't play as much as he used to. He shows up at one or two Triton stops a year. And he keeps winning them.

Event #5 - the $40K Mystery Bounty - went 111 entries deep. Fedor took $528,811 from the main prize pool, plus $680,000 in bounty pulls (including a clean $200K envelope) for a total of $1,208,811. He beat Aleks Ponakovs heads-up after a swingy battle that saw Ponakovs claw back the lead. Fedor closed it with a final-hand bluff-catch holding queen-ten high.

It's his fifth Triton title - exactly ten years after he won the very first event Triton ever ran, back in the Philippines in 2016.

The internal Triton title race

The Pokercode-internal title leaderboard now reads:

Matthias is still on top by one, with Fedor closing the gap to one and Mario climbing into the top three. Sixteen titles between them.

The deep runs behind the titles

It started right out of the gate. Fabi Niederreiter made his Triton debut in Event #1 - the $25K Golden Decade - and ran it to a 6th place finish for $195,000. Samuel Mullur went one better at the same final table, finishing 4th for $314,000. The very next night, Event #2 produced another two: Curtis Knight - the Discord-commenter turned MTT coach turned Triton regular - finished 4th for $265,000, with fellow Pokercode coach Hannes Jeschka 6th for $166,000 at the same final table.

Then Matthias delivered the biggest single non-winning score of the festival. Going into the nine-handed final of the $150K 10th Anniversary Special as chip leader, Eibinger eventually busted in 4th for $1,088,000 - a seven-figure score in what Triton called one of the toughest final tables in tour history (32 Triton titles between the nine players, four Main Event champion's watches). Plus Tom Fuchs's 4th in the $30K Turbo for $241,000, and Mullur deep again at the same final for $193,000.

What this proves

Fabi was at his first ever Triton final table on Day 1. Curtis was at another final table on Day 2, alongside fellow coach Hannes Jeschka. Mario won an event no one in Pokercode colours had ever won this way. Fedor, who barely plays anymore, won his fifth. Matthias started the toughest final table of the festival as chip leader and finished fourth for $1.08M. That's not one player getting hot - that's the same group, the same study circle, the same coaches, all showing up in the money at the same festival.