Bryn Kenney is the champion of the Triton Montenegro Main Event, winning $2.7 million for his efforts, enough to bring him up to fourth place on poker’s all-time earnings list. He now also moves into second place on New York’s career list, less than $400,000 shy of catching Erik Seidel.
With that victory, Kenney wrapped up an impressive series at the Triton Super High Roller Series. He cashed for, get this, $4.14 million in the series, including two titles. Not a bad way to prepare for the World Series of Poker.
Heater of a Lifetime
Bryn Kenney is on a heater reminiscent of Justin Bonomo last year or Fedor Holz in 2016. On top of those $4.14 million in cashes out in Montenegro we already mentioned, the New Yorker has an additional $5 million in tournament earnings this year, bringing his 2019 total over $9.1 million, for those of you who don’t have a calculator handy.
Here’s an even crazier stat, one that seems almost unbelievable to those who grind low and mid-stakes poker games. Bryn’s $2.7 million score in the Main Event, which is life-changing money for most, isn’t even his biggest cash of the year. In March, he also scooped the HK $2,000,000 No-Limit Hold’em for HK $24,039,500, which equates to $3,062,513 in US dollars.
He’s gone from around $25 million in career cashes to just under $35 million in five months. That puts him at fourth all-time and second in his home state of New York, about $350,000 behind Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel.
Sick Final Table
Speaking of Seidel, he had an opportunity to keep a firmer grip on his lead on Friday. The 1988 WSOP Main Event runner-up also made the final table but was eliminated in seventh place for $440,842. That provided Kenney an opportunity to nearly catch him on New York’s all-time list.
Kenney’s run to the Triton Main Event champion wasn’t all luck. In a hand against the young up-and-coming Mikita Bodziakouski, he pulled off a crucial bluff with a low pair on a straight connected board.
💥 What a great bluff by Bryn Kenney 🇺🇸 (@BrynKenney) to make Mikita Badziakouski 🇧🇾 fold what would have been a tide turning hand!! 🌊
🎥 Only 3 left at the 💸 HKD 1m NLH Main Event so tune in folks: https://t.co/YD58raNsrv pic.twitter.com/Xqla9aUgv8
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) May 10, 2019
Triton’s Main Event saw 44 players enter with 31 of them re-buying. Just nine players cashed with Jason Koon being the first to go (ninth place) after the bubble burst. He earned $261,193. Sam Greenwood, Erik Seidel, Mikita Badziakouski, and Paul Phua were among those who made the final table.
Triton Montenegro Main Event Results
- Bryn Kenney (USA) $2,713,859
- Daniel Tang (Hong Kong) $1,796,498
- Peter Jetten (Canada) $1,223,148
- Mikita Badziakouski (Belarus) $925,005
- Sam Greenwood (Canada) $719,873)
- Paul Phua (Malaysia) $560,609
- Erik Seidel (USA) $440,842
- Matthias Eibinger (Austria) $341,462
- Jason Koon (USA) $261,193
