Ben Tollerene has set the pace for the $100K Triton Main Event final table in Jeju, where Kristen Foxen is among a group of Triton regulars chasing the big $3.76 million prize.
Tollerene has 73 big blinds and a lot of space ahead of second-place Yu Yang, but Triton heavies Elton Tsang and Punnat Punsri are lurking just behind. American Sean Winter and Canadian Foxen join after that, followed by Tom Fuchs and the short stack Felipe Ketzer.
Elias Parssinen hit the rail in 10th-place to set up this final nine, who will all return on Thursday to play for it the big prize at Triton's livestreamed final table.
A look at the final group:
Tollerene leads scary Triton Main final table
Ben Tollerene - 10,875,000 (73 bb)
Ben Tollerene- Career earnings: $32,417,102
Ben Tollerene has three Triton titles and 24 cashes, which add up to over $12 million in earnings on the high-stakes tour. It's a fraction of his $32 million in lifetime poker money, which also includes a lot of big finishes on the PokerGO Tour, the World Poker Tour, and all parts in between.
The chip leader can actually finish with a new high score with a win. His previous best, a second-place effort in the $250K bracelet event at the 2024 WSOP, earned $3.5 million. Any finish of fifth or better would be his eighth seven-figure win.
Xu Yang - 6,625,000 (44 bb)
Xu Yang- Career earnings: $278,100
The relatively unknown Xu Yang has just five cashes on the Triton tour, but he's only been jumping in since last year's Jeju stop. He didn't cash in his first time out, but he would return for Jeju II later in 2025 and cash twice.
Yang returned to Jeju a third time this month for Triton One, where he found his first final table in the $5K NLH 7-Handed event. A fourth-place finish earned $84K and it was off to the $15K Triton One High Roller for a 31st-place win worth $37K.
Now Yang is at the final table of the $100K Main Event for the Super High Roller portion of the Jeju stop. He's already struck out five times in five-figure buy-ins ranging from $20K-50K, but this final table effort has wiped the slate clean with a min-cash of $385K waiting.
Elton Tsang - 5,400,000 (36 bb)
Elton Tsang- Career earnings: $27,330,299
Elton Tsang's career earnings are just over $27 million and almost half of that comes from Triton events, where he has won twice and cashed 21 times. His last Triton win came in the Jeju II event in 2025, where he grabbed $1.6 million for winning the $100K Short Deck. The other victory dates back to the Jeju stop in 2024, where he won the $150K buy-in for $4.2 million and then finished third in the $100K for $2.1 million the next day.
Tsang, however, has no shot at a new career best. His previous was a $12 million win in the $1M Big One for One Drop in Monte Carlo in 2016.
Punnat Punsri - 5,150,000 (34 bb)
Punnat Punsri- Career earnings: $33,359,471
Punnat Punsri had yet to cash yet at the 2026 Jeju stop, where he blanked on eight events so far. But that's ok because he's at the final table of the Main Event. A win would be Punsri's sixth Triton trophy and this is his 42nd cash, the former being good for a logjam tie in second far behind Jason Koon.
Over $25 million of his career earnings are from Triton events, so this is where he eats. Punsri may be the favorite, even with a fourth-best stack. A win would also be a new high score, topping a $3.1 million third-place finish at a $250K Triton Event in London in 2023.
Sean Winter - 4,175,000 (28 bb)
Sean Winter- Career earnings: $37,310,010
Florida's Sean Winter made the trip to Jeju, where he's after a second Triton win and millions of dollars. He can get both on Thursday, provided he beats eight other people at this final table. It's been a decent trip, so far, and this is Winter's second final table after a seventh-place score for $120K in the $40K Mystery Bounty. Another 12th-place run in the $60K 8-Max earned $142K on the road to this final table that is worth well more than $3 million.
Winter has a smaller percentage of his career earnings from Triton events compared to the others, but he's in top form after a $210K win on the way out the door at this month's PokerGO Tour. He's well-tested all over the world and a dangerous factor from the middle of the pack.
Kristen Foxen - 3,825,000 (26 bb)
Kristen Foxen- Career earnings: $13,486,462
Kristen Foxen attended her first Triton event in London in 2019, where she did not cash in three different attempts. She would return later that year in Rozvadov and finish sixth in the Super High Roller for €213K, but Foxen didn't play in another Triton event until 2024, when she attended the Monte Carlo festival.
Foxen was 1-for-6 with a single 23rd-place finish for $50K in Monte Carlo and then fire a blank in the $100K Main Event at WSOP Paradise at the end of that year. The second Jeju stop in 2025, however, started the upswing.
Three cashes in Jeju led to three more in Montenegro. A return trip to Jeju added a third-place Mystery Bounty finish over $200K and a third-place win in the $125K for more than $1.1 million. It was a breakout that led to two more six-figure wins at WSOP Paradise at the end of last year.
Foxen has only one cash at this stop, which was her 15th, but she still chases her first Triton trophy.
Philip Sternheimer - 3,775,000 (25 bb)
Philip Sternheimer- Career earnings: $6,247,581
Philip Sternheimer has four cashes at Triton events for $1.8 million, which makes up about a third of his career total. The Englishman is on a bit of a run with two big finishes at the PGT Mixed Games festival after three six-figure wins at WSOP Paradise to close out last year.
Sternheimer can beat his career high with a sixth-place finish, topping his WSOP bracelet win in the $10K PLO event in 2025 for $763K.
Tom Fuchs - 3,550,000 (24 bb)
Tom Fuchs- Career earnings: $4,463,534
Germany's Tom Fuchs has 12 cashes and $2.5 million in earnings at Triton events, which makes up more than half of his earnings. It's been a hot streak in Jeju for Fuchs, who is trying to parlay his 10th-place finish in the $50K into much more in the Main Event. He also doubled his money in the $20K and tripled it in the Triton ONE Main Event with a 48th-place run for $26K.
Despite one of the lower career counts, Fuchs will need to finish fourth to mark a new best. He has already won more than $1.2 million and a bracelet in the $50K High Roller at WSOP Paradise.
Felipe Ketzer - 1,150,000 (8 bb)
Felipe Ketzer- Career earnings: $3,175,870
The short stack has some work to do, but the Brazilian can do it. Felipe Ketzer is a consistent finisher on the money board at events around the world, but he's looking for his first breakthrough win (and millions of dollars.) Ketzer has a PokerStars Spadie from a High Roller at EPT Barcelona, but this would be bigger than that by ten times.
He has just four Triton cashes for $192K, so this is already his best. A win would double his career earnings over night.
All nine players return to the final table on Thursday that will be livestreamed on the Triton Poker Plus app.
Images courtesy of Triton Poker. Data courtesy of The Hendon Mob.
