Daniel Dvoress added a seventh Triton Poker title to his resume on September 9, denying Xuan Liu a shot at back-to-back history in the $30,000 NLH 8-Handed event at the 2026 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II. The Canadian topped a stacked 135-entry field to collect $942,000, closing out the tournament with a heads-up win over the very player who had beaten him for a Triton title just a few months earlier.
A Rematch Four Months in the Making
The final hand carried an unusual amount of storyline for a high-roller poker event. Back in May, Xuan Liu defeated Dvoress heads-up in the WPT Global Slam at Triton Montenegro, banking $860,000 and becoming the first woman to win an outright Triton Poker title, a milestone that made headlines across the poker world. When the draw sent the same two Canadians to the final two seats in Jeju, the poker community immediately recognized the rematch angle, and this time it was Dvoress who closed the door, describing his run through the field afterward with typical understatement: “I think I won every single all in. Or something close to that.”
That comment undersold what was, by any measure, a dominant performance. Dvoress had to survive a 135-entry field made up of 91 unique players and 44 re-entries, a lineup thick with the regulars who populate the Triton tour’s $30,000-and-up events. The buy-in level all but guarantees a table of seasoned crushers and mixed-game specialists, and Dvoress outlasted all of them to reach heads-up against Liu for the second time in four months.
Inside the Numbers
The 135 entries built a prize pool of $4,050,000, with the top 23 finishers cashing. Dvoress’s $942,000 first-place score comfortably outpaced Liu’s $638,000 for second, and the payouts down the stretch reflected just how deep and international the field ran. Lithuania’s Gytis Lazauninkas took third for $424,000, Taiwan’s Candy Lin followed in fourth for $348,000, and British high-roller mainstay Stephen Chidwick rounded out the top five with $279,000. China’s Jingyao Yan (sixth, $217,000), Malaysia’s Lun Loon (seventh, $160,000) and American pro Ben Tollerene (eighth, $118,000) completed a final table that spanned five countries across three continents, underlining just how global the modern Triton ecosystem has become.
Dvoress Extends His Triton Legacy
The win was the seventh Triton title of Dvoress’s career, a tally that places him among the tour’s most consistent performers since the series launched in 2018. Dvoress, who has built his reputation as one of the most feared mixed-game and no-limit hold’em specialists on the high-stakes circuit, now sits on career live tournament earnings north of $54 million, a figure that reflects more than a decade of grinding the sport’s toughest fields, from Triton stops in Jeju, Montenegro and Madrid to marquee events at the WSOP and Super High Roller Bowl.
What made this particular title sweeter was the opponent. Liu’s Montenegro breakthrough in May had been a landmark result not just for her personally but for women’s participation at the sport’s highest stakes, where final tables worth seven figures remain overwhelmingly male. Beating the tour’s newest star attraction heads-up, in a near carbon-copy final of their previous meeting, gave Dvoress a measure of revenge while simultaneously proving that Liu’s Montenegro win was no fluke; she reached the top two in one of the toughest events on the 2026 calendar for the second time in four months.
Triton Jeju II Keeps Rolling
The $30,000 NLH 8-Handed event was event number six on the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II schedule, part of a stacked lineup running from September 4 through September 17 at the Jeju Shinhwa World resort in South Korea. The series has already produced a string of headline moments this edition, from a flopped straight flush on the opening day that coincided with Phil Ivey’s return to the tour, to Wiktor Malinowski’s wild $1.81 million pot in a separate heads-up grudge match against Ossi Ketola. Dvoress and Liu’s rematch fits neatly into that run of storylines, giving the series another chapter that will be replayed on highlight reels long after the felt has been cleared in Jeju.
For players looking to understand the escalating stakes and formats on display at events like Triton, a refresher on poker hand rankings is a useful starting point before diving into how professionals navigate deep-stacked, high-roller final tables.
What Comes Next
With Jeju II still in progress through mid-September, Dvoress, Liu, Chidwick and the rest of the high-roller regulars are expected to keep battling across the remaining events on the schedule, including several more six and seven-figure buy-ins before the series wraps. For Dvoress, title number seven raises an obvious question heading into the back half of the series: how many more times can he add to a Triton legacy that already ranks among the best in the game’s short but explosive history.
