Richard Gryko Denies Koon Number 13 as Dan Dvoress Makes Triton History

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Updated: 2026.05.29

The final night of Triton Montenegro 2026 delivered two more champions. Richard Gryko denied Jason Koon a record-extending 13th Triton title to win Triton Montenegro 2026 Event 17: $75,000 PLO 6-Handed for $1,243,000, while Dan Dvoress made Triton Poker history by becoming the first player to win three titles at a single stop, taking down Event 18: $25,000 PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro for $367,500.

Event 17: Gryko Denies Koon Number 13

The $75,000 PLO 6-Handed drew 59 entries (including 31 re-entries), generating a $4,425,000 prize pool. A year and a day since claiming his first Triton title on the same stage at the Maestral Resort, Gryko returned to the top of the podium — this time from a bigger tournament and with a bigger payday.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Richard Gryko	United Kingdom	$1,243,000
2nd	Jason Koon	United States	$879,000
3rd	Cesar Garcia	Spain	$593,000
4th	Mike Watson	Canada	$448,000
5th	Martin Dam	Denmark	$354,000
6th	Chan Wai Leong	Malaysia	$274,000
7th	Ben Tollerene	United States	$191,500*
8th	Espen Myrmo	Norway	$191,500*
9th	Punnat Punsri	Thailand	$136,000
10th	Patrik Antonius	Finland	$115,000

* Eliminated on the same hand — seventh and eighth-place prize money split

The bubble was long and tortuous, with nine short-stack doubles during hand-for-hand play. Koon, moved to Gryko’s direct left midway through, proved a particularly awkward neighbour — including one highlight-reel hand in which he bluffed Gryko off a full house. But Gryko held on and both made the six-handed final.

Event 17 Final Table_ — The final table (clockwise from back left): Richard Gryko, Jason Koon, Mike Watson, Chan Wai Leong, Cesar Garcia, Martin Dam.

Koon led with 3,430,000 (69 BBs), Cesar Garcia second on 2,320,000 (46 BBs), Chan Wai Leong third with 1,895,000 (38 BBs). Mike Watson had 1,815,000 (36 BBs), Gryko 1,280,000 (26 BBs), and Martin Dam 1,060,000 (21 BBs).

Chan Wai Leong, who had doubled twice on the bubble, ran king-king-ten-eight into Watson’s ace-ace-queen-queen on the first significant final table pot — out in sixth for $274,000. Dam lost a crucial flip to Garcia in fifth ($354,000) when Garcia’s two-pair improved on the turn and river. Watson tripled his stack briefly with ace-king-jack-five but then ran aces into Koon’s king-jack-five-suited board — out in fourth for $448,000.

Three-handed, Koon held 62 blinds to Gryko’s 40 and Garcia’s 16. Garcia made it through one more orbit before Koon’s turned flush with ace-king-jack-three beat Garcia’s rivered straight — third place, $593,000.

Heads-up, Koon held a 3:1 blind advantage. Gryko levelled things quickly: a limp-three-bet pre-flop and a check-jam on a nine-seven-ten-two board put him in front and he never looked back. The final hand saw Koon shove top two pair with ace-ten-three-two on an ace-ten-five flop, only to find Gryko’s jack-nine-five-five had him crushed with a set. The board bricked and it was over.

“I just sort of ducked and weaved and had some good fortune until heads-up,” Gryko said. “And then heads-up I kind of got hit in the face by the deck and then it was over quite quickly.”

Koon remains on 12 titles with $879,000. For Gryko, a second trophy in 366 days.

Event 18: Dvoress Makes History

Dan Dvoress

The $25,000 PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro drew 46 entries (including 22 re-entries), generating a $1,150,000 prize pool. No player in Triton Poker’s 10-year history had ever won three titles at the same stop. Dvoress already had two.

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Dan Dvoress	Canada	$367,500*
2nd	Lautaro Guerra	Spain	$234,000*
3rd	Patrik Antonius	Finland	$231,500*
4th	Joao Simao	Brazil	$115,000*
5th	Sean Rafael	United States	$70,000
6th	Manuel Stojanovic	Austria	$54,500
7th	Wang Ye	China	$43,500
8th	Robert Cowen	United Kingdom	$34,000

* Includes bounty winnings

Lautaro Guerra led the seven-handed final with 2,805,000 (56 BBs), Dvoress second on 2,220,000 (44 BBs). Patrik Antonius had 1,410,000 (28 BBs), Joao Simao 1,145,000 (23 BBs), Manuel Stojanovic 705,000 (14 BBs), Sean Rafael 580,000 (12 BBs), and Wang Ye 340,000 (7 BBs).

Wang Ye and Stojanovic were eliminated simultaneously in seventh and sixth when Antonius’s ace-king-queen-four made a full house on a queen-three-queen board — $43,500 and $54,500 respectively. Rafael blinded to almost nothing before departing in fifth ($70,000), Antonius collecting the bounty.

Dvoress lost a monster five-bet pot — kings versus Guerra’s aces — that dropped him to the foot of the counts, but recovered to bust Simao in fourth when his ace-king-ten-two beat Simao’s king-queen-nine-eight all-in pre-flop ($115,000). Three-handed, Guerra led with 39 blinds, Antonius and Dvoress level on 27.

Dvoress flopped a set of jacks to double through Guerra all-in pre-flop, then Antonius went into a spiral and was eventually eliminated by Dvoress in third ($231,500, including $112,500 in bounties) when Dvoress made a flush.

Heads-up, Dvoress held 27 blinds to Guerra’s 19. It ended on one hand — Dvoress’s king-king-six-six held against Guerra’s ace-jack-ten-seven, the bounty going to Dvoress too.

“Right now, I have no words,” Dvoress said. “The hours leading up to this I was really running on fumes… But that’s when I was going, ‘OK, two tournaments left, give it my all, find the energy somewhere.’ And I guess I powered through.”

Guerra took $234,000 for second. Triton Poker heads to Jeju in September.

All quotes and images courtesy of Triton Poker Series.