‘It Was Incredible’ – Mario Mosböck Outlasts Danny Tang in Triton Montenegro 2026 Event 3 Classic

Triton Montenegro 2026 has produced another moment for the history books. Mario Mosböck is a four-time champion on the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series , outlasting his friend and fellow Triton Ambassador Danny Tang in the first-ever all-ambassador heads-up in series history, banking $928,000 from a $3,990,000 prize pool.

#3 $30k -- NLH 8-Handed ($30,000)

Total Prize

$3,990,000

Entries

133

ITM

23

#	Payout	Player	SPI
1	$928,000	MM Mario Mosbock Austria	3,583.44
2	$628,000	DT Daniel Tang Hong Kong	2,533.87
3	$419,000	JI Javid Ismayilov Azerbaijan	2,068.90
4	$343,000	KF Kristen Foxen Canada	1,791.72
5	$275,000	PA Patrik Antonius Finland	1,602.56
6	$214,000	DV Danilo Velasevic Serbia	1,462.93
7	$158,000	MC Mehdi Chaoui Morocco	1,354.41
8	$116,000	AM Adrian Mateos Spain	1,266.94
9	$93,000	EP Eelis Parssinen Finland	1,194.48

Check the 23 Payouts & Results ...

A Historic Head-to-Head

The $30,000 NLH 8-Handed attracted 133 entries (including 44 re-entries), with 20 players surviving Day 1 under the lead of Patrik Antonius . The field collapsed to a final table of nine in just 90 minutes on Day 2 — but what followed was anything but quick. The final table lasted more than 10 hours, with the chip lead changing hands repeatedly and seemingly no hand going to script.

Mosböck and Tang had arrived at the final as the top two stacks, occupying the top two slots for much of the day. But Kristen Foxen and Javid Ismayilov , who finished fourth and third respectively, made sure nothing was straightforward. With an average stack of just 13 blinds when it finally ended, Mosböck sealed the deal, just four hands after needing to spike a four-outer just to survive.

The Final Table

Mosböck led the final table with 5,140,000 (64 BBs), just ahead of Tang on 4,385,000 (55 BBs). Foxen sat third with 3,960,000 (50 BBs), Ismayilov fourth on 3,775,000 (47 BBs), and Antonius fifth with 3,240,000 (41 BBs). Danilo Velasevic (2,380,000 / 30 BBs), Mehdi Chaoui (1,325,000 / 17 BBs), Adrian Mateos (1,265,000 / 16 BBs), and Eelis Parssinen (1,135,000 / 14 BBs) rounded out the nine.

The early pace was blistering. Ismayilov surged into the lead from the first hand, and Parssinen was the first to bust — his pocket jacks counterfeited on a running board that left Ismayilov’s ace playing. Mateos followed quickly in eighth, losing a flip with pocket fours to Tang’s ace-queen.

Chaoui, the youngest Triton champion in history after his landmark win in Jeju, bowed out in seventh when Mosböck’s flopped king-queen overtook his ace-high in a three-way pot. Velasevic, at his second final table of the series, ran ace-queen into king-four and couldn’t avoid the queen on the flop.

With five remaining, Antonius, who had led the field at bagging time, couldn’t find the hands to fight back and departed in fifth when his pocket eights ran into Ismayilov’s pocket tens. That left Foxen, Tang, Ismayilov and Mosböck in a swinging four-handed battle that lasted well into the evening.

Tang and Foxen exchanged crushing blows and doubles in back-to-back hands — Foxen showing a flopped king-six for a full house on a tripled board after Tang had refused to pay off the final bet, then doubling with tens through Tang’s ace-six to leave him with just six blinds.

Tang recovered with back-to-back doubles of his own, but Foxen’s tournament finally ended when Mosböck’s ace-ten held from the small blind against her king-seven. Foxen’s fourth-place finish for $343,000 moved her past Sosia Jiang to become the highest-earning female player in Triton Poker Series history.

A three-way cooler had briefly derailed Mosböck — his pocket tens losing to Foxen’s jacks in a pot where Ismayilov tripled up with an ace on the river — but Mosböck recovered his composure and retook the lead. Ismayilov ran his threes into Tang’s pocket aces in third place for $419,000.

A Heads-Up Classic

For the first time in Triton history, two Triton Ambassadors sat opposite each other with a trophy guaranteed to one of them. Tang had five titles to Mosböck’s three, and held a 31-to-23 blind advantage going in.

Tang surged early, winning six of the first seven hands including a backed-in flush that left Mosböck on just eight blinds. Mosböck shoved with king-three and, facing Tang’s king-nine, flopped threes to survive. What followed was a prolonged, technical duel that stretched through multiple blind levels; both players chipping away, taking turns at the lead, refusing to relinquish.

The pivotal hand came with the stacks almost level. Tang jammed from the small blind with king-five and Mosböck called with queen-jack. The king-two-ace flop and king turn left Mosböck needing a miracle, and the ten on the river completed his straight, sending almost everything to his side of the table.

Tang doubled twice with jacks and tens to extend the drama, but the final hand was a fitting close to a wild final. Tang’s queen-six flopped top pair against Mosböck’s pocket tens, but the nine on the turn and eight on the river filled Mosböck’s straight, ending it.

“It was incredible,” a relieved Mosböck said. “You’re on such a high during the play, and it’s hard to get the emotions out during the play, especially with so many crazy run-outs. I feel incredible.”

In just three years on the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series, the 30-year-old Austrian has risen to four titles, matching the haul of his friend and mentor Fedor Holz. Mosböck also paid tribute to Tang, who fell one short of becoming only the fourth player to claim a sixth Triton trophy: “I had an absolute blast playing against Danny, one of the best players to ever do it. He’s an absolute legend of a guy.”

All quotes and images courtesy of Triton Poker Series.