[Watch] Top six poker hands from Triton London

Triton London has served up many exciting stories this month, with fascinating battles, interesting characters and huge prizes on display. Amid all this, we have been treated to some real poker gems in terms of hands which showcase the talents of the players involved.

Here is our list of the six greatest moments from Triton London.

1 – An exciting Finnish

This hand takes place in the £25,000 NLH 6-Handed Turbo and involves famous Finn Patrik Antonius and Charlie Carrel. Just 28 of the 117 starters are still involved and the money bubble is not far away when Carrel decides to go to war with 8,4 off-suit against one of the best players in the world in a blind vs blind confrontation. The hand suddenly gets interesting on the river, leaving Antonius with a massive decision to make against an unusual line.

2 – Trickett trouble?

One of the most talked about hands in the

Triton £1,000,000

tournament comes in the early levels, with SamTrickett having already dropped to around half the starting stack. He finds himself three-handed on the flop against

Stephen Chidwick

and

Bryn Kenney

after opening with the best of it.

Chidwick

flops perfect before

Trickett

spikes the turn to get himself into a potentially fatal variety of trouble.

Kenney

then spices up the river, paving the way for an incredible twist.

3 – Ten-sion on the turn

This one starts innocuously enough with two players waking up with pocket tens in the

£1,000,000

tournament.

Al DeCarolis

calls the three-bet shove of short-stacked

Stanley Choi

and we are all set for a chop. The flop brings two hearts and a 5% freeroll for

DeCarolis

but

Choi

seems relaxed. It’s all good fun when the sweat hits the flop, after all, running suits are a hard thing to hit. Things always get a bit scarier when they catch that first runner though…

4 – Big by name, big by nature

Just 8 players are left standing in the

£1,000,000

event when this hand comes around. Professional player

Timothy Adams

opens, and quickly finds himself tangling with

“Big” Al DeCarolis

. The flop doesn’t exactly hit

Adams

hard and he tries to keep the bets small. In a perfect example of positional power however,

Big Al decides to formulate a big plan

.

5 – Vicious Vivek and Chidwick’s choice

With just 7 remaining in the

£1,000,000

event,

Vivek Rajkumar

has been busy putting his big stack to work. In this hand, he once again decides to apply some pressure, this time to

Stephen Chidwick

in the big blind. With a dangerous looking runout and some seriously ramped up pressure on the river,

Chidwick

is faced with a life or death decision for all his chips.

Will Rajkumar’s pressure be enough

to decide the hand?

6 – Welcome to the jungle

Triton London’s £100,000 Main Event

brought some truly fantastic poker to those watching, and no player was more responsible for that fact than

Daniel Cates.

In this hand,

Paul Phua

opts to see a flop after

Cates

opens for a raise. An ice-cold flop then sets the stage for some individual brilliance as the action intensifies by the river. There are several candidates for hand of the series at

Triton London

and this one is certainly among the leading contenders.

Article by Craig Bradshaw