The first-ever Triton ONE $8,000 Main Event wrapped at Landing Casino inside the five-star Jeju Shinhwa World resort, drawing 1,046 entries for a $7,607,558 prize pool. Former footballer Joshua Gebissa toppled Thai star Punnat Punsri heads up to claim $975,225, while Punsri secured $1,205,775 after a deal. It’s a breakout win for Gebissa, whose previous top live cash was $40,099, and who also cashed the $3,000 QQPK Genesis opener.
A landmark title for Gebissa
A defensive midfielder with Ethiopian roots who played in Germany’s lower divisions before retiring in 2019 at age 24, Gebissa booked his Main Event seat via title sponsor QQPK’s satellite program and received an exclusive $100,000 reward in tournament coins on the popular online poker app. Backed by a boisterous German-speaking rail, he navigated the debut of Triton’s new mid-stakes offshoot with poise, turning a deep run into a signature victory.
“The plan was to see how the table plays, how aggressive people are, if they’re more passive, and then adjust accordingly.”
“When you’re in-game, you’re really just so focused. I mean, for me especially, I’m not playing much live, so I have to count out the stacks all the time and really concentrate to get the numbers right and everything. So that kind of helps with the nerves.”
“Yesterday we already played a bit at the table. I didn’t know him personally before. This is my first-ever visit to Jeju, so usually I just see him on stream … So I realized he’s actually a very nice guy. He was really nice to play with. He’s kind of a legend of the game. Playing heads-up versus him for a big trophy, can’t get much better than this I think.”
Final day recap: from 16 to the trophy
Sixteen returned for the finale across two feature tables with a pay jump in play. Short stack Ming Juen Teoh doubled on the first hand, doubled again soon after, then scored the first knockout when his pocket sixes held against Takashi Yagura’s ace-king.
A lull gave way to a rapid-fire stretch of five eliminations down to ten. Weiran Pu fell when his ace-queen lost to Dajie Zhuo’s ace-seven, and Hongjun Zhao’s pocket tens were outdrawn by Ruogo Wen’s ace-king. Day 3 chip leader Yuefeng Pan bowed out in 13th after losing a flip to Daiki Shingae, before Wen busted Teoh and Chao Li in back-to-back hands to set the final-table bubble. Artur Martirosian and Punsri both doubled multiple times while in danger, and Punsri dispatched Michael Zhang to lock up the final nine.
The first deal of the final table was a crusher for Sergei Petrushevskii. He three-bet ace-king, made top pair/top kicker, and jammed the turn—only to run smack into Punsri’s slow-played pocket aces. Igor Yaroshevskyy exited next in a three-way pot, flopping trip eights but losing to Wen’s running jacks for a superior full house after burning through multiple time bank cards.
Fellow short stack Kaoru Kishimoto soon followed. In a Japan-vs-Japan clash, he defended king-nine and shoved a gutshot; Shingae called with ace-king, already ahead, and rivered an ace. Martirosian then surged with a five-bet shove (ace-king over Wen’s ace-jack) before mistiming a six-bet shove with ace-three suited—Punsri snapped with ace-king and seized the five-handed lead.
Punsri’s momentum continued by eliminating Zhuo, whose king-jack top pair in a three-way pot couldn’t fade Punsri’s ace-jack. Wen departed next, losing a preflop flip with king-queen suited to Shingae’s pocket sixes. Three-handed, Shingae pulled well ahead—three times Gebissa’s stack—before a pivotal bluff went wrong against Punsri, who found a correct hero call to take command. Gebissa then doubled through Shingae and ultimately busted him: Shingae’s pocket kings were cracked by Gebissa’s ace-queen when Broadway arrived on the river.
Heads-up: Punsri’s cushion, Gebissa’s climb
Punsri began heads-up with a comfortable lead, but momentum swung repeatedly. Gebissa scored two doubles and wrested away an overwhelming advantage. Though Punsri found back-to-back doubles when severely short, the comeback stalled, and Gebissa closed it out for the title.
Punsri’s pedigree and the road ahead
Runner-up Punsri, Thailand’s No. 1 on the all-time money list according to The Hendon Mob database, had already amassed more than $26.2 million in tournament cashes prior to this series, including four Triton Poker Super High Roller Series titles between 2022 and 2025—two of them this year in Jeju and Montenegro. During a three-handed break he was seen chatting with Jason Koon in a nearby Short Deck event, but this time the trophy eluded him. His $1,205,775 runner-up haul should bolster a busy schedule at the 2025 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju II over the next two weeks, with more than a dozen high-stakes events expected to draw many of the game’s biggest names.
Final table results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joshua Gebissa | Germany | $975,225* |
| 2 | Punnat Punsri | Thailand | $1,205,775* |
| 3 | Daiki Shingae | Japan | $573,000 |
| 4 | Ruogo Wen | China | $431,000 |
| 5 | Dajie Zhuo | China | $328,000 |
| 6 | Artur Martirosian | Russian Federation | $241,300 |
| 7 | Kaoru Kishimoto | Japan | $183,000 |
| 8 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | Ukraine | $130,558 |
| 9 | Sergei Petrushevskii | Russian Federation | $101,700 |
*Denotes deal of the final two players prior to the start of the heads-up
Event at a glance
| Event | Buy-in | Entries | Prize Pool | Venue | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triton ONE Jeju Main Event | $8,000 | 1,046 | $7,607,558 | Landing Casino, Jeju Shinhwa World | 2025 |
The inaugural Triton ONE stop in South Korea delivered huge fields and a marquee champion—an emphatic debut for the brand’s mid-stakes tour.
