Sixteen months after Xuan Liu beat him heads-up to become Triton’s first woman champion, Daniel Dvoress got the rematch — and this time there was no deja vu. The Canadian ran over the $30,000 NLH 8-Handed field at Triton Jeju II for $942,000 and his seventh Triton title, denying Liu a second.
- Daniel Dvoress won the $30,000 NLH 8-Handed at Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju II for $942,000 — his seventh Triton title.
- He beat Xuan Liu heads-up, the same opponent who beat him at Triton Montenegro in May 2025 to become Triton’s first female champion. Liu took $638,000.
- Dvoress led from the start and never gave the lead back: “I think I won every single all in.”
- Stephen Chidwick finished fifth for $279,000, closing on Bryn Kenney at the top of the all-time money list.
- Dvoress registered the $40,000 Mystery Bounty straight afterwards, chasing the Player of the Year race.
The Rematch Nobody Scripted
When Xuan Liu won at Triton Montenegro in May 2025 for $860,000, she did it by beating Daniel Dvoress heads-up — and became the first woman to win a Triton title in the process. At Jeju II, the two of them ended up last man and last woman standing in the $30,000 NLH 8-Handed all over again.
The difference was everything that came before. Dvoress started the final day with the chip lead and simply never handed it over, winning flip after flip and knocking players out at a pace that left Liu chasing from a long way back.
“I think I won every single all in. Or something close to that.”
Liu did try to summon the ghost of Montenegro. “You know, she really tried to make it a deja vu,” Dvoress said afterwards, “because she’s like, ‘Deja vu. Remember last time you did all the work?’” It did not take this time — though Dvoress was happy to call the ledger square: “But yeah, I guess we’re one-one though, so that’s fair.”
A Loaded Final Table
The eight-handed final was as tough as Triton finals get. Ben Tollerene was the first out, banking $118,000 in eighth, followed by Lun Loon and Jingyao Yan.
Stephen Chidwick’s fifth-place finish was worth $279,000 — another chunk of a career total that keeps nudging the Englishman closer to Bryn Kenney at the summit of poker’s all-time money list.
Taiwan’s Candy Lin went out in fourth in the hand that effectively sealed the tournament: her pocket nines ran into the king-eight suited of Dvoress and did not survive. Gytis Lazauninkas of Lithuania followed in third, and Dvoress carried an overwhelming stack into heads-up play against Liu.
$30,000 NLH 8-Handed Final Table Results
Player of the Year on His Mind
Dvoress was not shy about why the win mattered beyond the trophy. “The player of the year race is for sure important,” he said. “It’s obviously it’s a prestigious thing to win. And then it’s also quite a lot of money.”
He backed it up immediately: rather than celebrating, Dvoress went straight into the $40,000 Mystery Bounty to keep piling up points. Seven Triton titles in, the Canadian shows no sign of easing off.
