Danny Tang Wins Triton Poker Ivan Leow Player of the Year Award

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Danny Tang has won Triton Poker’s Season 3 Ivan Leow Player of the Year race, finishing with 3,700 points. The 32-year-old Hong Kong resident cashed 19 times across the four Triton Poker Super High Roller Series festivals that comprised the season, accumulating over $10.1 million in prize money across those scores. Tang’s qualified cashes included 13 final-table finishes and two title runs.

Tang’s wins during season 3 saw him take down a $60,000 eight-max event in London for $1.6 million and a $50,000 eight-max event in Monte Carlo for another $1,580,000. Those accounted for two of his four qualified seven-figure scores.

Tang is now a five-time Triton title winner, putting him in a three-way tie for second on the tour’s titles leaderboard with Mikita Badziakouski and Phil Ivey. Jason Koon, who won the POY honors in season 2, remains alone atop that list with 10 Triton wins.

For the win, Tang was awarded $200,000 and a brand new trophy, which was designed and handmade by London silversmiths Fox Silver. This POY race is named in honor of the late Ivan Leow, who sadly passed away in the fall of 2022. Leow was reportedly instrumental in Triton getting off the ground as a founding member of the tour alongside Richard Yong and Paul Phua.

“Ivan was a tremendous poker player and an even better friend to everyone at Triton,” said Phua at Tang’s trophy ceremony. “Not a day goes by when we don’t think about him, and it was important for us to be able to remember him with such a prestigious award.”

“I have to give it to Ivan looking down on us and giving me his blessing. It means a lot because I am one of his own guys,” said Tang after receiving the trophy. “For me this is the most prestigious award that can be won in poker right now.”

Here is a look at Tang’s 19 cashes from Season 3:

Date Event Buy-In Place Payout
May 26, ’24 $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
2024 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro
$50,000 7 $146,000
May 25, ’24 $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
2024 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro
$100,000 6 $495,000
May 19, ’24 $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2024 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro
$100,000 5 $752,000
May 18, ’24 $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2024 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro
$50,000 15 $119,200
May 16, ’24 $40,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Bounty Seven Max
2024 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro
$40,000 7 $114,000
May 14, ’24 $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2024 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro
$25,000 6 $180,500
Mar 18, ’24 $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Six Max
2024 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju
$50,000 10 $92,500
Mar 14, ’24 $150,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2024 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju
$150,000 11 $351,000
Mar 07, ’24 $20,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2024 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju
$20,000 11 $78,700
Nov 04, ’23 $52,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo
$50,000 2 $664,000
Nov 03, ’23 $31,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty
2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo
$30,000 3 $178,000
Nov 01, ’23 $53,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo
$50,000 1 $1,580,000
Oct 29, ’23 $106,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo
$100,000 3 $1,296,000
Oct 26, ’23 $210,000 No-Limit Hold’em Invitational
2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo
$200,000 6 $875,000
Aug 10, ’23 $26,500 No-Limit Short Deck Hold’em
2023 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London
$26,500 2 $193,800
Aug 08, ’23 $63,600 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2023 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London
$63,600 1 $1,600,000
Aug 02, ’23 $212,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2023 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London
$212,000 5 $1,247,000
Jul 31, ’23 $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Max
2023 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London
$50,000 9 $134,000
Jul 28, ’23 $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em GG Million$ Live
2023 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London
$25,000 21 $44,500

Photo credit: Triton Poker / Drew Amato.

 

 

 





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