Bryn Kenney Extends All-Time Money List Lead With Fifth Triton Title

Bryn Kenney extended his lead atop poker’s tournament earnings leaderboard on Thursday morning.

The American poker pro took down the 2025 Triton Poker Jeju $50,000 no-limit hold’em bounty turbo event for $839,000. The victory brings his career tournament haul to nearly $76.8 million. It extends his lead on poker’s all-time money list, putting more than $7.3 million between him and Justin Bonomo, who sits second on the list.

In addition to the money, Kenney also secured his fifth Triton trophy with this win, putting him in a four-way tie for the second on the prestigious high-stakes tour’s all-time title leaderboard.

He joins the elite company of Phil Ivey, Mikita Badziakouski, and Danny Tang. All four players are five wins behind all-time Triton titles leader Jason Koon, who has 10 victories on the tour.

Just a day earlier, Kenney finished second in the $50,000 seven-max event for $1,897,430. He had the lead early in the heads-up match, but ultimately hit the rail as the runner-up to Mario Mosbock.

Kenney now has more than $47.4 million in recorded Triton earnings across 19 in-the-money finishes. Unsurprisingly, that accounts for the majority of his overall career haul.

To put that number in perspective, Kenney’s Triton winnings alone are enough to make him the 14th-highest-earning player in poker history, even if all of his other scores were excluded. He has cashed for more money in Triton events than Poker Hall of Famer Phil Ivey has accumulated throughout his tournament career ($47,308,301).

Kenney’s insane Triton earnings are thanks in large part to the record-setting $20,606,421 payout he secured via a heads-up deal in the 2019 Triton Millions Charity Invitational. He has four other multi-million-dollar scores on the tour, as well.

Needless to say, that puts Kenney as Triton Poker’s clear money leader, with Koon’s $29.2 million being the next-highest total.

This win also came with plenty of rankings points for Kenney. The 918 Card Player Player of the Year points he earned as the champion, combined with the 1,275 from his runner-up showing a day earlier, are enough to place him seventh in the 2025 POY standings presented by Global Poker.

This fast-paced affair took a single day to play out inside Landing Casino Jeju. The event drew 95 entries and the top 15 finishers earned a share of the prize pool. there was $4.7 million in the total prize pool with $1.44 million set aside for bounties.

Kenney entered the final nine with the second-largest stack, trailing only Spain’s Jon Ander Vallinas. Several big names hit the rail in the early going, such as Chance Kornuth (9th – $84,700), Stephen Chidwick (8th – $115,500), and 10-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (7th – $151,500).

Bracelet winner Leon Sturm (6th – $192,300) lost the majority of his stack with pocket queens against the A-K of Michael Soyza. The rest went to Kenney, who picked up A-K suited against Sturm’s Q-9 to collect his last big blind.

Brandon Wilson earned $246,000 as the fifth-place finisher when his A-8 ran into the A-J of Yang Chongxian. This was Wilson’s third final-table finish of the series, and seventh already on the year. With 3,000 POY points, Wilson is now the second-ranked player on the leaderboard.

Soyza was the next to fall, with his pocket sevens losing a preflop race against the A-J of a surging Kenney. The two-time Triton winner hit the rail with $307,000 for his efforts.

Yang’s lost handful of blinds went in with 9-8 facing 10-2 for Kenney. Neither player improved and Kenney’s high card played to earn him another knockout. Yang cashed for $378,000 as the third-place finisher.

That left Kenney heads-up with Vallinas. It took just one hand for Kenney to convert his lead into the title. He raised with KQ and called off when Vallinas shoved with 97. Kenney paired his queen and held from there to bring the fast-paced event to an end. Vallinas earned $577,000 as the runner-up. This was his fourth cash of the series, including a seventh-place finish in the $20,000 buy-in event and a ninth-place showing in the $25,000 WPT Global Slam tournament.

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