Malaysian Takes Down Triton Poker Jeju $20,000 Event For $1,350,000 Payday

Malaysia’s Tuck Wai Foo outlasted a massive field of 348 entries in the $20,000 no-limit hold’em eight max event at the 2025 Triton Jeju festival, $1,350,000 as the champion. Prior to this triumph, Foo had yet to record a six-figure tournament score, let alone seven-figure victory.

Foo now has two titles to his name, having previously taken down a side event at last year’s Malaysia Poker Dream VIII festival for $92,427. That 15,000 Malaysian ringgit event (~$3,100 USD) had 136 entrants.

With this win, Foo now has more than $1.5 million in lifetime earnings to his name.

He also earned 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion, enough to move him into 18th place in the 2025 POY standings presented by Global Poker.

The sizable turnout for this event built a prize pool of $6,960,000, with the top 55 finishers earning a share of that haul. The final 11 all walked away with at least six-figure payouts, including bracelet winner Ben Heath (11th – $110,000). Other notables who ran deep but fell short of the final table included bracelet winner Roman Hrabec (17th), World Poker Tour champion Matas Cimbolas (15th), and bracelet winner Ethan ‘Rampage’ Yau (14th).

The first knockouts at the official final table came via a three-way all-in, with Calvin Lee’s A4 squaring off against the A10 of Jon Ander Vallinas and the 77 of Igor Yaroshevskyy. The board came down 876107 to give Yaroshevskyy quads and the double elimination. Lee earned $164,000 for his eighth-place showing, while Vallinas secured $227,000.

A MASSIVE spot for Igor Yaroshevskyy at the Triton $20K final table in Jeju! All-in with the best hand against two opponents, this hand could set the tone for the rest of the match! pic.twitter.com/P2HSWeiU8W

— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) February 28, 2025

Andrei Kotelnikov (6th – $305,000) also lost his last few blinds to Yaroshevskyy, who was in the middle of the pack after his knockout spree. Ren Lin soon followed, with his A-Q unable to hold against the A-4 of Yaroshevskyy, who had open shoved from the small blind. Lin called and was ahead until the board brought a four to turn the tables. Lin was awarded $396,000 as the fifth-place finisher, growing his career earnings to more than $15.5 million in the process.

CoinPoker ambassador Mario Mosbock lost a huge all-in with A8 against the A4 of four-time bracelet winner Michael Gathy early in four-handed play to be left with a single big blind.

Mosbock then mounted a furious comeback, with multiple double-ups leading to him overtaking the lead again ahead of the next elimination. As fate would have it, Gathy was the player who next hit the rail. He ran J-9 into the A-7 suited of Mosbock. A double-paired board saw ace high play to earn Mosbock the pot. Gathy settled for $501,000 as the fourth-place finisher. The Belgian now has nearly $5.6 million in lifetime cashes under his belt.

Mosbock’s resurgence continued thanks to his KK besting the J10 of Yaroshevskyy. Neither player connected with the paired runout and Yaroshevskyy was eliminated in third place ($619,000). The two-time Triton winner from Ukraine now has more than $11.2 million in career cashes.

Heads-up play began with Mosbock holding just over a 2:1 chip lead over Foo. Q-7 beat A-K to see that gap narrowed considerably. Then, a successful bluff for Foo helped propel him into the outright lead. Mosbock battled his way back in front, though, ahead of the key all-in of the match. He shoved with 44 from the button and Foo called off his last 13 big blinds with K2. The board came down AKJ67 and Foo made the nut flush to double into a roughly 6:1 lead.

The final hand saw Mosbock get all-in with K5 leading the 95 of Foo. Mosbock stayed ahead through the A1010 flop and the 3 turn, but the 9 on the end sent the pot and the title to Foo.

Mosbock earned $856,000 as the runner-up. The Austrian poker pro fell just short of his third Triton title, but grew his career earnings to nearly $15.9 million.

Final Table Results

Photo credits: Triton Poker.