Nick Schulman Wins Triton Jeju II US$100,000 Main Event for US$3.85 Million

The Final Table

winnerBiggest career cash

Prize

US$3,854,888

Event

$100k - NLH Main Event

Field

196 entries

Prize pool

US$19,600,000

Source: Asia Poker Hub data (PEL)

Super High Roller Series Jeju II S5, US$100,000 NLH Main Event final table

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Super High Roller Series Jeju II S5, US$100,000 NLH Main Event final table

Place	Player	Country	Prize (US$)
1	Nick Schulman	United States	US$3,854,888
2	Bernhard Binder	Austria	US$3,080,112
3	Gytis Lazauninkas	Lithuania	US$1,968,000
4	Xu Yang	China	US$1,596,000
5	Ryuta Nakai	Japan	US$1,263,000
6	Isaac Haxton	United States	US$958,000
7	Danilo Velasevic	Serbia	US$700,000
8	Wesley Fei	China	US$512,000
9	Roberto Perez	Spain	US$424,000

Schulman closed out the event with pocket kings. Austria's Bernhard Binder took US$3,080,112 for second and Lithuania's Gytis Lazauninkas US$1,968,000 for third. The top five all won more than US$1 million, and the final nine came from seven countries, among them China, Japan and Spain.

The Field

The Main Event began on September 14 and finished two days later. There was no guarantee: the 196 entries at US$100,000 each built the US$19.6 million pool on their own. Only 32 places were paid, so a min-cash was a rare result. Players from the United States and China took seven of those cashes each, and Austria four.

The Winner

Schulman had already come close earlier in the same series, finishing second in a US$50,000 NLH 7-Handed event for about US$810,300. That was his best result in our data until the Main Event paid almost five times as much. This third recorded title lifts his live earnings tracked by Asia Poker Hub since 2024 from about US$2.87 million to about US$6.73 million.

The Festival

The Main Event was not the richest tournament of the series. The US$200,000 Triton Invitational paid US$7.25 million to Brazil's Joao Simao. The series ran 14 events in all, and the next Triton stops are on the Triton Poker Series schedule.