Poker news tagged with 'jason koon'

The year 2018 closes with Justin Bonomo sitting on the throne as the biggest winner in the world of tournament poker. Thanks to his incredibly successful run in 2018, he became the poker player with the most wins who earned over $25 million in 12 months, plus he was able to secure a spot in the Poker Hall of Fame 2026 (the year he reaches the age requirement).

Read more » Justin Bonomo is the Biggest Tournament Winner in 2018

Last week, Triton Poker released Episode 1 of their popular SHR Short Deck Cash Game in Jeju, South Korea, where Tom Dwan walked out after losing a huge pot worth $2.3 million to Paul Phua.

This week, fans can finally get to watch the continuation as Triton Poker released Episode 2. The cash game event is still held at the same venue (Landing Casino in Jeju, South Korea), and still playing with the 36-card Short Deck Poker.

Read more » Triton Poker Releases Episode 2 of SHR Short Deck Cash Game - Tom Dwan Gets Stacked Again

It was indeed an intense showdown, but in the end it was player "MysterioBrown" who stopped team partypoker tandem Isaac "Ike_Haxton" Haxton and Jason "Jason_Koon" Koon in their tracks and claimed the number 1 spot in the POWERFEST Event #112 Super High Roller: $10,300 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max Championship Event.

Read more » partypoker teammates Koon and Haxton denied PLO SHR Victory

The last event of the 2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro, HK$1,000,000 (US$127,000) buy-in Short Deck Ante-Only Event, attracted a field of 103 entries which created a massive prize pool of HKD96,902,400 (~$12,344,397)!

Read more » Jason Koon Wins Triton Poker Super High Roller for €3.5 Million

American poker pro Jason Koon is the latest player to join forces with partypoker and become a member of partypoker's new advisory panel, formed from a community of highly respected players.

Read more » Jason Koon Joins partypoker!

American poker pro Jason Koon has been running very good (both online and live) in the past 1,5 week. First, he took down PokerStars $1,000 Super Tuesday on February 24th, 2015, by outlasting a field of 591 entries for $111,699 in prize money.

Read more » Jason Koon Wins LAPC $50k High Roller ($436,344)