Jason Koon Doesn't Care What Game You're Dealing

Jason Koon's Triton résumé is absurd in No-Limit Hold'em — and now he's sitting on 3.43 million chips atop a $75K PLO final table, because apparently the game doesn't matter.

The 2026 Triton Montenegro $75K PLO 6-Handed event drew 59 entries. Eight players remain. Koon leads them all — by more than a million chips over second-place César García (2.32M), with Wai Leong Chan (1.895M) and Michael Watson (1.815M) rounding out the top four.

Here's my take: Jason Koon is the most format-agnostic player at the ultra-high-roller level, and nobody else is close.

Koon leads the final eight — by more than a million chips over César García — in a game most people don't even associate with his name.

The Argument

The high-roller ecosystem sorts players into lanes. You're a PLO specialist. You're a Short Deck savant. You're an NLH final-table machine. Koon refuses the sorting. He shows up to a $75K PLO six-max, a format that punishes tourists brutally, and stacks 3.43 million against a field of 59 — many of whom play Omaha as their primary game.

This isn't a recreational dabbling. This is a chip lead with eight remaining in one of the toughest PLO fields on the planet.

The counter-take writes itself: one final table doesn't prove format agnosticism; maybe he just ran good. Sure — and maybe the guy who keeps final-tabling across every variant Triton spreads is just the luckiest man in Montenegro. At some point, the pattern overwhelms the variance argument. Koon has earned his way to the last table in NLH Tritons repeatedly. Now he's doing it in PLO at a $75K buy-in. The sample keeps growing, and the conclusion keeps pointing the same direction.

Why It Matters

The modern high-roller field is deep with specialists. Four-card experts who crush PLO but flame out in Hold'em. NLH grinders who won't touch a PLO tournament above $10K. Koon treats the game selection dropdown like a menu at a restaurant where he's eaten everything and liked it all.

That versatility isn't just impressive — it's an edge. When you can profitably enter every event on a Triton schedule, your expected value per festival dwarfs the specialist's. You get more shots, more final tables, more leverage against fields that assume you're out of your depth.

Koon isn't out of his depth. He's 3.43 million chips deep at a final table that says so.