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

Jason Koon leads the $75K PLO final table at Triton Montenegro with 3.43 million chips — and nobody at his table has a Triton résumé within shouting distance of his.

This isn't No-Limit Hold'em. This is Pot-Limit Omaha, six-handed, $75K buy-in, 59 entries. And Koon is sitting on a stack that's 1.11 million ahead of second place.

Koon is sitting on a stack that's 1.11 million ahead of second place.

The Field Behind Him

César García of Spain sits second with 2.32 million. Malaysia's Wai Leong Chan holds 1.895 million. Canada's Michael Watson has 1.815 million. Eight players remain.

These are serious players in a serious buy-in. But none of them are Jason Koon — the guy who has turned Triton final tables into a standing appointment. His career history on this circuit is so deep that calling him "a regular" undersells it. He's the house.

The counter-argument is that PLO is a high-variance game and chip leads at eight-handed mean less than they do in NLH. Sure. Variance exists. But variance doesn't explain why the same person keeps ending up at these final tables across formats, across continents, across years. At some point the sample is the signal.

Why This One Matters

What makes this final table different isn't Koon's stack. It's the game selection. Most of Koon's Triton dominance has come in NLH and short deck. PLO is a different animal — wider ranges, more multi-way action, thinner edges that compound over streets in ways that punish even slight miscalibrations.

Koon chip-leading a PLO final table at this level says something about floor-to-ceiling versatility that a hundred NLH results can't. The field he's dominating paid $75K to sit down. Fifty-nine entries means just under $4.5 million in the prize pool. And Koon has the largest share of the chips in play.

I'm not saying he ships it. PLO eight-handed can turn fast. But I am saying this: if you're building a list of the most complete tournament players on the planet right now, Koon just added another data point that nobody else at this final table can match.