Jason Koon's $4.4M Freeroll in Montenegro

Fifty-nine entries in a $75,000 PLO tournament means the prize pool is roughly $4.4 million — and Jason Koon is chip-leading the final eight like he's collecting rent.

Koon sits on 3,430,000 chips at the 2026 Triton Montenegro $75K PLO 6-Handed final table. Second place, César García of Spain, has 2,320,000. The gap is wide. The field is thin. And that's the whole story.

Fifty-nine entries in a $75,000 PLO tournament means the prize pool is roughly $4.4 million — and Jason Koon is chip-leading the final eight like he's collecting rent.

The Math Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud

Fifty-nine entries. At a $75K buy-in. That's not a poker tournament in any meaningful statistical sense — it's a sit-and-go with a luxury tax. When your field is that small and the buy-in is that large, the ratio of volume pros to recreational money tilts the entire expected-value equation. Koon has played more Triton final tables than most of these 59 entrants have played Triton events, period. He's not outrunning variance here. He's barely encountering it.

PLO compounds the problem. In No-Limit Hold'em, a recreational player can nit up, wait for aces, and occasionally get lucky against the best in the world. PLO doesn't offer that shelter. The edge a high-volume PLO specialist holds over a part-timer is enormous — and it compounds across every single pot in a way that Hold'em edges simply don't.

So when Koon sits down in a 59-player PLO field at $75K, the question isn't whether he's a favorite. It's how large his ROI is before the cards are even in the air.

The Counter-Argument, Briefly

You'll hear that the remaining seven players earned their seats by surviving the same field — that this final table is self-selecting for quality. Fair point. Wai Leong Chan (1,895,000 chips) and Michael Watson (1,815,000) are not tourists. But the structural advantage doesn't disappear at the final table. It intensifies. Koon has been in this exact spot — chip lead, short-handed, seven-figure prize pool, Triton branding on the felt — more times than anyone in the game. Familiarity with the situation is the edge at this stack depth.

What This Actually Means

Triton's ultra-high-roller PLO events are functionally subsidized paydays for the five or six players in the world who play every single one of them. The buy-in scares off the grinders who would flatten the edge. The format rewards the specialist. And a 59-entry field means you only have to beat 58 people — several of whom are playing their first PLO tournament above $10K.

I'm not saying Koon is guaranteed to win. PLO is PLO. But if you offered me 59-runner $75K PLO fields with this composition every month for a year, I'd mortgage the house to stake him.

The freeroll isn't literal. But it's closer to one than anyone on the Triton livestream will admit.