Danny Tang Wins Triton Montenegro $100K Main Event, Completing 7-BB Comeback for $3.5 Million
Hong Kong's Danny Tang won the $100,000 NLH Main Event at the Triton Super High Roller Series (SHRS) Montenegro, capturing $3,522,000 and the sixth Triton title of his career. Held at the Maestral Resort & Casino in Budva, the Main Event drew 159 entries — including 64 re-entries — building a prize pool of $15,900,000. Tang completed a dramatic comeback, recovering from as few as seven big blinds at the final table before defeating Austria's Klemens Roiter heads-up.
A First Triton Title in Three Years: "Today, Redemption"
This victory carries special meaning for Tang. He returns to the Triton winner's circle for the first time since his extraordinary 2023 run, when he won five titles in nine months and secured the Ivan Leow Player of the Year award. Already a Triton Main Event champion in Short Deck, Tang now adds one of the biggest No Limit Hold'em victories of his career, along with a second Jacob & Co Epic X Skeleton timepiece. The win was also redemption for a defeat just days earlier in the same festival's $30K event, where he fell heads-up to fellow Triton ambassador Mario Mosböck. "It didn't go my way last time, but today, redemption," Tang said afterward, noting he had been far more tense in that earlier final.
A Bubble Call That Changed Everything
Tang's run nearly ended before the money. As the stone bubble approached, he faced a brutal river decision against chip leader Leon Sturm. Holding queen-ten for trip queens on a double-paired board, Tang tanked before calling Sturm's jack-eight bluff, doubling his stack in one of the tournament's defining moments. Shortly after, Thomas Boivin busted on the stone bubble when his pocket queens lost to Isaac Haxton's ace-king, sending the remaining players into the money and completely shifting Tang's momentum.
A Comeback Born from Seven Big Blinds
Tang carried the chip lead into the final table, but things grew complicated quickly. Malaysia's Wai Kiat Lee (9th) and Alex Kulev (8th) were the first two out, while China's Ye Wang steadily climbed. In one of the biggest pots of the final table, Wang shoved the river with ace-jack and Tang folded king-queen, suddenly dropping to just seven big blinds. "I thought I'd blown another chip lead, another good spot," Tang admitted, "but I got lucky, kept myself together, and kept fighting." He doubled through Sturm with ace-king against ace-queen, then doubled again through Roiter to climb back into contention.
83 BB to 16 BB: The Heads-Up Turnaround
Roiter took command late, winning a blind-versus-blind pot worth more than half the chips in play when his ace-king improved against Sturm's pocket queens, then eliminated Ye Wang in third to enter heads-up with an overwhelming lead — at one point holding 83 big blinds to Tang's 16. But Tang doubled with pocket sevens against king-seven, then again with ace-jack against ace-four, flipping the momentum entirely. "Even heads-up I was a huge dog. I told my friends I had no pressure," Tang said. "When I started to take the lead, I could feel it going very smooth." On the final hand, Tang's ace-jack held against Roiter's ace-seven to seal the title. Roiter collected $2,390,000 for second, while Ye Wang earned $1,636,000 for third.
"Triton Is in My Blood"
The win reaffirmed Tang's status as one of the tour's most recognizable champions. "Triton is in my blood, in my veins," he said afterward. "My career would not have been what it is without Mr. Paul and the whole Triton family. This is the best place to play poker in the world." Triton Montenegro 2026 continues through May 28, with the $100K PLO Main Event (from May 24) still ahead as a marquee back-end event. A Hong Kong player engineering a seven-big-blind comeback to win at the very top of the global super high roller scene stands as another reminder that Asian players can reach the summit even in the world's toughest high roller fields.
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