Triton Adds $1 Million Duel Tournament to North Cyprus Schedule

Triton Poker has added a new tournament to the upcoming Super High Roller Series North Cyprus schedule. The Duel Heads-Up Tournament, announced on Friday, November 13, is a heads-up no-limit hold'em event with a $1,000,000 buy-in. According to the organizers, this is the highest buy-in heads-up no-limit hold'em shootout tournament ever held.

Matchups will be determined by random draw. In each match, the first player to win two games advances to the next round. The tournament will take place at Merit Royal Diamond Casino & Resort from November 25 to 27. The rest of the festival has 16 events scheduled between November 15 and 30, with buy-ins ranging from $25,000 to $200,000.

Playing all 17 tournaments on the schedule once now totals $2,045,000. This will be the first seven-figure dollar buy-in added to a Triton stop since the 1,050,000 pound Triton Million played in the 2019 London stop. The same London tournament featured the largest buy-in in history, $1,321,950, and the largest single payout, $20,606,421, was paid to runner-up Bryn Kenney through a heads-up deal.

In recent years, many cash games and heads-up tournaments run by Triton have also had buy-ins exceeding $1 million. Ossi Ketola's large heads-up matches against various high-stakes stars are one example of this.