Pedro Padilha Wins Triton Jeju $50K Title
The Brazilian beat Nick Petrangelo heads-up for his first Triton trophy, with reporting splitting on the final payday.
Pedro Padilha won the $50,000 eight-max no-limit hold’em event at Triton Jeju for his first Triton trophy. CardPlayer put the top prize at $1,400,860, and the win earned 1,122 Card Player Player of the Year points.
He beat a 129-entry field to get there. Only the top 20 finishers shared the $6,449,998 prize pool, and the bubble burst when Ren Lin went out in 21st. Padilha started the final table third in chips behind Aliaksei Boika and Nick Petrangelo.
As covered in our earlier Jeju updates, Triton had already returned to South Korea for a second 2026 festival. The final table quickly lost some of the biggest names, with Eelis Parssinen taking eighth for $200,000, Phil Ivey seventh for $271,000 after his pocket nines ran into Petrangelo’s pocket jacks, and Wai Kiat Lee sixth for $361,000.
Yang Wang fell in fifth when Padilha’s A♦8♠ held against A♣6♣, Aren Bezhanyan was fourth for $574,000, and Boika bowed out in third when his A♦9♠ could not catch Padilha’s A♣K♠. Padilha then entered heads-up play with about a 2:1 chip lead over Petrangelo.
The reporting on the exact endgame payout differed. CardPlayer said Padilha and Petrangelo struck a heads-up deal that locked up $1,350,860 and $1,201,140 respectively, leaving the title and $50,000 to play for, while PokerNews’ daily highlights described an ICM deal with around $200,000 extra in play and later said Padilha banked $1,548,000.
Padilha closed it out when his Q♣8♠ paired the eight on A♦9♥4♥8♣3♥ to beat Petrangelo’s K♠4♠. He told Triton media it was the best feeling and said he had spent recent years trying to expand beyond live poker in Brazil and South America.
The win was Padilha’s second-largest score, behind only his $3,160,000 runner-up finish in the World Series of Poker Paradise Triton $100,000 buy-in last December. He also won an EPT Monte Carlo €25,000 high roller in May for just shy of $1.3 million, has more than $8.8 million in recorded cashes, sits third on Brazil’s all-time money list behind Joao Simao and Yuri Dzivielevski, and became the fourth Brazilian Triton champion, joining Simao, Alisson Piekazewicz and Pedro Garagnani.
