Benedek Farkas Rallies From 15:1 Deficit to Win Triton ONE North Cyprus Title
Farkas turned a seven-big-blind heads-up stack into a $572,000 breakthrough in the $10,000 seven-max event.
- Benedek Farkas won the $10,000 seven-max event for $572,000 after overcoming a 15:1 heads-up deficit.
- Dmitrii Kukhtarev began heads-up with 60.75 million chips to Farkas’s 4.05 million but finished second for $362,000.
- Farkas took the lead by picking off a bluff and clinched the title with a turned straight.
- The score was Farkas’s first six-figure live payout and raised his recorded cashes above $782,000.
Benedek Farkas erased a 15:1 heads-up chip deficit to win the $10,000 no-limit hold’em seven-max title at Triton ONE North Cyprus. He beat Dmitrii Kukhtarev in a 324-entry field and collected $572,000, his first six-figure live-tournament payout.
Kukhtarev began the final table with the lead, while Farkas was third among the seven remaining players. By three-handed play, Kukhtarev had more than three times the chips of his nearest rival; Igor Provkin then exited third for about $261,000 after his pocket fours lost a flip against ace-ten.
According to Card Player, Kukhtarev took 60.75 million chips into heads-up against Farkas’s 4.05 million. Farkas won most of the early pots, then made eights full of queens against Kukhtarev’s trip eights to cut further into the lead. He subsequently picked off a bluff to move ahead and built his advantage to about 5:1.
The final hand began with Kukhtarev limping 10♠7♣ and Farkas checking 5♦4♥. The 7♥5♠3♣ flop gave both players a pair, but the 6♦ turn completed Farkas’s straight and locked up the pot. Kukhtarev improved to two pair on the 10♣ river, called Farkas’s all-in bet, and finished runner-up for $362,000.
Farkas said he had an idea of how Kukhtarev played and called the match “a battle.” He said he needed luck when the stacks were 100 big blinds to seven, but believed he played well once the two were even.
The victory lifted Farkas’s recorded live cashes to more than $782,000. His previous largest payout had been $52,238 for second place in a €5,000 PokerStars Open Cannes event in 2025. The result also supplied 1,200 Card Player Player of the Year points, his first qualifying score in that race this year.
It followed Alin Ivan’s victory in the series-opening $3,000 QQPK Genesis event, as we reported Nov. 8.
