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TRITON POKER SERIES MONTENEGRO 2025 : Xuan Liu wins Event#1 $25,000 WPT Global Slam - $860,000
2025-05-15 - Fabien RICHARD
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Xuan Liu has just achieved a historic feat by becoming the first woman to win a Triton Poker Series trophy !

It was against her fellow countryman, High Roller expert Dan Dvoress, that champion Xuan Liu claimed her first Triton Poker Series trophy — and the first ever for a woman in the tour's history!

 

The best players in the world had to bow to Xuan's talent and elegance

 

 

It was an invisible barrier, a glass ceiling no one had yet broken. Since its inception, the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series has featured the greatest names in global poker. Legends, stars, masters of the game from all corners of the globe. But never, in 200 tournaments, had a single woman made it onto the winners list.

At the heart of the luxurious Maestral Resort & Casino in Montenegro, the curtain rose on the first stop of the new Triton season, and history was made in the very first act. Xuan Liu, a well-known Canadian player, won the $25,000 WPT Global Slam, overcoming a tough field of 155 entries.

Liu, ambassador for WPT Global, was playing her very first Triton tournament. A first attempt, a trial run… turned into a masterstroke. With $860,000 in her pocket and the prestigious Triton trophy in hand, she joins the exclusive club of women who have changed the game.

Even she couldn't believe it: “It's beyond anything I could have imagined. Poker is like that, a string of magical surprises,” she said, still emotional.

The task wasn't easy. Opposite her in the heads-up duel was Dan Dvoress, another Canadian, two-time Triton winner and a feared high-stakes player. Dvoress had a commanding lead at the start of the final duel and seemed headed for a third crown.

But Liu found the strength to turn the tide. Mentally strong, strategically sharp, she clawed back hand after hand until she toppled her prestigious opponent. Dvoress had to “settle” for $579,000 for second place.

“I never had the chip lead at the final table. Even in heads-up, I was far behind. But sometimes, being the underdog gives you a special kind of strength. When one door closes, another opens…” she said with a smile.

This tournament will also be remembered as a pivotal moment for women in elite poker. In addition to Liu, Kristen Foxen reached the final table (4th place), and Sosia Jiang finished in the money in a respectable 20th place.

Through this symbolic victory, a message of inspiration is sent to all female players around the world: yes, elite-level poker is accessible, yes, female performance can shine even on the most elite stages.

The organizers continue to fine-tune the structure: a new system has been introduced to avoid ultra-short-stacked final tables. From now on, blind levels can be rolled back if the finalists start with an average of fewer than 30 big blinds. A move to protect the game and preserve strategic intensity right to the end.

But today, what we’ll remember isn’t a technical change — it’s the moment when a female player changed history.

 

Final Table Results of Event #1 – $25,000 WPT Global Slam:

Xuan Liu – $860,000

Dan Dvoress – $579,000

David Peters – $398,000

Kristen Foxen – $325,000

Tom Fuchs – $259,000

Michael Watson – $199,000

Yu Zhang – $144,500

Paulius Plausinaitis – $105,000

Theodore Mc Quilkin – $86,500

 

All chip counts and live results on the Google Play app HERE or App Store HERE 

(Photo credit : tritonpokerseries.com)

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