Nick Schulman has won the Triton Jeju II $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event for a career-best $3,854,888. The American defeated Austria’s Bernhard Binder after a heads-up deal, adding a second Triton title to his eight WSOP bracelets.
A Career-Best Win in Jeju
The $100,000 Main Event attracted 196 entries and built a $19.6 million prize pool at Landing Casino. Schulman’s score is the largest live tournament cash of his career, but it came only two days after his runner-up finish to Matthew Wantman in the $50,000 NLH Turbo Bounty for $810,279.
That short turnaround turned a strong stop into a heater worth nearly $4.7 million across two results. It also underlined a familiar part of Schulman’s game: he can move between mixed games, short deck and elite no-limit fields without looking as if somebody has dealt him the wrong rulebook.
How Schulman Took Control of the Final Table
Schulman began the nine-handed final table fifth in chips with 43 big blinds, while Binder arrived as the short stack with 10. Binder rebuilt patiently and survived to heads-up, but Schulman did the heavier lifting late as the payouts moved into seven figures.
Pocket Tens Change the Three-Handed Battle
The key three-handed pot came when Gytis Lazauninkas ran pocket eights into Schulman’s pocket tens. The bigger pair held, sending Lazauninkas out in third for $1,968,000 and giving Schulman a commanding lead for the final duel.
Schulman held 62 big blinds to Binder’s 20 when heads-up play began. With such a steep pay jump and plenty of money already on the table, the pair agreed an ICM deal rather than turning the last stage into a spreadsheet with hole cards.
The Deal and the Final Push
The agreement locked up $3,714,888 for Schulman and $3,080,112 for Binder, leaving $140,000 and the Triton trophy to play for. Binder found no clean route back into the contest as Schulman kept applying pressure and picking up the pots that mattered.
Schulman first made river trips with ten-three, then extended his lead with queen-deuce and another queen-high holding. Pocket kings brought the final value, and the title was sealed with Schulman still holding the overwhelming share of the chips.
Triton Jeju II Main Event Results
The top ten finishers all earned at least $359,000, with six players collecting seven-figure prizes. The final table also featured Isaac Haxton, Wesley Fei and Danny Tang, so there were no soft seats waiting to be discovered.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nick Schulman | $3,854,888 |
| 2 | Bernhard Binder | $3,080,112 |
| 3 | Gytis Lazauninkas | $1,968,000 |
| 4 | Xu Yang | $1,596,000 |
| 5 | Ryuta Nakai | $1,263,000 |
| 6 | Isaac Haxton | $958,000 |
| 7 | Danilo Velasevic | $700,000 |
| 8 | Wesley Fei | $512,000 |
| 9 | Roberto Perez | $424,000 |
| 10 | Danny Tang | $359,000 |
Binder’s runner-up prize is still the biggest score of his career, while Lazauninkas also banked a career high in third. For Schulman, however, the result lands differently because it combines the biggest payday with the flagship title at one of poker’s toughest high-stakes stops.
A Second Triton Title, Eight Years After the First
Schulman’s first Triton victory came in a short-deck event in Jeju in 2018, in the same casino that hosted this week’s Main Event. Eight years later, he returned to the winner’s circle in poker’s most widely played format and did it against a field packed with regulars who know every squeeze, cold four-bet and blind-versus-blind scrap in the book.
The win also adds another chapter to a career that now includes eight WSOP bracelets and more than $31.7 million in recorded live earnings. Away from tournament tables, Schulman has continued his broadcasting and radio work, but his recent form suggests the microphone has not dulled the edge of his own game.
Schulman Applies Pressure to the 2026 Player of the Year Race
The Jeju victory was Schulman’s third title and 13th final table of 2026. Card Player’s latest standings put him on 7,556 points, just 58 ahead of Punnat Punsri, after more than $6.2 million in qualifying earnings this year.
There is also the wider Triton picture. Jeju II has already produced major wins for Joao Simao in the Invitational and Ben Tollerene in the late-night turbo, but taking down the $100,000 Main Event is the result every no-limit player in the room wanted.
Schulman called the victory “pretty unbelievable” after the final hand, a fair summary after two deep runs in the space of 48 hours. For Binder, the consolation is a career-best $3.08 million score; for Schulman, it is another trophy, a new personal best and a stack of fresh evidence that his 2026 heater is very much alive.
