By Alex Drummond, Editor-in-Chief · May 30, 2026 · Fact-checked by Maya Chen
BUDVA, Montenegro - Mississauga's Daniel Dvoress became the first player in Triton Poker's ten-year history to win three titles at a single festival on Thursday, taking down the closing event of the 2026 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series, the US$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Turbo Bounty Quattro, in Budva for a top prize of US$367,500. The win, his third of a 16-event festival that had also delivered him the opening US$25,000 Golden Decade No-Limit Hold'em and the US$100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Main Event, took his haul for the trip to US$3,234,500, the single largest festival total of any Canadian on record at a high-roller series.
For Ontario, the result is a clean piece of provincial poker pride at a moment when the regulated home market is in the middle of its most consequential operational week of the year. While FanDuel Poker Ontario prepares for its June 3 launch and the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas moves through Day 4, one of the province's quietest superstars was running the table on the Adriatic.
The Three Wins
The festival's full run produced 16 events between the opening Golden Decade NLH and the closing PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro. Dvoress entered all three of his eventual victories in the bookend slots: first the opener, then the Pot-Limit Omaha Main Event in the back half of the schedule, and finally the closer.
The opening US$25,000 Golden Decade No-Limit Hold'em was a 146-entry event built around Triton's tenth-anniversary branding. It carried a US$3,650,000 prize pool, and Dvoress took it down for US$849,000.
The signature win was the US$100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Main Event in the back half of the schedule. The event drew 76 entries for a US$7,600,000 prize pool, and Dvoress collected US$2,018,000 for the title, the largest single cash of his career, alongside the prestige of taking down the discipline's marquee high-roller event for the year.
The closer was the US$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Turbo Bounty Quattro, a 46-entry event with a US$1,150,000 prize pool. Dvoress finished ahead of a final table that included Patrik Antonius in third, Joao Simao in fourth, and runner-up Lautaro Guerra in second. His total prize of US$367,500 included US$112,500 in bounties.
What Dvoress Said
The Mississauga player's reaction to the closing victory, captured in PokerNews coverage by Eliot Thomas and Yori Epskamp on Thursday, was characteristically restrained. "Right now, I have no words," he said. "The hours leading up to this, I was really running on fumes."
On the strategic question of whether his self-described comparative weakness at Pot-Limit Omaha would limit him at the highest level, his response was direct. "I do genuinely love this game," he said. "I think it's actually a more fun game than Hold'em. But I am absolutely 100 per cent less qualified at this game than I am at Hold'em." The understatement was, by Thursday evening, the strongest possible compliment any player at the festival could have paid the field he had defeated.
On the question of recovery time between events, he was equally plain. "After the Main, obviously, that was incredible, I got a bit of an adrenaline dump," Dvoress said. "That's when the grind of the past couple of weeks catches up with you. But then I was going, 'OK, two tournaments left, give it my all, find the energy somewhere.' And I guess I powered through."
The Ontario Backstory
Dvoress, born in Moscow on July 12, 1988, emigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eight. The family settled in the Greater Toronto Area and Dvoress has been listed in poker databases as a resident of Mississauga, Ontario, since he registered his first live tournament results in 2013. His early online career was conducted under the screen name Oxota, and he has spoken in past interviews about the underground Toronto cash games that gave him his earliest live experience before he transitioned to the professional high-roller circuit.
By Hendon Mob's reckoning, his live tournament earnings now sit above US$46 million, placing him near the very top of the Canadian all-time money list and inside the top fifty globally. He holds two World Series of Poker bracelets, from the COVID-era online series in 2020 and 2021, alongside a deep portfolio of Triton, Super High Roller Bowl and EPT high-roller results. The Triton trophy count after Thursday stands at six.
The Toronto poker circle Dvoress moves in is recognisable to anyone who follows the high-roller scene at this level. He has been a friend of fellow Toronto native Timothy Adams, who anchors the top of Canada's all-time money list, since the two played the early years of the European Poker Tour together. Adams was at Triton Montenegro this spring; he did not record a deep run.
The Festival's Other Headlines
The 2026 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro was the ten-year anniversary edition of the brand. It produced four eight-figure prize pools across its sixteen events and a number of headline results that will follow Dvoress into the summer narrative.
The US$200,000 No-Limit Hold'em Triton Invitational, the by-invitation marquee of the schedule, was won by Spain's Adrian Mateos for US$6,370,000 from a US$27,400,000 prize pool. The US$100,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event went to Hong Kong's Danny Tang for US$3,522,000 from a US$15,900,000 pool. The US$150,000 No-Limit Hold'em 10th Anniversary Special carried a US$11,400,000 prize pool and was taken down by Latvia's Aleksejs Ponakovs for US$3,027,000.
The most consistent multi-event performer in the field, aside from Dvoress, was Canada's own Mike Watson, who won two NLH turbos in the high-roller stretch of the schedule, taking the US$30,000 Turbo for US$659,000 and the US$50,000 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo Bounty Quattro for US$621,000. The two Canadian Super High Roller Series performances together represent roughly US$1.28 million in winnings, and they place Watson alongside Dvoress as the two most successful Canadians on the festival's leaderboard.
The Tax Footnote
One detail any Canadian player at this level navigates is the Canada-US tax treaty, which under Article XXII allows Canadian residents to recover the 30 per cent United States withholding tax on poker winnings, but requires filing a 1040-NR return the following spring and proving deductible expenses. Live winnings in Montenegro are not subject to US withholding because the United States is not the source jurisdiction. They are, however, taxable in Canada as professional income for any player whose primary occupation is poker, which by all available evidence is Dvoress's status.
That distinction matters for Ontario players evaluating any high-roller schedule. The European Triton stops, played in Montenegro, the Czech Republic, the Bahamas under the WPT-Triton partnership, and Cyprus under specific licence arrangements, have, in general, more favourable tax treatment for Canadian residents than equivalent US-based events. Dvoress has spoken publicly in the past about being "Vegas-averse" in part because of the tax burden, and the Montenegro result is the kind of festival that will keep more of his prize money in his hand than an equivalent run at the World Series would.
The Read for Ontario Players
Three takeaways from a Saturday morning on the Atlantic side of the Mediterranean. First, the strongest result of any Canadian poker player at any festival this calendar year now sits with an Ontario resident. Dvoress's US$3.234 million haul over 17 days at a single festival outpaces any single-festival result on the Canadian record book, by some distance. Second, the discipline he chose to dominate is Pot-Limit Omaha, which is increasingly the format that distinguishes the high-roller circuit from the broader live tournament economy; players who want to climb that ladder need to invest in PLO study. Third, the path Dvoress took to this level, which started in underground Toronto cash games and online play under a screen name before transitioning to live high-roller tournaments in his mid-twenties, remains an unusual but reproducible career structure for Ontario players willing to put in the volume.
The home regulated market has its own infrastructure for Ontario players wanting to build that volume legally. Pot-Limit Omaha is offered across all six regulated rooms, and the recreational and mid-stakes tables are the primary source of provincial PLO traffic. None of those tables prepares a player for a Triton Main Event final table on its own. But the discipline of consistent volume, the analytical tracking that HUD and tracking software supports, and the bankroll patience that the Ontario market enforces by limiting bonusing in local advertising, are the same disciplines Dvoress has spent fifteen years refining.
The Triton tour now moves to Cyprus for its next festival, which is scheduled for August. The World Series of Poker in Las Vegas runs through July 15, and Dvoress is widely expected to play a meaningful portion of the schedule, including the US$10,000 Main Event in early July. After Thursday, the question is no longer whether the Mississauga player will record a deep run somewhere this summer. It is which event he picks.