Champion Dan Dvoress!

The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series' latest trip to Montenegro had one last surprise on its final night as Dan Dvoress became the first player in the tour's 10-year history to win a third title at the same stop.

Dvoress set the ball rolling on this festival when he won the opening event, and tonight he bookended a spectacular two weeks on the Adriatic when he won the closing $25K PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro as well.

When you add in the $100K PLO Main Event too, this is a new and sensational mark for one of tournament poker's most reliable superstars.

"Right now, I have no words," a plainly exhausted Dvoress said at the end of another long but richly successful grind. "The hours leading up to this I was really running on fumes. After the Main — obviously that was incredible — I got a bit of an adrenaline dump. And that's when the grind of the past couple of weeks catches up with you. But that's when I was going, 'OK, two tournaments left, give it my all, find the energy somewhere.' And I guess I powered through."

Dan Dvoress found the en

The latest win earned Dvoress $367,500, including $112,500 in bounties, but it's the significance of the win that will surely come to mean even more. There have been near misses in the past, and other tremendous, sustained performances through stops on the Triton Poker Series. But the level of composure and consistency to win three events as Dvoress now has is unique.

"I do genuinely love this game," Dvoress said, referring to PLO in particular, the format in which he won his two most recent titles. "I think it's actually a more fun game than hold'em. But I am absolutely 100% less qualified at this game than I am at hold'em."

His results might speak otherwise, but it perhaps only serves to show how accomplished he is at all disciplines.

Lautaro Guerra congratulates Dvoress on his moment of history

Tonight Dvoress beat PLO specialist Lautora Guerra into second, with Hall of Famer Patrik Antonius third. It brought down the curtain on a tremendous time in Montenegro, with Dvoress the star attraction once again.

TOURNAMENT ACTION

The $25K PLO Bounty Quattro is now the customary closer at a Triton Poker festival, and this time there were 24 players left in town to put 46 entries across the registration desk. That meant $1.15 million to scrap over as the packing crates came out elsewhere.

After Ding Biao's elimination burst the bubble in ninth, the defending champion Robert Cowen was knocked out in eighth to set the official final table.

Lautaro Guerra, another player with history in PLO Bounty Quattro tournaments, led the way, but most eyes were on Dan Dvoress, attempting to make Triton Poker history. No player has ever won three titles at a single Triton stop, but with two under his belt already, Dvoress had that chance.

It was short-stacked and short-structured, so there was nothing to be taken for granted.

FINAL TABLE LINE-UP

Lautaro Guerra - 2,805,000 (56 BBs)

Dan Dvoress - 2,220,000 (44 BBs)

Patrik Antonius - 1,410,000 (28 BBs)

Joao Simao - 1,145,000 (23 BBs)

Manuel Stojanovic - 705,000 (14 BBs)

Sean Rafael - 580,000 (12 BBs)

Wang Ye - 340,000 (7 BBs)

Wang Ye had lost a major chunk of his stack in the hand that eliminated Cowen. It was a three-way coup in which Cowen and Antonius had been at risk, but from which Antonius tripled up. Wang was left with only the seven blinds with which he started the final, and they were down to five when he was involved once again in a three-way hand.

Once again, Antonius came out of it smelling of roses, but Wang and Manuel Stojanovic were not so fortunate. After Wang opened with A109, Stojanovic jammed for 12 blinds holding and Antonius called, covering them both, with .

The dealer sealed Wang and Stojanovic's fate with a board of 6Q3. Wang won $43,000 for seventh and Stojanovic took $54,500 for sixth. Neither had any bounties, but Antonius now had three.

Wang Ye was out in seventh...

...with Manuel Stojanovic taking sixth

At the other end of the chip counts, Dan Dvoress had supplanted Guerra at the top. But with Sean Rafael sitting with only three blinds, the two chip leaders conspired to play a 97 big blind pot that left Dvoress licking his wounds.

In fairness, it was aces versus kings, five-bet pre-flop, with Dvoress' KKQ succumbing to Guerra's . It put Guerra into the biggest lead yet seen at the final, with Dvoress slipping down ahead of only Rafael. Rafael was out soon after, but only when he'd allowed his stack to slip to one quarter of a small blind, presumably hoping to get a ladder up having seen the willingness elsewhere to play big pots.

Rafael won $70,000 for fifth and Antonius snagged this bounty as well.

Sean Rafael couldn't build back from one

Dvoress climbed but then slipped again, and was actually the shortest when he played a huge hand against Joao Simao. They got it in pre-flop with Simao holding KQ9 and losing to Dvoress' .

Dvoress didn't quite have Simao covered, which meant for the second time a player held less than a single big blind but still had their bounty, which sent the scavengers looking for it on the next hand. Guerra snaffled it with a flush.

Simao finished in fourth for $90,000 and had one $25K bounty as well.

Joao Simao was out in four

Guerra had the three-handed lead with 39 big blinds, with Antonius and Dvoress tied on 27. The levels were slipping by, but this was not yet as crazily short-stacked as other similar events. Yet.

After another level and a tournament break, they returned to a 20 big blind average. Guerra was back in front, but Dvoress flopped a set of jacks holding JJ10 to beat Guerra's (it was all in pre-flop) and that doubled him back into a narrow lead.

It got worse for Guerra as Antonius then also doubled, flopping a set of sixes. When the blinds went up again, Dvoress' 22 blind stack was biggest, with Antonius and Guerra at around 12 each.

But, of course, that wasn't the end of it. Guerra doubled now, this time through Antonius. After a single raise/call pre-flop, the pair got the rest in after the 106K flop. Both had kings with an ace kicker, but after the turn and river, Guerra had backed into a winning straight. It left Antonius with three blinds.

There was no coming back this time. Antonius' final chips, and the bounty, went to Dvoress, whose A64 became a flush. Antonius won $231,500, of which $112,500 came thanks to his four and a half bounties.

Four bounties but no titles for Patrik Anton

And so we were heads up, with Guerra the last man between Dvoress and a new Triton record for Dvoress. Dvoress had the chip lead of 27 big blinds to Guerra's 19, but absolutely nothing was certain just yet.

Except this is Dan Dvoress we're talking about.

Despite the exhaustion, despite the hour (2.20 a.m.) and despite the gravity of the moment, he got it done again. Dvoress' pocket kings -- KK6 -- held against Guerra's and the final bounty was his.

Lautaro Guerra couldn't quite beat Dvoress

That and an incredible third title. An outstanding triple and a perfect way to bring the curtain down in Montenegro.

Next stop, Jeju in September.