Winfred Yu has won Event #3: HK$100,000 No-Limit Hold ’em Short-Deck after beating Isaac Haxton, heads-up, to claim the HK$2,040,000 (US$260,000) first prize.

Winfred Yu was at Triton’s Birth. He’s made four final tables, including two the last time the series was in Montenegro, but he had never turned one into a win until now.

It’s odder than a Triton player staying in the Holiday Inn to see a buy-in as low as HK$100,000 in this neck of the woods. That was the price for Event #3: HK$100,000 No-Limit Hold ’em Short-Deck, Ante-Only, and the organisers must have placed it on the menu as an apéritif for the No-Limit Hold’em disbelievers.

Winfred Yu is not one of those disbelievers.