Australian wins $1.84M, claims Poker Masters title, jacket

Michael Addamo near nary uncertainty astir the Poker Masters title.

The Australian won the last 2 events for a combined $1.84 cardinal to wrapper up the wide tourney bid rubric — and the purple overgarment that goes with it — astatine the PokerGO workplace by the Aria.

“It’s been an unthinkable tally of winning a batch of all-ins,” Addamo told PokerGO. “It’s conscionable insane.”

Addamo held the bid points pb aft winning Event 11, a $50,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em tournament, connected Saturday for $680,000. He past slammed the doorway connected his competitors by winning the last event, a $100,000 No-limit Hold’em tournament, for $1.16 million.

Besides the jacket, Addamo receives an further $50,000 bonus for topping the Poker Masters leaderboard.

Addamo finished with 808 points. Nick Petrangelo was 2nd with 402 points aft finishing 2nd to Addamo successful the last lawsuit for $754,000. Lou Garza finished 3rd successful the points race, and Daniel Negreanu was fourth.

Addamo present has much than $10 cardinal successful vocation tourney earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database.

He said helium felt “mostly relief” aft winning.

“I thin not to slumber excessively good during these things, truthful I ever look guardant to the slumber aft these,” helium said. “I conjecture chiefly relief, but I’m definite the excitement volition travel soon.”

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