Australian poker pro Michael Addamo continued his assault on the high roller tournament scene by earning his third World Series of Poker bracelet Friday night at the Rio.
Addamo defeated Justin Bonomo heads-up and bested an elite field of 81 entries in the $50,000 no-limit hold’em eight-max event . Bonomo took home $700,228 for his runner-up finish and inches closer to reclaiming his top spot on poker’s all-time money list.
Addamo’s third bracelet comes just a month after he won the 2021 Super High Roller Bowl for a career-best score of $3.4 million. In 2021 alone, Addamo has four titles and nearly $7.4 million in earnings between live and online tournaments. He’s quickly becoming one of the more feared players in the highest stakes available, which only added to the pressure of picking up his third piece of WSOP gold.
“It does put some pressure [on you], because if you internalize and believe that, you can become complacent, and sometimes that might make you study less,” said Addamo after the victory. “I just try and keep humble and try not to let it go to my head and just keep working and studying hard.”
Two of Addamo’s three bracelets have come in high roller events. Along with Friday’s win, he took down the €25,000 high roller at the 2018 WSOP Europe. His first win came at the Vegas-based series earlier that year when he took down the $2,620 “Marathon” no-limit hold’em for $653,581.
Friday’s victory was the fourth seven-figure score of his career, which brings his total career earnings to $15.5 million.
Along with the prize money, Addamo picked up 700 points in the PokerGO Tour points race, climbing into second place in the standings as a result with 2,464 total points and more than $7.2 million in qualifying earnings.
The third and final day of the event, which was streamed live on PokerGO, started with five players and Addamo holding a massive chip lead, with 11.4 million of the roughly 23.4 million chips in play. The field was trimmed down the eight-handed final table late on Day 2 and watched Mustapha Kanit, Sam Soverel […]
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