Michael Addamo Wins European Poker Tour Barcelona €50,000 Single Day High Roller

Quality over quantity.

High-stakes online poker professional Michael Addamo has taped just 14 online tournament cashes considering that the beginning of 2021. Yet the four-time bracelet victor from Australia has actually certainly made those ratings matter. Addamo has actually accumulated more than $12.5 million dollars throughout these pick in-the-money finishes, leading to an ordinary cash advance of $896,356 when making the money during this duration. During this sample, Addamo has won 9 titles and secured five seven-figure ratings.

The 28-year-old’s most recent title run saw him emerge victorious from an area of 62 access in the 2022 European Poker Trip Barcelona EUR50,000 buy-in no-limit hold ’em single-day high-stakes gambler event. This was his 20th recorded career title. The leading prize of $944,849 enhanced his lifetime incomes to greater than $25.2 million, prolonging his lead on Australia’s all-time money listing.

Addamo likewise safeguarded 612 Card Gamer of the Year points for the win. This was his third title and also fifth final-table coating of the year. With 2,405 total factors and more than $3 million in incomes until now, Addamo has reached 46th place in the 2022 POY race funded by Global Poker.

This briskly paced occasion paid out $3,129,140 in prize money to the top eight finishers. Morten Klein was knocked senseless on the money bubble, with his kings being broken by the ace-king of Mikalai Vaskaboinikau.

Addamo got off to a fast begin at the main last table, knocking out Michael Soyza (8th– $123,909) and also bracelet victor Sam Greenwood (7th– $154,891) to surpass the lead heading into six-handed activity.

Arm band champion Dan Smith obtained all-in with two set and a flush draw dealing with the greater 2 set of two-time bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs. Smith discovered no help on the river and also was eliminated in sixth place ($ 201,365).

Addamo had a bluff picked off by Ponakovs during five-handed play that saw him give up the leading spot on the chip counts, yet he quickly recoiled by getting rid of fellow four-time arm band victor Adrian Mateos in fifth location. Mateos pushed from the little blind with Q-5 as well as Addamo called with 8-6 matched. Addamo made 6s as well as 10s to win the pot. Mateos earned $263,319 for his deep run. The Spanish superstar now has greater than $29.7 million life time cashes under his belt.

Vaskaboinikau’s run came to an end in 4th place when his pocket 8s faced the pocket nines of David Yan. Both gamers made an established by the river, yet Yan’s stayed ideal to see Vaskaboinikau sent house with $340,765.

Addamo doubled through Ponakovs throughout three-handed activity, leaving the Latvian on fumes. He quickly committed himself with A-Q, just to obtain outflopped by the A-7 of a surging Addamo. Ponakovs was not able to gain back the advantage in the hand from there and also was sent packing in 3rd location ($ 449,183).

Keeping that Addamo took roughly a 7:5 introduce heads-up play with Yan. He was able to retreat even more by the time the last hand was dealt. With blinds of 40,000-80,000 as well as an 80,00 huge blind stake, Yan pushed for 1,935,000 from the button with AClub Suit2Diamond Fit. Addamo called with QClub Suit10Diamond Match as well as the board walking cane down QHeart SuitJHeart Suit9Heart Suit3Heart Suit2Club Fit to bring the tournament to a close. Yan was awarded a career-best cash advance of $619,565 as the runner-up finisher.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table: