Addamo Takes Over Late, Leads Final 9 in $25K
It was a tidy seven-hour Day 1 in SCOOP-43-H: $25,000 NLHE [8-Max, Super High Roller], $1.5M Gtd, and when it wrapped up, a familiar high roller name far outdistanced the rest in the final nine players heading to Wednesday's final table.
Aussie sensation Michael "imluckbox" Addamo has been a name that has appeared over and over in the payout tables of the big online events since last spring, and he's once again in command after "bagging" more than 125 big blinds in the compact 71-entry field.
He leads a final table that includes the usual of stars, players like Wiktor "Iimitless" Malinowski, Mikita "fish2013" Badziakouski, Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph and Niklas "lena900" Astedt.
Addamo was one of the later registrants and his day got started off on the right foot when he three-outed Sergi "srxakgirona" Reixach for stacks, ace-jack over ace-queen.
He really picked up steam late with three more bustouts, the most important of which came in a limped pot blind-on-blind when he flopped two pair and hit a full house on the river against Jordi "prot0" Urlings. Addamo blasted his favored overbets on the turn and river and Urlings couldn't get away from flopped top pair to bust a few spots shy of the money.
Other players making deep runs but not quite deep enough included Christoph "26071985" Vogelsang, Timothy "Tim0thee" Adams and Jason "jakoon1985" Koon, the latter bubbling when a three-bet shove with king-jack suited ran into an ace-queen suited behind him and didn't get there.
The remaining players have all locked up $54,286, meaning everyone has secured a profit since none fired the maximum of three shells. They'll play for $469,987 up top starting at 1:05 p.m. EDT, and PokerNews will again be on top of the live updates right here.
| Seat | Player | Stack | Big blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mikita "fish2013" Badziakouski | 1,021,752 | 29 |
| 2 | Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle | 2,687,426 | 76 |
| 3 | Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden | 1,877,297 | 53 |
| 4 | Conor "1_conor_b_1" Beresford | 1,684,957 | 48 |
| 5 | Wiktor "Iimitless" Malinowski | 1,962,432 | 56 |
| 6 | Niklas "lena900" Astedt | 968,102 | 27 |
| 7 | Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph | 1,906,328 | 54 |
| 8 | Michael "imluckbox" Addamo | 4,377,475 | 125 |
| 9 | Joao "Naza114" Vieira | 1,264,231 | 36 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
4,377,475 | -298,241 |
|
2,687,426 | 621,978 |
|
|
1,962,432 | -204,485 |
|
|
1,906,328 | -501,470 |
|
1,877,297 | 67,938 |
|
|
1,684,957 | 1,089,679 |
|
|
1,264,231 | 612,001 |
|
|
1,021,752 | -334,201 |
|
|
968,102 | 112,877 |