Michael Addamo (born 1994) is an Australian professional poker player from
Melbourne
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. He is a four-time
World Series of Poker
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(WSOP)
bracelet
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winner.
Addamo was a chess player as a teenager and reached a career-high rating of 1930 in 2013. He studied to be an actuary.
Addamo began playing poker in 2012. His first WSOP cashes came in 2016, including a third-place finish in a $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event. He won his first bracelet at the
2018 WSOP
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in the $2,620 Marathon No Limit Hold'em event, defeating a field of 1,637 players for $653,000. Later that year, he added another bracelet at the
WSOP Europe, winning the €25,500 Super High Roller for €848,000.
Addamo won two more bracelets at the
2021 WSOP. First, he won the $50,000 No Limit Hold'em High Roller for $1,132,968. He then won another bracelet in the $100,000 No Limit Hold'em High Roller on the final day of the series, earning $1,958,569.
Playing under the name ''imluckbox'', Addamo won a
World Championship of Online Poker
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event in 2019. In June 2020, he was runner-up to
Justin Bonomo
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in the
Super High Roller Bowl
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The first edition of the event was held in July 2015 and featured a $500,000 buy-in, drawing a field of 43 playe ...
Online for $1,187,500, his largest career cash.
At the
2021 Poker Masters, Addamo won the final two events on consecutive days, including the $100,000 Main Event for $1,160,000, and earned the Purple Jacket as series champion.
As of October 2022, Addamo has $20.8 million in career tournament cashes.
World Series of Poker bracelets
References
External links
Hendon Mob profileWSOP.com profile
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1994 births
Australian poker players
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
People from Melbourne
Living people