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Just like that an unknown on the poker tournament circuit is suddenly $1.3 million richer as Stewart Scott wins the 2009 Aussie Millions main event.
The new king of poker was crowned this evening, when Australian Stewart Scott won the No-Limit Texas Holdem ‘Main Event' at the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship held at Melbourne's Crown Casino.
At the opening day of the event 2005 WSOP Champion and Crown Ambassador Joe Hachem threw down the challenge gauntlet to all of his fellow countrymen that entered this tournament ‘I think it's about time an Aussie took home the title,' said Hachem. ‘Get your acts together!'.
Stewart Scott must have taken that to heart. He hung around in the middle of the pack for the first three days of this tournament, using the best of his survival skills. In the last two days, when it was time to make a strong push, he rampaged through the field to take home the title of 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event Champion.
After playing a marathon session at the Final Table that lasted 12 hours, 36-year-old Scott from Northern New South Wales, walks away with a cool AUD$2 Million for his efforts, the largest prize ever awarded in a live poker tournament in the Southern Hemisphere.
American Peter Rho played amazing poker and held his own against some of the best players in the world, busted out in second place winning a tidy AUD$1 Million.
‘We congratulate Stewart Scott on his tremendous accomplishment,' said David Courtney, Crown Casino's Chief Executive Officer. ‘He played superb poker over a prolonged period against a record field that included virtually every top professional and hundreds of talented amateurs from Australia and around the world.'
Finishing third and collecting AUD$700,000 was 21-year-old Elliott Smith from Vancouver.
The remaining players at the final table were:
4th place: Rajkumar Ramakrishnan - $400,000
5th place: Sam Capra - $300,000
6th place: Zach Gruneberg - $210,000
7th place: Richard Ashby - $150,000
8th place: Barny Boatman - $100,000
"The Aussie Millions tournament is certainly among the most riveting for our poker readers," stated Payton O'Brien, Senior Editor of Gambling911.com. "Of course the event would have been more exciting had there been a few well known pros among the mix."
Only Barny Boatman, who finished 8th, had achieved career tournament winnings totaling over $1 million until today.
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Ace King, Gambling911.com
