Michael Addamo Wins WPT World Online Championships $100,000 Buy-In Event
Australian poker ace Michael Addamo has won the hottest six-figure buy-in super high-definition championship, beating a field of 40 entrances to take the 2020 World Poker Tour World Online Championships $100,000 buy-in no-limit holdCeltics occasion. The two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner has been granted $1,284,113 for the triumph, the most significant score of his youthful career. Addamo is only 26 years old, however he’s accumulated over $11.1 million in listed tournament scores.
The last table of the two-day, high-stakes tournament started with seven players remaining, but just the top six finishers will produce the cash. Addamo came to the last day with the guide, together with Sergi Reixach and Christoph Vogelsang sitting on the next-largest stacks. WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Dvoress entered the afternoon in the center of the bunch, but finally was before all else to be removed. He dropped a sizable kettle to Cogelsang off the bat, then got his final 12 or so large blinds with with Q
J
up against the A
Q
of Reixach. Dvoress failed to enhance and was pumped out to the currency bubble.
Charlotte Godwin came to the afternoon as the shortest stack. As per a Twitter article from Jason Koon, Godwin won her way into this six-figure buy tournament using a $109 first investment into a satellite. She was able to make her way through numerous successive qualifiers to make a seat in this occasion, then battled it out from the very best tournament players from the world so as to locate herself at the cash and ensured partially a $229,600 cash back. She’d approximately $90,000 in previous live tournament cashes for her title. Godwin was quite brief stacke in the right time of Dvoress’ bustout, but managed to win two all-ins to find herself in a more comfortable position.
Germany’s Christoph Vogelsang was the next to fall. The 2017 Super High Roller Bowl champion got the last of his short stack in with Q
Q
, only to run into the K
K
of fellow SHRB champion Isaac Haxton. The pocket kings held up and Vogelsang hit the rail in sixth place ($229,600). Just moments later high-stakes online crusher Linus Loeliger was sent packing in fifth place when his Q
10
failed to outrun the 4
4
of Reixach. Loeliger earned $276,000 for his deep run.
Four-handed play began with Addamo as the clear chip leader and Godwin as the shortest stack, while Reixach and Haxton sat essentially tied for second with stacks of around 50 big blinds. Godwin had just 14 big blinds when the two medium stacks ended up clashing in the next big confrontation. Reixach min-raised as the before all else to act preflop with A
4
and Haxton three-bet to 131,000 from the big blind with A
K
. Reixach four-bet all-in for 828,000 and Haxton called, having his opponent covered by roughly one big blind. The board ran out 8
7
2
7
9
and Reixach was sent home in fourth place ($374,000).
Godwin took a stand a few minutes later, getting her last 14 big blinds into the middle with A
2
. She received a call from Addamo’s A
6
. Both players ended up with a pair of aces on a Q
10
4
5
A
runout, but Addamo’s six kicker played to earn him the pot and the knockout. Godwin cashed for $620,000 as the third place finisher, by far the largest score on her tournament resume. Given that she was only in for $109, Godwin had an incredbile return on investment (ROI) of 568,707.34 percent in this event.
Addamo took 143 big blinds into heads-up play against Haxton, who sat with 107 big blinds following Godwin’s elimination. The two struck a deal heads-up based that distributed the remaining money based on ICM, leaving an additional $30,000 and the title to play for. They two battled it out for over two hours, with Haxton overtaking the lead early on only to have Addamo regain the improvement by winning a big pot with a flopped straight against a turned pair of aces for Haxton.
By the time the final hand was dealt, Addamo had built more than a 4:1 chip lead. In the decisive pot he limped in for 30,000 from the button with A
5
and Haxton moved all-in for 753,000 (about 24 big blinds). Addamo made the call and the board ran out K
3
3
J
A
and Addamo spiked an ace on the river to lock up the pot and the title. Haxton took home $1,216,286 as the runner up.
Here is a look at the payouts awarded at the final table:
| Place | Name | Earnings |
| 1 | Michael Addamo | $1,284,113 |
| 2 | Isaac Haxton | $1,216,286 |
| 3 | Charlotte Godwin | $620,000 |
| 4 | Sergi Reixach | $374,000 |
| 5 | Linus Loeliger | $276,000 |
| 6 | Christoph Vogelsang | $229,600 |
Godwin photo credit: partypoker LIVE.
