Michael Addamo is an Australian poker player and four-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. He is also a former WPT World Online Championships Super High Roller (2021), Super High Roller Bowl (2021) and Poker Masters (2021) champion.
As of December 2024, he has amassed over $22.2 million in lifetime earnings and is top of the Australian all-time money list.
Early Poker Achievements
During the early 2010s, most of Addamo's cashes came in A$200 weekly tournaments at the Crown Casino, Melbourne, in his native Australia.
The biggest cash of his early career came in the 2015 Aussie Millions Main Event, where he finished 21st for A$40,000 (~$31,605).
His first cash outside of Australia came later that year, cashing in the APPT Asia Championship of Poker in Macau.
Starting to Travel
Addamo's first trip to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) came in 2016. After a min-cash in the Colossus, he registered a third-place finish in a $1,500 NLHE event for $196,202, and his WSOP career was up and running. Addamo would cash seven times at the 2016 WSOP for almost $250,000.
After briefly returning to Australia, Addamo travelled to Europe for the first time. He cashed in the EPT Barcelona Main Event and the EPT Prague High Roller. After narrowly missing out on a first Aussie Millions ring, in 2017, he travelled to Macau once again to play in the PokerStars Championship Macau, winning a side event for $196,000.
Addamo would cash nine times at the 2017 WSOP, including a third-place finish in a $333 WSOP.com Online Event.
After trips to Macau and Barcelona in 2018, Addamo would head once again to the WSOP. In previous years, he had quickly got up and running, and that proved the case this time as he defeated a field of 1,637 players to win Event #24: $2,620 MARATHON No-Limit Hold'em for $653,581.
The High Roller World
Addamo traveled to the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) in 2018 and grabbed a second bracelet in the €25,500 High Roller for €848,702 (~$973,360). He also final tabled the Super High Roller, finishing eighth for an additional €264,110 (~$300,000).
As a result, the Australian began firing €/$25,000 tournaments more regularly, cashing three times at EPT Prague in 2018, including two single-day €25,000 tournaments for over $300k.
A 17th-place finish in the Aussie Millions Main event would kickstart his 2019 before a Spring spent playing at EPT Monte Carlo and Triton Jeju, South Korea. The summer saw Addamo fire ARIA $10,000 High Rollers against the best in the world — winning two of them — and he also found time for a third-place finish in the WSOP $50,000.
Six-figure cashes would follow at the partypoker MILLIONS Europe and EPT Barcelona to round out 2019.
In 2020, Addamo finally got his hands on an Aussie Millions ring, winning the $50K Challenge, before winning a $100,000 title at the 2020 Australian Poker Open.
Pandemic and Online Success
The COVID-19 pandemic saw many of the world's most recognisable poker tours move online, with players adjusting to the new normal when it came to grinding poker tournaments.
Addamo flourished online. He helped himself to Super High Roller Bowl Online and Poker Masters Online titles and narrowly missed out on a third WSOP bracelet after finishing runner-up in the GGPoker WSOP Online $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship.
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The World Poker Tour World Online Championships came to partypoker in 2020, with Addamo clinching victory in the $100,000 Super High Roller. Six months later it was the MILLIONS Online on partypoker, with Addamo triumphing yet again in the $102,000 Mega High Roller.
Away from partypoker, Addamo also found time to win four Super MILLION$ titles on GGPoker, and also lose the biggest-ever online No-Limit Hold'em cash game pot in history!
Return to Live
2021 saw the return of live poker, with Addamo flourishing with the return of the Poker Masters. Two back-to-back victories for over $1.8 million saw him win the Purple Jacket.
And less than two weeks later, Addamo added yet another high-profile victory to his poker resume, winning the Super High Roller Bowl for $3.4 million.
However, Addamo was only getting started with a third and fourth WSOP bracelet coming later that year. He first wonEvent #38: $50K High Roller for $1,132,968, and followed that up with victory in Event #87: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em for an additional $1,958,569.
In August 2022, Addamo dominated tournaments in Spain. After winning two Triton Poker Series Madrid titles for more than €1.5 million, he won €50,000 EPT Barcelona High Roller for €917,330 and won another €460,000 for two final table appearances in high roller events.
A well-deserved break saw Addamo only cash fives times in 2023, and three times in 2024.
Michael Addamo's Top 5 Live Poker Results
| Date | Event | Rank | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2021 | $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl | 1st | $3,402,000 |
| Nov 2021 | $100,000 WSOP High Roller | 1st | $1,958,569 |
| May 2022 | €75,000 Triton Poker Series Madrid | 1st | $1,210,721 |
| Jun 2020 | $120,000 Super High Roller Bowl Online | 2nd | $1,187,500 |
| Sep 2021 | $100,000 PokerMasters | 1st | $1,160,000 |
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