The new king of poker has been crowned, Australian Stewart Scott won the No-Limit Holdem Main Event at the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship.
At the opening day launch of the Main Event, 2005 WSOP Champion and Crown Ambassador Joe Hachem threw down the challenge 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 obviously took this to heart, surviving a 681-player field loaded with top tournament pros, internet qualifiers and world champions, claiming the chip lead at the end of Day 4 and holding it throughout the final table to collect the championship title worth AUD $2 million, the custom made Poker Allure bracelet.
The chip stacks looked like this when the final table began:
Seat 1: Zach Gruneberg - 1,355,000
Seat 2: Barny Boatman - 349,000
Seat 3: Elliot Smith - 1,120,000
Seat 4: Richard Ashby - 658,000
Seat 5: Stewart Scott - 4,520,000
Seat 6: Peter Rho - 2,420,000
Seat 7: Rajkumar Ramakrishnan - 2,050,000
Seat 8: Sam Capra - 1,161,000
After playing a marathon session at the final table that lasted 12 hours, 36-year-old Scott from northern New South Wales walked away with a cool AUD$2 Million for his efforts, the largest prize ever awarded in a live poker tournament in the Southern Hemisphere.
Stewart Scott outlasted an incredible field of 681 players who anted up the AUD$10,500 buy-in for the Main Event, creating a prize pool of AUD$6.81 Million. The Main Event was the culmination of 18 individual events, which this year generated more than AUD$18 Million in the total prize pool.
After the final, life-changing hand, Scott scooped up all of the cash on the table and let it fall through his fingers. ‘Yeah!’ he shouted. His wife was let onto the set. Scott picked her up in a long embrace, spun her through the air, and gave her a kiss.
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
A little bit of trivia about Stewart Scott - he has a ‘Dream Chart / Wish List’ hanging on the back of his bathroom door, and on top of the list is the ‘Aussie Millions Champion Title’, along with a new kitchen for his wife and six month old daughter, along with other items and various words of encouragement.
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