Aussie Stewart Scott Wins 2009 Aussie Millons
Aussie Stewart Scott has won the 2009 Aussie Millions after outlasting 681 players. The man that hails from Norther NSW survived a gruelling 12 hour final table to claim victory and first place prize of $2 million AUD.
Scott finished Day 4 on the top of the leader board and never looked back throughout the final table. There were times when he was challenged for the chip lead but he never surrendered it. When 2005 WSOP Main Event winner and fellow Australian poker player Joe Hachem announced “I think it’s about time an Aussie took home the title, get your acts together!” it must have seemed like a distant hope. Scott played solid poker throughout though and thoroughly deserved his win.
Going into the final table here were the chip stacks:
- 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
Scott admitted in an interview after the tournament that his nerves did start to get the better of him with about 4 players left. Hands were getting harder and harder to win and there was a lot of money at stake. Congratulations to Australian poker player Stewart Scott for becoming the first Aussie in to win this prestigious tournament.
Here all the final places and earnings of each player:
- Stewart Scott – $2 million
- Peter Rho – $1 million
- Elliott Smith – $700,000
- Rajkumar Ramakrishnan – $400,000
- Sam Capra – $300,000
- Zach Gruneberg – $210,000
- Richard Ashby – $150,000
- Barny Boatman – $100,000