If you're a high-stakes poker player, there are few opponents you'd be more unhappy seeing at your table than Michael Addamo. Indeed, Ali Imsirovic joked when accepting the Players Choice for Toughest Opponent at the 2022 Global Poker Awards that he only won "because Addamo isn't here."
Overbets, triple-barrels, seven-figure scores. These are all things that come to mind when thinking of Addamo, who since pivoting from chess to poker in 2012 has racked up over $22 million in Hendon Mob earnings to put him atop the Australia all-time money list.