University student won $96,000 at a poker tournament | IXGAMES
A 19-year-old university student and part-time supermarket shelf-stacker has won $96,000 at a poker tournament in Adelaide. And he’s only been playing the poker game seriously for five months. Daniel Booth won the inaugural Adelaide Holdem Championship at the Skycity Casino over the weekend which featured Australian poker star Joseph Hachem. The poker tournament carried a total prize pool of more than $340,000 and included poker players from around Australia and overseas. (Most paid a $3,000 entry fee while others, like Booth, won a seat at the table through a series of regional poker tournaments). 
Hachem, who shot to fame when he won the World Series of Poker in 2005 and a prize of more than $7 million, was knocked out of the tournament on Saturday night but stayed around to present the cash prize to the winner. Second prize in the Adelaide championship, worth $58,000, went to another local, 23-year-old Adam Cusenza, while Chris Tau from New Zealand won $40,000 for finishing third.