After only five months of playing the game seriously, a 19-year-old student from Adelaide won $96,000 at a poker tournament. Daniel Booth, who works as a part-time supermarket shelf-stacker, was the champion of the Adelaide Hold’em Championship at the Skycity Casino, in which one of the contestants was Joe Hachem.

The total prize pool of the tournament was $340,000 and the entry fee $3,000. However, Booth did not have to pay in order to play since he won a seat at the table through a regional tournament. “I never dreamed I would win this tournament especially since I was up against so many of the world's best,” he said.

Booth also confessed that he started playing poker and taking it seriously since June of this year, when the poker league started in Adelaide pubs and hotels. World Series of Poker Hachem lost all his chips on Saturday night but stayed until the championship finished and said it was fantastic to see such a young man winning his first live tournament.

Adam Cusenza, who is 23 years old and also lives in Adelaide, won the second prize worth $58,000 and Chris Tau from New Zealand took home the third prize of $40,000.