Australian Eric Assadourian took out the Macau Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) high-roller event to take home US$375,000.

Starting out against 64 of the world’s best Texas Hold’em poker players in the US$15,000 buy-in tournament, Assadourian took 120,500 worth of chips to the final table of eight at the Grand Waldo Casino in Taipa.

Fellow Australian, Emad Tahtouh was the favourite to take out the tournament with a massed 343,500 in chips, almost three times his nearest rival.

Tahtouh rarely looked comfortable at the final table and when he bowed out in fifth just before the dinner break, it was game-on for Assadourian.

The 28 year old defeated Swede Bo Sehlstedt in the last hands of the tournament.

Assadourian won last year’s Melbourne Championships and is a regular at Sydney Star City’s poker table, where the APPT final will be played starting December 12.

On Monday night Vietnamese Dinh Le won the tournament’s main event, pocketing US$220,000.

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