28-year-old Australian Eric Assadourian has become the first PokerStars.net APPT Macau High Roller Champion, pocketing a massive $420,600.

Play kicked off last Monday with a field of 64 players from 16 countries – the field was reduced to just eight on the final day, as they battled it out for their share of the $1 million prize pool. Eric outlasted some of poker’s brightest stars, including the famed Team PokerStars Professionals: 2005 World Champion Joe Hachem, 1998 World Champion Scotty Nguyen and fifth place Aussie Emad Tahtouh, as well as poker’s best known “diva” Vietnamese-born Liz Leiu.