A 19-year-old college student and part-time supermarket employee has won $96,000 at a poker tournament.

And he's only taken it up seriously for about five months.

Australian Daniel Booth won the inaugural Adelaide Holdem Championship at the Skycity Casino. The tournament carried a total prize pool of more than $340,000 and included players from around Australia and overseas.

Booth, won a seat at the tables through his participation in regional poker tournaments. He remarked "I've only recently started playing poker and taking it seriously since the poker league started in Adelaide pubs and hotels in June of this year."

Poker pro Joseph Hachem, winner of  the World Series of Poker in 2005 and a prize of more than $7 million, participated in the action. He was eliminated 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.