Grant Hinkle Wins WSOP Event #2
There were many pros in the field, but it was amateur poker player Grant Hinkle that managed to outlast the field of 3,929 players to win the 2008 WSOP $1500 NL Holdem Event.
Hinkle had never played a major event before this and never expected to actually win the thing.
“My goal coming in was just go as deep as I could,” Hinkle said. “After Day One, I was top-10 in chips and once I got there I started to think — how much money can I make and how far can I really go? I kept going and winning pots and I eventually got here.”
27-year-old Hinkle (a businessman from Kansas City, MO) didn’t intend on playing any other events, but after this huge cash he said he is gonna stick around and play the main event.
The tournament was the largest preliminary tournament and fourth longest tournament (53.5 hours) in WSOP history.
Here are the top 10 finishers in this event, plus their payouts:
1) Grant Hinkle - $831,462.00
2) James Akenhead - $520,219.00
3) Chris Ferguson - $388,287.00
4) Theo Tran - $327,148.00
5) Mike Ngo - $268,154.00
6) Aaron Coulthard - $211,841.00
7) Melvin Jones - $158,211.00
David Bach - $117,987.00
9) Joe Rutledge - $83,127.00
10) Jeff Wiedenhoeft - $52,021.00
There is still time left to qualify for the main event. This weekend, pokerstars (the largest online poker site) will be running a tournament where they will be putting up 200 packages for the main event (worth around $12,500), with only a $350 buy-in!
Also check out our 2008 WSOP Satellites page for other ways to there there!
gtycoon said
am June 4 2008 @ 8:08 pm
The crowd was heavily in favor of Chris Jesus Ferguson and I admit I was hoping he’d take it down too.
He just came off a great Heads Up Poker Championship recently and I had a feeling he would play well in this WSOP. We will probably see him again at another final table soon.
Hinkle Brothers Make WSOP History said
am June 16 2008 @ 8:54 am
[...] watching his brother Grant take down event #2, Blair Hinkle went on to take down the $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em event [...]