Poker Tournaments

2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker

No-Limit Hold'em (Event 23)

Date:

Thursday, June 12, 2008 to Saturday, June 14, 2008

Buy-In:

$2,000

Prize Pool:

$2,446,000

Entrants:

1,344

RESULTS

CHIP COUNTS

UPDATES

POKER TWEETS

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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:05:06

Blair Hinkle Wins Event 23 ($507,563)

Congratulations to Blair Hinkle who now joins his brother in that elite bracelet winners' club.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:03:20

Hand #134 - Mark Brockington Eliminated in Second Place ($326,552)

Hinkle raises the button again, to 155,000. Brockington, who has been bleeding away blinds up until now, makes it 510,000. Hinkle considers it for a moment, before announcing that he's all in. Call. Brockington:

Hinkle:

Once more, the Hinkle Fan Club seem to be chanting some kind of satanic mantra: "SIX! SIX! SIX!" It works. Flop:

-- Hinkle flops the devil's own hand for a second time. Turn:

-- and Brockington is now drawing dead. The irrelevant river:

Meaning that Blair becomes the second Hinkle to win a bracelet this WSOP.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:57:58

Hand #133 - Hinkle

Brockington limps, Hinkle bets 150,000 from the big blind and laps up another heads up pot.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:56:37

Hand #132 - Hinkle

Hinkle raises the button, and Brockington folds.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:56:09

Hand #131 - Hinkle

The players limp/check their way to a

flop, which they check. Turn:

Hinkle bets out, and Brockington folds.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:54:39

Hand #130 - Hinkle

Hinkle raises from the small blind again and, again, takes the pot.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:53:52

Hand #129 - Hinkle

Hinkle receives a walk.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:53:05

Hand #128 - Hinkle

Hinlkle raises, Brockington folds. Hinkle shows pocket sixes.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:52:21

Hand #127 - Hinkle

Brockington concedes the small blind.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:51:55

Hand #126 - Daniel O'Brien Eliminated in Third Place ($198,132)

Hinkle raises to 130,000 from the button, and O'Brien makes it all in for 1.2 million from the small blind. Brockington folds, and Hinkle checks his hole cards again. He looks at O'Brien, and then down at the felt. And then he calls. O'Brien:

Hinkle:

"YES, COME ON DANNY!!!" shout O'Brien's supporters. "SIIIIXXXXX!!!" shouts the Hinkle Fan Club. This time it works. Flop:

-- "WOOOOOO!!!" Turn:

-- Hinkle is rubbing his hands and bouncing up and down River:

The Fan Club goes nuts, O'Brien takes third place money, and we are now heads up, Hinkle the chip leader.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:45:06

Hand #125 - Hinkle

Hinkle dips into his stack again, raising to 180,000 from the small blind. O'Brien concedes his blind.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:43:25

Hand #124 - Hinkle

Hinkle picks up the blinds and antes from the small blind.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:42:35

Hand #123 - Hinkle

A depleted Hinkle takes no respite, raising it to 125,000 from the button on the very next hand. Brockington makes the call.

Brockington checks to Hinkle who bets 150,000. Brockington folds.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:41:45

Hand #122 - Brockington

Brockington makes it 200,000 from the button, and Hinkle goes all in. Call. Brockington:

Hinkle:

"Five! Five! Five!" shouts the Hinkle Fan Club. Board: er,

and Hinkle's drawing dead right there. They probably shouldn't have shouted that. "Check the deck! That wasn't even exciting," says a Hinkle Fan Club member.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:16:51

Break Time

It's time for Hinkle to have a tinkle as the players head off for their twenty minute break.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:16:45

Hand #121 - Hinkle

O'Brien folds the button, and Brockington raises to 175,000 in the small blind. Hinkle goes into the tank for a while, and eventually moves all in for his very imposing, chip-leading 2.9 million. Brockington passes, and Hinkle takes the last pot of this level.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:13:51

Hand #120 - Hinkle & O'Brien

Hinkle raises from the button/under-the-gun to 105,000 and O'Brien makes the call. O'Brien checks in the dark.