Blair Hinkle (born 1986) is an American online high-stakes
poker
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, however in some places the rules may vary. While the earliest known form of the game w ...
player and live midstakes
poker
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, however in some places the rules may vary. While the earliest known form of the game w ...
player who won the
2008 World Series of Poker
The 2008 World Series of Poker was the 39th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, the series began on May 30th, 2008, and featured 55 poker championships in several variants. All ...
(WSOP)
$2,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. He earned $507,613 at the event. Less than two weeks earlier his brother,
Grant Hinkle
Grant Hinkle is an American poker player who won the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event. He earned $831,462 at the event, bringing his total live tournament winnings to $1,640,843.
Hinkle won his WSOP bracelet at ...
, also won a WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event making them the first brothers to each win a bracelet in the same year.
On November 7, 2007, Hinkle won the first event in the sixth
Full Tilt Online Poker Series, a $216 buy in No Limit Hold'em tournament. He bested a field of 3,676 players to win the $146,288 1st prize.
On February 20, 2011, Hinkle finished second in the nineteenth
Full Tilt Online Poker Series Main Event. A $640 No Limit Hold'em tournament where players were allowed to register up to 6 times, Hinkle won the most in a three-way deal securing $1,162,949.74, the largest prize to one individual in the site's history.
On August 22, 2013, Hinkle won the $5,300 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event for $1,745,245.
As of 2023, Hinkle's total live tournament winnings exceed $5,000,000.
His 58 WSOP cashes account for $1,697,613 of those winnings.
World Series of Poker bracelets
References
External links
Card Player profileHendon Mob profilePokerNews profileWSOP profile
1986 births
American poker players
Living people
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
World Series of Poker Circuit event winners
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