Grant Hinkle is an American

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player who won the

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(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

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at a final table that included 2000 WSOP Main Event winner

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. The event began with 3929 players, at the time the largest ever field for a poker tournament other than the WSOP Main Event. Hinkle won the bracelet by bluffing his hand of versus the of

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. Hinkle hit on the flop to give him a full house. He then hit a on the turn to secure the four of a kind and the bracelet. Less than two weeks later WSOP history was made when his brother, Blair Hinkle, also won a WSOP bracelet in the $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em event making them the first brothers to each win a bracelet during the same year. On August 15, 2006, Hinkle won the third event in the inaugural

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, a $216 buy in Limit Hold'em tournament. He bested a field of 726 to win the $34,848 1st prize.

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