James Corwin Mackey (born February 25, 1986) is an American professional

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player. He attended the

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before

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of a pre-med program to pursue a career in professional poker. In 2007, at 21 years and 4 months, Mackey became the third youngest poker player at the time to ever win a

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, when he won the $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event, behind

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(won a bracelet in the first event of the 2007 tournament) and

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(won a bracelet in the 2006 tournament).

Early career

James Mackey started playing poker online in 2005 when he invested $75 in an online account. He turned that initial investment into $20,000 and decided to pursue a career professionally.

World Series of Poker success

Mackey's near-record setting win (third youngest to win a bracelet), in the 2007 $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event, came against a final table that included two players from the 2005 and 2006 Main Event, as well as two former bracelet winners. The final hand of the tournament was the famous 10-2 – the same hand that

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won back to back World Series of Poker Main Events with. In the following year's tournament, Mackey finished runner-up in the $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event, earning $297,792.

World Championship of Online Poker

On September 24, 2007, Mackey under the screen name mig.com won the

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(WCOOP) $1050 buy-in event winning $580,212.50 and the WCOOP bracelet. This was the third biggest prize in the site's history. As of 2020, James Mackey has live tournament winnings over $4,200,000. His 47 cashes at the WSOP account for $2,087,385 of those winnings.World Series of Poker Earnings
, worldseriesofpoker.com

World Poker Tour success

During Season 15 of the

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(WPT), Mackey won the 2016 WPT Choctaw tournament, with a top prize of $666,758. Prior to this win, Mackey had finished at the final table of two WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdowns, winning $124,704 for a seventh-place finish in Season 9 and $441,128 for a third-place finish in Season 12.

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References

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