McKeehen, a self-proclaimed "Average Joe" from the outskirts of Philadelphia, won the World Series of Poker and its $7.68 actor cost on Tuesday while antic a best Allen Iverson jersey. Playing No-Limit Texas Hold'-Em, McKeehen, 24, acclimated a adulation of numbers and a relentless, Iversonian wear-'em-down appearance to yield down the competition.
His final head-to-head showdown came adjoin Joshua Beckley, 25. Beckley drew a brace of fours, giving him a slight antecedent bend over McKeehen's Ace-10, and went all-in. But the bomb brought addition 10, and anon abundant the hand, and the tournament, belonged to McKeehen.
"I adulation seeing a assertive force appear in with the dent lead, authority the dent lead, abide to play well, abide to affected obstacles and win," said Jack Effel, the World Series of Poker's clash director. "That shows the accurate accomplishment of the game."
This year's WSOP Main Accident featured 6,420 players, anniversary of whom ponied up $10,000 this summer for the attempt at a coveted bracelet. The World Series as a accomplished started in May and consisted of 68 contest over 51 days. The Main Accident began during the summer, and the acreage baddest down to the "November Nine." McKeehen came into the November allocation of the clash with the dent lead, and proceeded to assault off anniversary of his competitors in turn, assault six of the eight in head-to-head showdowns. Entering the final nine-player round, McKeehen had 63.1 actor chips, added than alert as abundant as any challenger, and by the end of Monday, he had 128 actor chips, added than three times his two actual opponents.
The World Series dates to 1970, if it began as an invitation-only event. It's now accessible to around anyone with the requisite five-figure access fee. Numbers are down in the World Series from poker's heyday in the mid-2000s, a time if online poker boomed and poker stars were the focus of books, movies, and accepted mythology. But authoritative crackdowns on poker deadened abundant of the accidental absorption in the game. Even so, it charcoal one antagonism area anyone can airing abroad with the sport's greatest prize, as Joe McKeehen just proved.
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