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‘Average Joe’ wins World Series of Poker, $7.68 million
In the end, it was all McKeehen as he went wire to wire to win the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event.
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Pennsylvania poker pro Joe McKeehen won the World Series of Poker Tuesday night, taking home $7.68 million.
McKeehen’s Ace-Ten bested Beckley’s pocket fours, when a ten came on the flop, giving McKeehen a pair of tens, and Beckley couldn’t improve on the turn or river card.
McKeehen held an overwhelming lead in poker chips coming into the finale and the entire three-day event.
The World Series as a whole started in May and consisted of 68 events over 51 days.
This year’s WSOP Main Event featured 6,420 players, each of whom ponied up $10,000 this summer for the shot at a coveted bracelet. Like Tuesday night, McKeehen won the pot by hitting a 10.
He put all of his remaining chips on the line – 12.1 million – on a pair of twos going head to head with McKeehen. Unfortunately for the fedora-wearing amateur, McKeehen was dealt pocket queens, one of many premium hands he received on this day. Not even the great Phil Hellmuth, a two-time champ, can say he dominated this event at the level poker fans saw from McKeehen this week (although he probably would).
Joe McKeehen or Josh Beckley would fit with the poker-champion prototype as 20-somethings who passed on a traditional career to try out their luck and analytical skills at the table.
For Joe McKeehen, the 24-year-old newly minted World Series of Poker champion from a Philadelphia suburb, it’s all about the numbers. McKeehen forced a short-stacked Josh Beckley into a decision for all of his chips.
Neil Blumenfield of San Francisco was eliminated in third place at the World Series of Poker Main Event on Tuesday.
“McKeehen playing really well but they are make it quite easy on him!”
Picking up premium hand after premium hand and already holding a massive chip lead, McKeehen was essentially unbeatable.
With all the cards laid out on the table – a three of clubs, six of clubs, 10 of diamonds and seven of diamonds – Blumenfield followed up an earlier 3.5 million chip raise with another 7 million. The two professionals live about an hour from each other and frequently play at Parx Casino in Bensalem, Penn.
If you play poker locally, you might know McKeehan: He’s routinely made the final table at big Atlantic City poker tournaments the last few years.
Blumenfield is a successful small-stakes tournament player in California and Reno and entered the Main Event with a little less than $45,000 in lifetime WSOP earnings, thanks mostly to his 285th-place finish in the 2012 Main Event.
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He becomes just the second player in November Nine history (Jonathan Duhamel in 2010) to come to the final table with the chip lead and leave with the bracelet.