Grant Hinkle

Grant Hinkle

Hinkle after winning the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em at the 2008 World Series of Poker.
Nickname(s) GrantMasterFlash
GrantMisterFish
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World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s) 1
Money finish(es) 6
Highest ITM
Main Event finish
391st, 2013
European Poker Tour
Title(s) None
Final table(s) None
Money finish(es) 1

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 $857,983.[1]

Hinkle won his WSOP bracelet at a final table that included 2000 WSOP Main Event winner Chris Ferguson. The event began with 3929 players, at the time the largest ever field for a poker tournament other than the WSOP Main Event.[2]

Hinkle won the bracelet by bluffing his hand of 10 4 versus the A K of James Akenhead. Hinkle hit 10 4 10 on the flop to give him a full house. He then hit a 10 on the turn to secure the four of a kind and the bracelet.[3]

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.[4]

On August 15, 2006, Hinkle won the third event in the inaugural Full Tilt Online Poker Series, a $216 buy in Limit Hold'em tournament. He bested a field of 726 to win the $34,848 1st prize.

World Series of Poker bracelets

Year Event Prize Money
2008 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em $831,462

Notes

  1. "Grant Hinkle - results". CardPlayer.com. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  2. Calistri, Amy (2008-06-02). "2008 WSOP Event #2 $1,500 NLHE, Day 1b: Bach Leads Record Field". PokerNews.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  3. Lucchesi, Ryan (2008-06-04). "WSOP: Grant Hinkle Wins Event No. 2". CardPlayer.com. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
  4. Lucchesi, Ryan (2008-06-14). "WSOP: Blair Hinkle Wins Event No. 23". CardPlayer.com. Retrieved 2008-06-17.


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