Route 66 Leads to a Bracelet for Hinkle
by Crystal on 06.15.08, 1:00 am
Some say that “666″ is the number of the Devil himself, but for Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle (pictured at right), it worked miracles at the final table of Event #23, the $2K No-Limit Hold’em tournament. When the players were 3-handed, Hinkle raised his button and Daniel O’Brien raised all in. Hinkle debated and then called but found out his 6
6
was dominated by O’Brien’s 88
. Hinkle’s throng of supporters yelled for another six and indeed when the flop was laid out, it read A6
5, prompting the crowd to go wild! The 5 came on the turn, leaving O’Brien with the two remaining eights as his only outs. The K fell on the river, sending O’Brien to the rail and putting Hinkle into heads up play as the chip leader.
A mere eight hands later, Hinkle raised on the button and Mark Brockington reraised only to have Hinkle push all in. Brockington made the call with his AK, only slightly behind Hinkle’s 66. Again the crowd called for a six to come and this time it was Brockington’s tournament life on the line. The dealer laid out the flop of the A62 and Hinkle flopped a set of sixes once again, leaving Brockington drawing only to runner runner outs. The crowd was in hysterics! The 8 on the turn sealed Brockington’s fate and gave Blair Hinkle $507,563 and his first WSOP Bracelet win a mere 10 days after his brother Grant captured WSOP gold in Event #2.
