Joe McKeon Wins Poker Main Event 2015 World Series

He’s no longer a regular Joe. Philadelphia’s Joe McKeon, 24, won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet with a wire to wire at the last table Tuesday and the highest prize money of $7,683,346 at the richest and most prestigious event in the game.

Chip Leader Entering The Last Table The North Wales resident of Pennsylvania extended the lead until the chip became the only player left in the last three days of table play.

McKeon used his chip advantage throughout, constantly applying pressure to his opponents and continuing to hold hands at their hour and hour of death. He finished in July by knocking down the famous professional Daniel Negrianu in 11th place, and also knocked out players ranked 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, 4th, 3rd, and 2nd on their way to poker’s crowning. 온라인경마

Second place was 25-year-old Malton, New Jersey resident Joshua Beckley. Beckley’s brilliant run finally ended after beating 6,418 other hopefuls, but he leaves with $4,470,896 for his effort. He entered the last table in seventh place with 29 big blinds, but he chose his spot very well, always seemed to do the right thing at the right time, and came within a spot of becoming world champion.

McKeon’s ace, Ten, got Beckley to run on all fours, giving him 10 as the 10 failed, and Beckley could not improve on a turn or a river card. A respected professional, McKeon finished second at the 2014 WSOP event with $820,863 and now has joined the list of respected main event champions and WSOP Gold Bracelet winners, with his signature groundbreaking victory at the WSOP. With this victory, McKeon has now made nearly $11 million by playing poker for a living, despite his young age.

“I just focused and didn’t want to get ahead of myself. I’ve been doing that because it worked throughout the tournament,” McKeon said right after the win. “Of course I’m feeling pretty good right now.”

Beginning on July 5, 2015, with 6,420 hopefuls paying $10,000 apiece and $30,000 to start their tournament chips, McKeon, wearing a Philadelphia 76ers jersey similar to past winners who also made sporting jerseys in 2012 and 2013, ultimately outpaced all of them, grabbing all 192,600,000 chips in the game, and winning a first prize of $7683,000 and a $500,000 WSOP gold bracelet made by Josten. The total prize money for the event was $60,355,857.

McKeon won the WSOP World Championship later this evening at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in the famous Penn & Teller Theater. The competition has finished almost 40 stages, which is equivalent to nearly 80 hours of poker to reach the winner. In real time, however, the competition took 10 days and took place over 128 days to become the champion. When play began in July, players started with 30,000 chips and blinds were at 50 and 100. When the game ended at 8 p.m. in Las Vegas with 22 seconds left on level 39, there were 500,000 blinds, 1 million and 150,000 ants.

The three-handed start to the game lasted exactly 90 minutes before Neil Blumenfield was eliminated. Blumenfield, 61, of San Francisco, California, was expecting to be the oldest winner of the game since Johnny Moss, 66, won 41 years ago. A recently fired software executive in the Bay Area rarely participated in the game after he had second thoughts about paying $10,000 in admission just weeks after he was fired. But he decided to play, turning his $10,000 investment into a $3,398,298 salary. Blumenfield would also have become the first amateur to win the game since Jerry Yang won it in 2007. It took another half an hour for McKeon to go down in history after defeating his last opponent.