The poker was thrilled to receive his new champion when Bradley Hinson won the recent World Series of Poker Circuit. The 36-year-old, Hinson who belongs to native North Carolina became victorious after defeating a total of 747 entries in the 2020 WSOP Circuit Rio Las Vegas $1,700 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. He earned $209,216 as a winning prize along with WSOPC gold ring as the champion.
“I feel like most people where I am from wouldn’t have that level of support for playing poker”- Bradley on winning the title
Bradley after becoming the winner gave a short statement where he said, “I have always wanted to win one. I just don’t usually play that many tournaments. Fifteen years ago when I started playing, I always considered it a bucket list thing for me to win.”
While talking about his upbringing he further said, “I am from the middle of nowhere North Carolina; I want to thanks my family, my friends and God. My family has always been super supportive. I feel like most people where I am from wouldn’t have that level of support for playing poker, so it means a lot to me. My parents are wake right now on the east coast waiting for me to tell them how I did.”
Hinson along with hardware and the money also received 912 Card Player “Player of the Year” points as the champion of the event. Despite this being the his first POY-qualified score of the year, he still managed to move into a tie for 46th place in the 2020 POY race standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.
The payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:
Place | Player | Payout (USD) | POY Points |
1 | Bradley Hinson | $209,216 | 912 |
2 | Trung Pham | $129,305 | 760 |
3 | Michael Stein | $95,654 | 608 |
4 | James Duke | $71,540 | 456 |
5 | Adam Hendrix | $54,101 | 380 |
6 | Louise Francoeur | $41,375 | 304 |
7 | Faisal Siddiqui | $32,003 | 228 |
9 | Mark Ioli | $25,039 | 152 |
9 | Joseph Marchal | $19,819 | 76 |
Following an announcement on Monday, it was confirmed that ConsenSys based project, Virtue Poker raised $5 million in funding. The…
Cartesi and Polygon have recently announced the development of a fully decentralized Poker game on top of Polygon’s PoS Chain.…
Competition this spring will be fierce as GGPoker is taking PokerStars heads on by running their own GG Spring Festival…
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is up pretty soon with $100 million in guaranteed prizes for grabs across 102…
America's Cardroom has announced its High Five Tournament series. The High Five series will run from March 31 to April…
The world's most popular online tournament, the PokerStars Sunday Million is celebrating its 15th anniversary this coming Sunday March 21st and…