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Saturday, June 14, 2008 8:05 PM Local Time
Congratulations to Blair Hinkle who now joins his brother in that elite bracelet winners' club.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 8:03 PM Local Time
Hinkle raises the button again, to 155,000. Brockington, who has been bleeding away blinds up until now, makes it 510,000. Hinkle considers it for a moment, before announcing that he's all in. Call.
Brockington:
Hinkle:
Once more, the Hinkle Fan Club seem to be chanting some kind of satanic mantra: "SIX! SIX! SIX!"
It works.
Flop:
-- Hinkle flops the devil's own hand for a second time.
Turn:
-- and Brockington is now drawing dead.
The irrelevant river:
Meaning that Blair becomes the second Hinkle to win a bracelet this WSOP.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:57 PM Local Time
Brockington limps, Hinkle bets 150,000 from the big blind and laps up another heads up pot.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:56 PM Local Time
Hinkle raises the button, and Brockington folds.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:56 PM Local Time
The players limp/check their way to a
flop, which they check.
Turn:
Hinkle bets out, and Brockington folds.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:54 PM Local Time
Hinkle raises from the small blind again and, again, takes the pot.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:53 PM Local Time
Hinkle receives a walk.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:53 PM Local Time
Hinlkle raises, Brockington folds.
Hinkle shows pocket sixes.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:52 PM Local Time
Brockington concedes the small blind.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:51 PM Local Time
Hinkle raises to 130,000 from the button, and O'Brien makes it all in for 1.2 million from the small blind. Brockington folds, and Hinkle checks his hole cards again. He looks at O'Brien, and then down at the felt. And then he calls.
O'Brien:
Hinkle:
"YES, COME ON DANNY!!!" shout O'Brien's supporters.
"SIIIIXXXXX!!!" shouts the Hinkle Fan Club. This time it works.
Flop:
-- "WOOOOOO!!!"
Turn:
-- Hinkle is rubbing his hands and bouncing up and down
River:
The Fan Club goes nuts, O'Brien takes third place money, and we are now heads up, Hinkle the chip leader.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:45 PM Local Time
Hinkle dips into his stack again, raising to 180,000 from the small blind. O'Brien concedes his blind.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:43 PM Local Time
Hinkle picks up the blinds and antes from the small blind.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:42 PM Local Time
A depleted Hinkle takes no respite, raising it to 125,000 from the button on the very next hand. Brockington makes the call.
Brockington checks to Hinkle who bets 150,000. Brockington folds.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:41 PM Local Time
Brockington makes it 200,000 from the button, and Hinkle goes all in.
Call.
Brockington:
Hinkle:
"Five! Five! Five!" shouts the Hinkle Fan Club.
Board: er,
and Hinkle's drawing dead right there. They probably shouldn't have shouted that. "Check the deck! That wasn't even exciting," says a Hinkle Fan Club member.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:30 PM Local Time
The Hinkle fans spot references of themselves in the PokerNews blog...
"Can they hear what we say?" asks one confused chap.
"Yeah, man, they're over there," says another pointing to my isolated figure just a few yards away.
More tales from the rail as we receive them...
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:16 PM Local Time
It's time for Hinkle to have a tinkle as the players head off for their twenty minute break.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:16 PM Local Time
O'Brien folds the button, and Brockington raises to 175,000 in the small blind. Hinkle goes into the tank for a while, and eventually moves all in for his very imposing, chip-leading 2.9 million. Brockington passes, and Hinkle takes the last pot of this level.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:13 PM Local Time
Hinkle raises from the button/under-the-gun to 105,000 and O'Brien makes the call. O'Brien checks in the dark.
Hinkle bets 100,000, O'Brien calls.
Turn =
Check, check.
River =
Check, check.
10-9 versus J-10, chop chop
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:11 PM Local Time
Hinkle takes it prelfop.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:11 PM Local Time
O'Brien passes, Brockington passes -- another walk for Hinkle.