He may be just 24 years of age but Philadelphia’s Joe McKeehan has produced arguably the most dominant final table performance of all time to win the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and its US$7,683,346 first prize.
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Over the course of three days at the Rio in Las Vegas, McKeehan left his November Nine rivals in his wake – never relinquishing the chip lead he entered play with at the start of the week and sending six of his eight rivals to the rail by his own hand.
He was a 5:1 chip leader by the time he went heads-up against New Jersey’s Joshua Beckley last night and quickly finished the job with a combination of quality play and quality cards. In the final hand, a short-stacked Beckley shoved with pocket 4s and was called by McKeehan holding AT. A Ten on the flop just about sealed the deal and when no 4 arrived to save the day for Beckley, McKeehan was crowned the WSOP’s newest champion.
McKeehan ultimately beat out a field of 6,420 players whose journey began on 5 July and despite the four month break before the final table was played out he showed tremendous concentration to get the job done in the most emphatic fashion.
The final table placing and prizes were as follows:
- Joe McKeehan – US$7,683,346
- Joshua Beckley – US$4,470,896
- Neil Blumenfield – US$3,398,298
- Max Steinberg – US$2,615,361
- Zvi Stern – US$1,911,423
- Tom Canulli – US$1,426,283
- Pierre Neuville – US$1,203,293
- Federico Butteroni – US$1,097,056
- Patrick Chan – US$1,001,020
