Hoyt Corkins wins the 2010 WPT Southern Poker championship against Jonathan Kantor at the Beau Rivage casino in Biloxi. Corkins earned a total earning of $739,486 from the event along with his new WPT bracelet and another $25,000 entry to May’s WPT World Championship at Bellagio as his second World Poker Tour title.
Gulf coast buy-in event of $10,000 draw 208 players that includes all the poplar poker players online. However, only 106 remained in the game to proceed to the second day. Jonathan Little, Corkins, Tommy Vedes, James “mig.com” Mackey, Paul Wasicka, Chad Brown, Matt “All In at 420” Stout and Gavin Smith are among the top ten players that lead the first day.
The second day of an event started with 106 players and end the night with only 27 players to compete on the Day 3. Corkins brought the biggest stack as well as the popular name in the final table. Hoyt Corkins collected 2,069,000 chips against the 1,169,000 of Tyler Smith.
The second largest stack did not stay longer in the game; in fact, he was the first player to be eliminated in the game. James Reed having the lowest stack stayed in the game and finished at the fifth place with $106,134.
Corkins have earned a total of $5,095,484 in his poker career as he won the WPT tournaments. He was also the WPT winner at the 2003 World Poker Finals at Foxwood and tagged as the “Alabama Cowboy” as he made an impressive mark on the WPT game in Mississippi.
