pkr.com Player Profile on Hoyt Corkins
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Hoyt Corkins was born in 1960 in Alabama, he has always worn his cowboy type outfits at the tables and his nickname has become "cowboy" as a result.
He started learning poker at a fairly early age from his father and went on to begin competing in the World Series some years later, gaining his first bracelet at the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event in 1992. A really good place to practice poker is at pkr.com.
Afterwards Hoyt underwent some personal turmoil with divorce proceedings and retreated from the spotlight of the poker circuit for over a decade.
He reappeared in 2003, immediately winning over a million dollars at the World Poker Tour, this was followed by a second place finish in 2004 which earnt him almost $300,000 in prize money too.
2005 saw Hoyt take second place in the WSOP "Tournament of Champions Freeroll" and another $325,000 and 2006 saw some good tournament results also, but it was last year at the World Series that Hoyt matched his achievement from all those years ago and picked up his second bracelet and over half a million dollars.
Already Hoyt has begun the year well in 2008, finishing second in the WPT world poker open to take his live tournament earnings in total to around the $3.7 million mark. www.pkr.com
Hoyt is a man of a very quiet demeanour but has a very strong style of play and likes to go into pots raising, as you can tell by his results since his return to the circuit, he is a formidable opponent in any tournament he chooses to play in.
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