For 21 year old Jack Hinchey the poker player from Canada his long journey to Barcelona, Spain to take part in the competition of the 888.com World Poker Crown final table proved its value, when he triumphed and grabbed the top award of a million dollars.

The grand final table this week was web cast at Pacific Poker as the pinnacle of the most up-to-date contest featuring action both offline and online. Pacific Poker saw the first stage of the online contest, where the game went on until only ten players survived.  

And then the game was stopped and the participants, who included Hunchey and three additional Canadians, went over to the last table in Barcelona where they carried their chip counts to, and began playing a live in the flesh game, which was shown on the Internet when the last eight participants remained playing.

Included in the last eight were participants from Canada and Europe and they were: Germany’s Mark Roessler, Holland’s Arjan van Bavel and Bart Wetsteijn,  Poland’s Piotr Bert van Doesburg and Stanislaw, and Canada’s Jack Hinchey (chip leader), Michael Lawson and Mark Castonguy.

The game came to its termination eight hours after the beginning of the final eight participants. The success was Hinchey’s with a payout of one million dollars following a heads-up with Michael Lawson, also from Canada, who picked up three hundred and ninety seven thousand dollars in second place. He claimed that it’s far better being stuck in a sewer, meaning his Canadian pump business.

Piotr Stanislav came in third and pocketed two hundred and ten thousand dollars, while the Dutchman, Arjan van Bavel, who took fourth place won took home one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Bart Wetsteijn received one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, Van Doesburg, Roessler and Castonguy in turn picked up ninety, sixty and thirty thousand dollars each.

Posted on: May 24, 2008

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