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Joe McKeehen

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Joseph McKeehen is an American professional poker player and mind sports player from North Wales, Pennsylvania, born in 1991. He is best known for winning the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2015, the championship event of the sport's most prestigious tournament series, which earned him a first prize of 7,683,346 dollars. His Main Event victory places him among the poker world champions recorded in this atlas, and it is the achievement on which his reputation in competitive card play chiefly rests. The lead of his source describes him as both a poker professional and a mind sports competitor, tying his career to the wider tradition of strategy games played for stakes and titles.

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1991 1
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1. Joe McKeehen (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph
    born June 28, 1991
  • Competed In: World Series of Poker, lead paragraph, competed-in
    In 2015 he won the World Series of Poker Main Event, earning $7,683,346.
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