Today’s players are making some different plays than what he might have seen a decade ago.

He’s enjoyed the Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions so far, and especially likes the freezeout format and thinks the Action Clock is good for the game. It’s been seven years since Corkins, 59, last played in a WPT event and two years since his last major tournament cash. This poker is a grind, especially tournaments.” “This is a big buy-in for me compared to what I’ve been playing,” he says. He only plays about 10 percent of what he played in the height of the poker boom.

He enjoys traveling the world and used some of his winnings for investments so that he doesn’t have to work or play as much.

In recent years, poker has been put on the back burner a bit for Corkins. In total, Corkins has amassed more than $6 million in live tournament winnings and that also includes two World Series of Poker bracelets. That includes two runner-up and two third-place finishes. In Season VIII (2010) he won the WPT Southern Championship in Biloxi for $739,486.Ī trip to a final table with a shot at another title after such a long absence would certainly make some news in the poker world.īeyond his two titles, Corkins has 19 WPT cashes for $3.5 million including six final table appearances. A two-time WPT Champions Cup member, his first win came in Season II (2003) when he took down the World Poker Finals for $1.1 million. While he’s gone with a visor look this weekend here at ARIA rather than his Stetson, Corkins is still raking pots like in the old days. Fans and players may remember Hoyt Corkins from the tour’s early days, his signature cowboy hat a big part of some big final table appearances. One of the original WPT cowboys has jumped into the Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions this week and making a deep run.

Old cowboy poker player