When Joe Ebanks took down the 2011 WSOP Six Handed No Limit Hold’em Championship on Thursday, the young poker pro from Ohio also pocketed the largest first prize payout to date at the 2011 World Series of Poker.
In addition to his first ever World Series of Poker bracelet, Ebanks collected $1,158,481 in tournament prize money, pushing his live poker tournament earnings up to $1,754,215.
The prize pool of $4,455,600 was created by 474 players stumping up the $10,000 buy in to play in the WSOP event, with plenty of poker’s biggest names taking part. But the likes of Freddy Deeb, Phil Laak, John Racener and Joe Cada, plus in form pros Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Ben Lamb, couldn’t stop the youngster tasting WSOP glory for the first time.
The result was far in excess of Ebanks’ largest live result prior to his WSOP bracelet win, which came in San Remo, when he took down a €1,000 No Limit Hold’em event on the World Poker Tour, earning €77,000 (a little over $100,000).
Ebanks, who played online under the moniker “ender555″, has also banked over $3 million in online tournament earnings. Poker’s “Back Friday” hit Ebanks as hard as anyone else:
“I lost a lot of my money because of that. Thankfully I won some money today! I’ll probably be moving after the series is over. I have to if I want to play online.”
Ebanks will defintiely be back in Las Vegas for the 2012 World Series of Poker though. He said: “It’s why I got into poker seven years ago. I wanted to win a WSOP bracelet. And now I won it in one of the best events to win it in.”
“This has given me more confidence. I’m sure I’ll be back and I definitely want to win more bracelets,” continued Ebanks.
Ebanks started playing professional poker seven years ago after quitting his psychology course at Kent State University, Ohio.
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