2010 WPT Southern Poker Championship Won By Hoyt Corkins

Hoyt Corkins has won the WPT Southern Poker Championship after besting a field of 208 players over three days to take down the WPT title and claim the $739,486 first place prize.  
The two time WSOP bracelet winner has now become a two times WPT champion and his latest victory brings his total live tournament earnings to more than  $5,000,000. Following his victory at the $10,000 NLHE buy-in event at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi, Corkins said:
“It’s wonderful. It’s been so frustrating coming in second twice, third once and sixth at another final table.”
Day 1 saw the field of 208 hopefuls who entered the tournament cut in half to 106 players with casualties including Jason Mercier, Shannon Shorr, Jeff Madsen, “Miami” John Cernuto, Chris Bell, and James Van Alstyne.
By the end of Day 2 just 27 players remained hoping to at make it to at least one of the 18 payed places, with Vedes finishing in 17th, Mackey in 14th, Justin “Boosted J” Smith in 13th, Ayaz Mahmood in 11th, and J.J. Liu in 8th. Andy Philachack became the inglorious bubble boy when Corkins eliminated him in 7th, after which the final table was set.
Corkins was the almost 2 to 1 chip leader as the final table action got underway, and managed to ease himself into the last three until a series of losing hands left him the short stack at the table. It then looked like Hoyt Corkins’  tournament was over as he found himself all-in with AJ vesus Jerry Vanstrydonck’s pocket kings but he managed to survive and eventually eliminate Vanstrydonck in third spot for $196,829.
Heads-up Hoyt Corkins had 3,635,000 chips to Kantor’s 2,665,000, but Corkins began to pull away and it was all over just 19 hands later when Kantor with Kc 10h limped preflop for 80,000 and Corkins with Ah 7C moved all and was called. The board ran out Ac 5s 2c 8c 5h to eliminate Kantor in second place for an impressive $366,643 pay day.
In the meantime the Alabama born cowboy Hoyt Corkins, also known as “Mr All-in,” secured himself a famous victory, a WPT bracelet and a hefty $739,486 first place payout for his efforts.