James Corwin Mackey (born February 25, 1986) is an American professional
poker
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player. He attended the
University of Missouri
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before
dropping out
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Canada
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of a pre-med program to pursue a career in professional poker. In 2007, at 21 years and 4 months, Mackey became the third youngest poker player at the time to ever win a
World Series of Poker bracelet, when he won the
$5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event, behind
Steve Billirakis
Steve Billirakis (born May 23, 1986 in Hampshire, Illinois) is an American professional poker player.
Billirakis won the first tournament of the 2007 World Series of Poker winning the $5,000 World Championship Mixed Hold'em Limit/No-Limit 2007 ...
(won a bracelet in the first event of the 2007 tournament) and
Jeff Madsen (won a bracelet in the
2006 tournament).
Early career
James Mackey started playing poker online in 2005 when he invested $75 in an online account. He turned that initial investment into $20,000 and decided to pursue a career professionally.
World Series of Poker success
Mackey's near-record setting win (third youngest to win a bracelet), in the
2007 $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event, came against a final table that included two players from the 2005 and 2006 Main Event, as well as two former bracelet winners. The final hand of the tournament was the famous 10-2 – the same hand that
Doyle Brunson
Doyle Frank Brunson (August 10, 1933 – May 14, 2023) was an American poker player who played professionally for over 60 years. He was a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) List of World Series of Poker Main Event champions, Main Event champi ...
won back to back World Series of Poker Main Events with.
In the
following year's tournament, Mackey finished runner-up in the
$10,000 World Championship Mixed Event, earning $297,792.
World Championship of Online Poker
On September 24, 2007, Mackey under the screen name mig.com won the
PokerStars
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World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) $1050 buy-in event winning $580,212.50 and the WCOOP bracelet. This was the third biggest prize in the site's history.
As of 2020, James Mackey has live tournament winnings over $4,200,000. His 47 cashes at the WSOP account for $2,087,385 of those winnings.
World Poker Tour success
During Season 15 of the
World Poker Tour
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(WPT), Mackey won the 2016
WPT Choctaw tournament, with a top prize of $666,758. Prior to this win, Mackey had finished at the final table of two WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdowns, winning $124,704 for a
seventh-place finish in Season 9 and $441,128 for a
third-place finish in Season 12.
World Series of Poker bracelets
References
External links
Card Player profileHendon Mob profileWPT profileWSOP profile
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1986 births
American poker players
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
World Poker Tour winners
People from Kansas City, Missouri
People from Columbia, Missouri
People from Las Vegas
Living people