2007 WSOP Event 30 - No Limit Holdem / Six Handed $2,500

  The last time Hoyt Corkins won a World Series of Poker bracelet Bill Clinton was running for the Presidency of the United States, Pearl Jam was the biggest band in the world, plaid was cool, and everyone who spent more than three hours a month in a gym was getting those barbed wire tattoos around their biceps. Hoyt Corkins may have looked at was going on around him in the world and decided this was a good time to declare civilization dead and just disappear. As it turns out, his long absence from poker was not due to a perfectly reasonable case of culture paranoia, but rather was the end result of the sort of divorce proceedings that made the Hatfield and McCoy feud look like a friendly disagreement about which family had a better chili recipe.  After 11 years away from the sport, Hoyt's current fiance convinced him that the time was right to come back to professional poker. Obviously Hoyt is a man of courage; getting engaged after the bitter divorce he managed to get through is akin to making lemonade with water from the same well that caused an outbreak of the Ebola virus. Coming back to pro poker was small potatoes by comparison.  After spending the last few years playing himself back into shape, and winning an impressive amount of money at the same time, Corkins came to the World Series of Poker this year ready to make an impact.  It didn't take Hoyt long to show that his time away from poker hasn't caused him to miss a step. At Event 30 Corkins turned Terrence Chan into his first WSOP since the days when grunge ruled the world. At the conclusion of this No Limit Holdem tournament, Hoyt had won a bracelet for his other wrist.  We will never know how many bracelets Hoyt Corkins would have if he hadn't taken a decade off, it is more fun to speculate on how many he will win in the future.1Hoyt Corkins$515,0652Terrence Chan$287,3453William Lin$196,7584Alan Sass$132,4715Kelly Vander-Mheen$96,4316James Pittman$63,1187Steve Wong$47,3398Yakov (Jacob) Hirsch$47,3399Russell Barnes$33,507