History is being made across the live felts this week. On Sunday, Vicky Coren became the first two-time European Poker Tour Main Event championafter a win in San Remo. On Monday, one day later, PocketFiver Blair blur5f6Hinkle (pictured) became the first person ever to win a World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event three times at the same stop. Hinkle took down the Council Bluffs Main Event for $90,000, his third time doing so.

He is just the second player to win three WSOP Circuit Main Event rings in general, joining Chris Ferguson.

Hinkle, a 28-year-old WSOP bracelet winner, told WSOP officials following his historic win, “I don’t think it has set in yet. I think I just take a lot of pride in my play and winning the tournaments. I think that my play is pretty good as we get deeper and it really starts to turn up to a higher level as we get closer to the final table and throughout the final table. I think that’s what I’m proud of. Winning each time doesn’t matter as much to me as playing well and feeling like I deserve to win it, I guess.”

Hinkle also told WSOP staff about remaining focused and balanced throughout a multi-day tournament like the Circuit Main Event: “If I ever start to think I’m going to win again, I try to keep myself in check. If I get too far negative the other way, I say, ‘Hey, you’re playing good. Keep it going and see what happens.’ I don’t like to tell myself that I’m going to win or that it’s not going to happen again. I just try and keep focused on every single hand I play and keep playing well.”

Hinkle won his first Council Bluffs Main Event title in 2010, defeating a field of 251 entrants to earn $88,000. He won the same Main Event three years later in 2013 for $121,000 after outlasting a field of 367.

In 2008 along with his brother, Grant drossxyuHinkle (pictured), he became one-half of just the second set of siblings ever to win WSOP bracelets and the first to do so in the same year.

In his third Council Bluffs title, Hinkle ended Day 1 with a chip stack that was twice as large as the next closest person, according to CardPlayer.

Here’s how the final table cashed out. Congrats to longtime PocketFiver Justin truesyaloseTruesdell, who recently won PocketFives’ NCAA Tourney Pick’em and finished eighth at Council Bluffs. Truesdell now has eight Circuit final tables to go along with his two rings:

1st Place: Blair blur5f6Hinkle – $90,700
2nd Place: Matt Bond – $56,086
3rd Place: Kenneth Douglas – $40,552
4th Place: Paul Ewen – $29,822
5th Place: Quang Pham – $22,341
6th Place: Daniel Carson – $17,024
7th Place: Charles Moore – $13,190
8th Place: Justin truesyaloseTruesdell – $10,385
9th Place: John Holley – $8,307

Hinkle won the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event for $1.7 million and owns $3.6 million in lifetime live scores, according to the Hendon Mob. He was #28 on the 2013 money list and #55 the year he won his WSOP bracelet.

Congrats to Hinkle on his historic achievement!

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