In every major poker tournament, there is usually a player who has come close to taking down a major title but has come up just short in the end. For the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event, that player is Blake Bohn, who has a lengthy record of success on the tournament poker trail but has yet to capture that elusive first major victory. Bohn came into Day 7 of the battle for the November Nine in 17th place with an even five million in chips. He ended up in 23rd place for $262,000.

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The Minnesotan’s poker resume stretches back to 2005, when he earned his first tournament cash in a small tournament at the Fall Poker Classic in Shakopee. Bohn continued to terrorize the Gopher State’s poker tables until 2008, when he finished as runner-up in a Heartland Poker Tour event in Iowa. His first WSOP cash was in the Main Event back in 2010, when he came in 722nd out of the 7,319-player field.

In the next couple of years, Bohn put full commitment to the tournament poker grind with middling results. While he was able to generate six-figure earnings in both 2011 and 2012, Bohn was unable to log that notable win to put him on the poker map. He bettered his Main Event performance, finishing in 126th in the 2011 WSOP Main Event, and would tack on his first World Poker Tour cash in 2012 at the WPT’s stop in Jacksonville.

2013 could arguably be called Bohn’s breakout year. He won the Chicago Poker Classic for his largest ever tournament score of $288,171 and finished as runner-up to Jonathan Taylor in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament at the WSOP for another six figure score. Taking part in the $111,111 One Drop High Roller event, Bohn added his third six-figure cash of 2013 in finishing 15th.

There hasn’t been that elusive major title, however. Over the span of his career entering the 2015 Main Event, Bohn has racked up seven WSOP cashes, three WPT cashes, nine Mid-Stakes Poker Tour cashes and his performance long ago on the HPT.

In his ten-year career prior to the 2015 WSOP Main Event, Bohn has been able to accumulate nearly $2 million in career earnings from his 68 cashes, with his cash from the 2015 WSOP Main Event adding to those totals massively.