{"id":355,"date":"2008-06-03T10:13:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/general\/mike-sextons-big-cash-at-the-wsop.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:21:03","slug":"mike-sextons-big-cash-at-the-wsop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sextons-big-cash-at-the-wsop.html","title":{"rendered":"Mike Sexton&#039;s big cash at the WSOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Simon Young<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are the type to worry about running into strong players during a tournament, then it was probably best that you avoided the opening event of the 2008 World Series of Poker. Of the 352 runners in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold&#8217;em gold rush, an amazing 84 were WSOP bracelet holders. Between them they had a total of 143 chunks of wrist bling &#8211; or 20% of all bracelets won in the series&#8217; 39-year history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mike_sexton_large.jpg\" title=\"mike_sexton_large.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mike_sexton_large.jpg\" alt=\"mike_sexton_large.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWith that in mind, we are delighted to see PartyPoker.com&#8217;s ambassador <strong>Mike Sexton<\/strong> managed to take fourth place, pocketing a very nice $248,160 for his efforts. Mike, who many of our players met at the recent PartyPoker Million VI cruise in the Mediterranean, is no stranger to cashing at the WSOP &#8211; he&#8217;s done so an amazing 45, yes 45, times!<\/p>\n<p>While naturally disappointed not to win &#8211; the bracelet and nearly $800,000 went to Henad Medic &#8211; Mike was very pleased with his start to this year&#8217;s WSOP. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy to have cashed,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but very disappointed I didn&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many times  when we were four-handed, one of the other players could have been eliminated  but survived.\u00a0 Oh well, it was a pretty good start to the WSOP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was not his biggest cash by a long shot &#8211; in 2006 he won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/news\/items\/wsop_winner_mike_sexton.html\">WSOP Tournament of Champions<\/a>, picking up $1 million, half of which he gave to charity.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Mike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Simon Young If you are the type to worry about running into strong players during a tournament, then it was probably best that you avoided the opening event of the 2008 World Series of Poker. Of the 352 runners in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold&#8217;em gold rush, an amazing 84 were WSOP bracelet holders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sextons-big-cash-at-the-wsop.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77514,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/77514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}