James Mackey

Career

The final table in this event included two players from the 2005 and 2006 Main Event as well as 2 former bracelet winners. Mackey, however, dispatched his competition in the shortest final table since May 2003 in 2 hours, 35 minutes. James Mackey started playing poker online in 2005 when he invested $75 in an online accountant

He turned that initial investment into $20,000 and decided to pursue a career professionally.

In the 2008 World Series of Poker, Mackey finished runner-up to Anthony Rivera in the $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event, earning $297,792. This was the third biggest prize in the site"s history.

As of 2009, James Mackey has live tournament winnings over $1,700,000. His 5 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,060,800 of those winnings.

Achievements

• At 21 years and 4 months, James Mackey became the third youngest poker player at the time to ever win a World Series of Poker bracelet when he won the 2007 $5,000 buy-in Number-Limit Hold"em event. The final hand of the tournament was the famous 10-2---the same hand that Doyle Brunson won back to back World Series of Poker Main Events with. On September 24, 2007, Mackey under the screen name mig.com won the PokerStars (WCOOP) $1050 buy-in event winning $580,212.50 and the WCOOP bracelet.