Jim Bechtel

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Jim Bechtel
Jim Bechtel (2008)
Jim Bechtel (2008)
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1952
place of residence United StatesUnited States Gilbert
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,000,000
Total prize money $ 2,828,442
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 2
Cashes 25th
Best main event Victory ( 1993 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 4th
Last updated: March 15, 2020

James Gary "Jim" Bechtel (* 1952 ) is an American cotton farmer and poker player . He won in 1993 the poker world championship and is overall two-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker .

Poker career

Career

Bechtel missed his first tournament victory at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas just barely, when he in 1979 took second place at an event of the variant No-Limit Hold'em occupied. He made it in 1988 to the final table of the Main Event , where he the approximately 50,000 US dollar gained doped sixth. In November 1992, he won the Hall of Fame Poker Classic at Binion's Horseshoe for a prize of $ 214,000. At the 1993 WSOP , Bechtel was back at the final table of the main event and won the final hand with J ♣ 6 ♥ against Glenn Cozens 7 ♦ 4 ♥ on a board of 10 ♦ 8 ♠ 3 ♣ 2 ♣ 5 ♦ . For the first time since 1979 an amateur won the main event. Bechtel received a prize of one million US dollars and a bracelet . At the 2006 WSOP, the jump to the final table of the prestigious $ 50,000 he succeeded expensive HORSE -Events , where he won about $ 550,000 thanks to a fourth place. At the 2019 WSOP , Bechtel prevailed in a tournament in No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw and secured his second bracelet and the main prize of more than 250,000 US dollars. With the period of 26 years between two bracelets won, Bechtel set a new WSOP record.

Overall, Bechtel has earned more than 2.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Bracelet overview

Bechtel cashed 25 times at the WSOP and won two bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
1993 10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event - World Championship 231 1,000,000
2019 10,000 No-limit 2-7 lowball draw 091 0.253.817

Web links

Commons : Jim Bechtel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 10th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1979 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ 19th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1988 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Hall of Fame Poker Classic 1992 ($ 5,000 + 80 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ 24th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1993 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 50,000 HORSE) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ 50th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2019 ($ 10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship (Event # 21)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ Jim Bechtel captures No-Limit Deuce-To-Seven Lowball Gold on wsop.com June 11, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019.
  8. ↑ Jim Bechtel in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 11, 2018.
  9. ↑ Jim Bechtel in the World Series of Poker database, accessed June 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bechtel, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bechtel, James Gary (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 1952