Kelly Minkin

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Kelly Minkin
Kelly Minkin (2019)
Kelly Minkin (2019)
  Personal information  
Date of birth March 29, 1987
place of birth United StatesUnited States Waukesha
Nickname Machine Gun Kelly
Nickname
heatseaterpartypoker
place of residence United StatesUnited States Phoenix
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 262,912
Total prize money $ 1,519,604
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 25th
Best main event 29. ( 2015 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 5
Last updated: March 5, 2020

Kelly Julia Minkin (born March 29, 1987 in Waukesha , Wisconsin ) is a professional American poker player .

Personal

Minkin grew up in Milwaukee and moved to Phoenix with her parents and two brothers when she was eight . She attended the University of Arizona at Tucson and graduated in molecular biology and cell biology in 2010 . She then enrolled at the Arizona Summit Law School and graduated with a law degree in 2014 . Minkin then worked for the law firm Kent & Wittekind, PC in Phoenix.

Poker career

Kelly Minkin (2018)

Minkin occasionally visited the local casino with her then-boyfriend while she was in college . When he began to be more interested in basketball , Minkin regularly went to the casino alone and slowly played his way up during the stakes. In August 2013, Minkin played her first live tournament, the Arizona State Poker Championship in Scottsdale , after her father encouraged her to do so. There she finished second out of 1299 players and received prize money of over 150,000 US dollars .

From then on, Minkin often played regional poker tournaments . In January 2015, she won a tournament as part of the LA Poker Classic in Los Angeles with a prize money of around 55,000 US dollars. Just a week later, she made the final table at the World Poker Tour (WPT) main event in Hollywood , Florida , finishing the tournament in third place for over $ 260,000 in prize money, the highest of her poker career to date. In June 2015 she was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and initially cashed in three tournaments in the No Limit Hold'em variant . In July 2015 , she played the WSOP Main Event with a buy-in of $ 10,000. There she reached the sixth day of the tournament and was eliminated as the best woman in 29th place. For this she received prize money of around 210,000 US dollars. In the ranking of the Global Poker Index Player of the Year 2015 , Minkin came in 250th as the best woman at the end of the year and therefore received the award of GPI Female Player of the Year at the American Poker Awards in Beverly Hills at the end of February 2016 . In mid-December 2017, Minkin took third place at the main event of the WSOP circuit in Los Angeles for almost 100,000 US dollars in prize money. She reached her first WSOP final table at the 2018 WSOP and finished ninth with Loni Harwood and Haixia Zhang at the tag team event for a shared prize pool of $ 12,700. Two weeks later, Minkin was the only woman to reach the sixth day of the tournament in the main event , finishing in 50th place for more than 150,000 US dollars. At the end of October 2018, she finished third at the WPT Main Event in Jacksonville and received just under $ 150,000 in prize money.

In total, Minkin has earned more than $ 1.5 million in poker playing live tournaments. She can also be seen regularly on the US TV format Poker After Dark .

Web links

Commons : Kelly Minkin  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minkin Denied History at WPT Lucky Hearts; Altman Tops Dube to Capture Title for $ 723K on pokernews.com on February 12, 2015, accessed January 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c A Poker Life: Kelly Minkin on cardplayer.com on November 5, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Kelly Minkin on kwlaw-az.com, accessed on February 13, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ 9th Annual Arizona State Poker Championship ($ 1,000 + 80 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 4, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ a b Kelly Minkin in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 4, 2017.
  6. ↑ 2015 LA Poker Classic ($ 570 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 4, 2017.
  7. ↑ WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open ($ 3,500 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship # 16) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 4, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ Kelly Minkin in the World Series of Poker database, accessed November 2, 2019.
  9. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 4, 2017 (English).
  10. ↑ American Poker Awards - Honorary Award for Mike Sexton on pokerfirma.com on February 26, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017.
  11. ↑ WSOP Circuit - Los Angeles ($ 1,675 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 13, 2017.
  12. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Tag Team (Event # 55)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 30, 2018.
  13. ↑ Minkin last woman standing again in WSOP's Main Event on reviewjournal.com on July 9, 2018, accessed on July 10, 2018.
  14. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event Championship (Event # 65)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 11, 2018.
  15. ↑ WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 24, 2018 (English).
  16. ↑ Kelly Minkin is in charge of "Masters of the Main" on PokerGO at pokercentral.com on August 22, 2018, accessed on November 6, 2018 (English).
  17. ↑ Poker After Dark: 888poker Week with Chris Moorman on pokerfirma.com on November 5, 2018, accessed on November 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Minkin, Kelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minkin, Kelly Julia (full name); Machine Gun Kelly (nickname); heatseater (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Waukesha , Wisconsin , United States