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1993 Main Event Champion Jim Bechtel Making a Run More Than Two Decades Later

In 1993, the Dallas Cowboys won the Super Bowl and Emmitt Smith was named the MVP. Bill Clinton became the President of the United States, and the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series.

That same year, a man named Jim Bechtel won a different World Series — the World Series of Poker Main Event, taking home $1,000,000.

Bechtel is a man of few words, and the words he speaks are chosen carefully. On dinner break of Day 3 in this year's big one, more han two decades after his major score, PokerNews caught up with the Arizona cotton farmer who's been coming to the WSOP since 1979.