2015 WSOP on ESPN: Joe McKeehen vs. the Short Stacks

Joe McKeehenIt only took a couple of hours and 41 hands total last night — 29 three-handed, 12 heads-up — for Joe McKeehen to claim all the chips and become the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event champion.

McKeehen began play Tuesday night with almost exactly two-thirds of the remaining chips (128,820,000), more than three times nearest challenger Neil Blumenfield (40,125,000) with Josh Beckley (23,700,000) even further behind.

Despite the huge discrepancy in chip stacks, there were still several hands featuring interesting decision points for the three players, providing us one last opportunity to play along and consider how we might have chosen similarly or differently when presented…