{"id":35752,"date":"2026-06-10T18:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/?p=35752"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:24:28","slug":"brent-gregory-denies-world-series-of-poker-circuit-king-maurice-hawkins-first-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/brent-gregory-denies-world-series-of-poker-circuit-king-maurice-hawkins-first-bracelet\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Gregory Denies World Series of Poker Circuit King Maurice Hawkins’ First Bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When it comes to winning World Series of Poker Circuit events, no one is better than Maurice Hawkins. His 25 rings puts him on top of the all-time list, but he yet to win a piece of hardware he could put on his wrist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brent Gregory outlasted 671 to win his first WSOP bracelet, deny Maurice Hawkins his first. (Image: WSOP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hawkins was again denied his first WSOP bracelet in the $600 NLH\/PLO event that pulled in 671 entrants. Kenneth Gregory was the man who stood in Hawkins’ way this time, winning his first bracelet and $204,140. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The win pushed Gregory, who is known better as Brent, close to the $1 million mark<\/a> in lifetime cashes. His biggest cash before this was for $120,000 he got for finishing runner-up in the WSOP Tournament of Championship freeroll in 2023. He found his seat into the $1 million freeroll by winning his only WSOP Circuit ring in Tulsa that year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the event only cost $600, the final table was insanely tough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Reichard is another WSOP Circuit pro with 17 wins under his belt. Like Hawkins, he’s searching for his first bracelet. He finished third for $99,831. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fourth was John Ghosn, who claimed a career-best $73,984. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

High-stakes superstar Alex Foxen exited in fifth for $55,305 — or a normal buy-in to the tournaments he prefers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Holley finished sixth for $41,703, and Kelly Mahana seventh for $31,724. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first person knocked off the final table was none-other than Daniel Negreanu ($23,347). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawkins began three-handed play holding half the chips in. Once Richard was eliminated, Gregory would require a couple double-ups in order to stop what looked like a sure Hawkins’ victory, but nothing is certain in poker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to WSOP’s website<\/a>, which isn’t always entirely accurate, especially since GGPoker took over last year, Hawkins made 104 final tables in WSOP events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only five of those happened in bracelet events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to winning World Series of Poker Circuit events, no one is better than Maurice Hawkins. His 25 rings puts him on top of the all-time list, but he yet to win a piece of hardware he could put on his wrist. Hawkins was again denied his first WSOP bracelet in the $600 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":35753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,529,7421,499,7415,535,501,523],"tags":[573],"vertical":[],"class_list":["post-35752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-buzz","category-poker-buzz","category-poker","category-poker-news","category-tournament-schedules","category-poker-tournaments","category-wsop-news","tag-wsop"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":35752},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0560b0ce8ace-kenneth-brent-gregorywsop26travis-ball8664lr-600x400.webp","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0560b0ce8ace-kenneth-brent-gregorywsop26travis-ball8664lr-600x600.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"Bob Pajich","author_link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/author\/bob-pajich\/"},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35752"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=35752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}