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Team Bodog poker player Grant Hinkle will be featured in tonight's WSOP broadcast on ESPN. (Bodog Beat Image)

When ESPN continue its coverage of the 2008 WSOP at 8:00pm ET tonight, you will get the chance to see Team Bodog player Grant Hinkle, a 27-year-old marketing manager from Kansas City, Mo., take on a huge and talented field to win a WSOP bracelet and $831,462.

Event No. 2 - $1,500 buy-in No Limit Holdem - drew 3,929 players, the largest non-Main Event field in WSOP history, and among those players were some of the biggest names the poker world has to offer, several of whom made it through to the final table. Hinkle managed to best all of them, including poker pros Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Theo Tran and David Bach, to win his first WSOP bracelet and the first-place prize.

This was just the beginning for Team Bodog, and next week on ESPN you will get the chance to see Team Bodog poker pros David Williams and Justin Bonomo seated side-by-side at the final table for Event No. 4 - $5,000 buy-in Mixed Holdem - which featured 2008 WSOP Player of the Year Erick Lindgren.

From there, and in the upcoming weeks on ESPN, there's Bodog poker pro Jean-Robert Bellande's second place finish in Event No. 54, in which he won $173,564, and fellow Bodog poker pro Evelyn Ng's three WSOP cashes, including an impressive deep run in the Main Event. All together, Team Bodog pros and qualifiers walked away with a combined total of $1,888,629 in winnings from the World Series in Las Vegas.

There are still chances to win a WSOP bracelet this year for yourself and if you want to join Team Bodog at the 2008 WSOP Europe then head over to Bodog Poker and check out how to qualify online for the WSOP Europe.