Hawkins Double Starting Stack
Maurice Hawkins just won a nice pot to push his stack to about 40,000 in chips and that's double the starting mount. Hawkins likes to play a good amount of pots and is a chatty one at the table. The pot we watched him drag came when he made a spade flush holding the 
against his opponent's broadway straight with the 
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Hawkins is a grinder from Florida who can regularly be seen along the circuit. He's got over $400,000 in career earnings, but no major titles just yet. Hawkins is friends with Dwyte Pilgrim and is much like him in a way. Hawkins holds three World Series of Poker Circuit gold rings and a few other titles from smaller buy-in events. His largest cash came from a win in a Venetian Deep Stack event in 2009 for over $67,000. Much like Pilgrim was before his big World Poker Tour win, Hawkins is known as a minor-leaguer, but that could all change if he can notch a major title.