Rex Clinkscales has won a WPTDeepStacks Main Event at the third time of asking after taking down the 704-entrant field in the WPTDeepStack Tampa event at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa.

Rex Clinkscales is the latest World Poker Tour (WPT) DeepStacks Main Event champion after taking down the monster field at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Clinkscales is a WPTDeepStack grinder with seven cashes and three final tables under his belt, but he had never won a title before this, and it very nearly didn’t happen.

The Texas native was grinding at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) when he decided to take a break from the Rio and make the trip to Florida to settle into one of his favourite tours.