Poker Player Profiles: Hoyt Corkins
Hoyt Corkins, also known as ‘the Alabama Cowboy,’ is one of the most regularly appearing professional poker players who ends up ‘going deep’ in national poker tournaments. Hoyt has shown up deep in countless events on the World Poker Tour, the World Series of Poker, the U.S. Championship of Poker and several other televised poker events, thus making him one of the most successful not-quite-superstar poker players around.
Hoyt is known most for his extremely aggressive brand of play, in which he will continually punish any sign of weakness in his opponents to blast his way into winning pots. Often you will see Hoyt firing bullet after bullet even when it seems that he has no way to win the pot. He is the epitome of a pressure player, and this kind of aggression makes him very difficult to combat against especially in online poker, as often you won’t have any idea where you are at. With a player like Hoyt, you often have to pick your spot and go for it.
At the table Hoyt is a rough but amiable presence, sporting a cowboy hat and thick southern accent that make him difficult not to like despite his raw aggression. The epitome of Texas gambler? Maybe. He’s close at least. Either way, not the kind of guy you’d want to run up against at a poker table in the dark, or at an online poker table not knowing it was him you were playing against.
