It was history in the making on Day 16 of the 2008 World Series of Poker as online pro Blair "blur5f6" Hinkle and brother Grant sought to do what no other pair of siblings have ever done at the WSOP.

Almost two weeks ago, Grant Hinkle defeated James Akenhead in heads-up play to capture his first WSOP bracelet in Event 2, the first $1,500 No Limit Hold'em tournament of the Series. Hinkle, a marketing professional from Missouri, took $831,279 for an accomplishment many had figured would be younger brother Blair's for the taking.

On Saturday, Blair Hinkle took to the felt in the final table of Event 23, the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em tournament. Hinkle came in second in chips behind Aussie Andrew Jeffreys and watched Dustin Dirksen rack up a substantial lead through some aggressive play early.

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With five players left, however, Hinkle was able to put the brakes on Dirksen's run, busting the boy with A-8 to the Double D's A-2 and taking over the chip lead with almost a 2:1 lead on second-place David Steicke.

Hinkle would send Steicke to the rail in fourth place with a flopped two pair against his rival's ten-high flush draw and then set to work destroying Daniel O'Brien and Mark Brockington, who found themselves micro-stacked against Hinkle's behemouth.

O'Brien would fall in third place after getting it all-in with a pocket pair of eights against blur5f6's pocket sixes. The crowd stood and exhorted the dealer into making the suckout happen and as though it were the will of the mob, the flop brought a six and the Cloven-Hoofed Set.

O'Brien couldn't recover and was eliminated in third place, taking home $198,132 for his time.

Devil's Playground!

That left only Brockington to be dealt with and Hinkle wasted no time in clearing the decks, getting Brockington to commit his short stack with A♦ K♠ in a race situation against Hinkle, who again wielded those pocket sixes.

Once again, the dealer produced a six on the flop and though Brockington flopped an ace to complement, he could get no closer and after turn and river bricked the tournament was over and the bracelet belonged to the Blur.

Hinkle takes home $507,563 for his first place finish, as well as that jewelry and an exclusive PokerListings.com interview. He and brother Grant become the first siblings to win bracelets in the same World Series of Poker, as well as only the second pair of brothers (behind J.C. and Puggy Pearson) to accomplish the feat.

While the Hinkles were making history, Full Tilt Poker was continuing its strong WSOP as another of its sponsored pros was taking down a bracelet.

Go Fish!

Max Pescatori won his first WSOP bracelet in 2006 - on the same day that his Italian countrymen were winning football's World Cup. There would be no corresponding success on the pitch for the Italians on Saturday, but it didn't look like the Pirate needed it as he played out the $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha/Hold'em Mixed event.

Joining Pescatori at the final table when action kicked off at 3 p.m. on Saturday were fellow pros Minh Ly and Allen Cunningham, although Ly would bow early, busting in eighth for $30,482 after being crippled when he lost a race with jacks against Jonathan Depa's Big Slick.

Cunningham, in search of his sixth WSOP bracelet, would make it stick until four players remained before finding himself crippled in a large pot against Max Pescatori and then all-in with J-9-7-2 against Kyle Kloeckner's A-A-10-3.

The flop brought a set of aces for Kloeckner and Cunningham could not recover, busting in fourth place and taking $76,205 for the loss.

Greg Hurst would go broke in third place, setting up a heads-up battle between Pescatori and Kloeckner that began with the Pirate holding a slight chip lead. It wouldn't take more than an hour, however, for Pescatori to gobble up the rest of the chips at the table, winning a few big pots early in the heads-up match and then grinding his opponent down to the gristle with relative ease.

The final hand saw Kloeckner get all-in on a K-J-3-2 board holding J-10-10-2 to Pescatori's K-J-8-7. The river card brought a deuce and Pescatori's kings-up were good enough to take the title. Mad Max earns $246,471 and his second WSOP bracelet along with this exclusive PokerListings.com interview.

Elsewhere, it was Day 2 of the $10,000 World Championship Heads-Up No Limit Hold'em tournament and the field played down to the final four, with Vanessa Selbst personally eliminating two Mizrachi brothers in her quest to best last year's fourth place finish and perhaps claim her second bracelet of the 2008 WSOP.

Also playing down to the final table was Event 26, the $1,500 Seven Card Razz event. 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom Schneider finished tenth, just barely missing the final table, but his absence will be filled by the likes of Barry Greenstein and Archie "The Greek" Karas, who is having something of a resurgence at this year's Dub-Sop.

Playing out their first days were the weekly $1,500 NLHE donkament, which gathered a field of 2,706 and reduced it to 224 by day's end (Bernard Lee is chipleader with $167,000) and Event 28, the spectacle that is the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha w/Rebuys tournament. The latter attracted 152 players and 483 rebuys and managed to reduce the field to 56 by day's end. Emmanuel Sebag and David Benyamine are at the top of the chip leaderboard.

Check out our live tournament page for everything this recap may have missed and peep our stylish blogs for a sense of what's really good at the Rio. And then get off that railbird tip and get into the game. It's like a license to print money out here!