WSOP 2015 Results: Winner, Prize Money for Nov. 9 Main Event Finals

The 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event concluded Tuesday evening, and favorite Joe McKeehen prevented two worthy challengers from pulling off a stunner as he solidified his place as a wire-to-wire winner. 

Matched up against amateur Neil Blumenfield and fellow youngster Joshua Beckley, McKeehen stayed true to his game and chipped away at his opponents' substantially smaller stacks en route to a triumph at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. 

PokerNews.com's Donnie Peters provided his take on McKeehen's dominance:     

"When I am in the zone, I am a very good player," McKeehen said prior to the start of the final table, according to TheDailyBeast.com's Michael Kaplan. "Unfortunately, I don't bring my A-game 100 percent of the time. I wish I could."

After McKeehen dispatched Blumenfield, it didn't take much time until Beckley was forced to go all-in. 

The Las Vegas Sun's Case Keefer broke down the tournament's decisive moment: 

On Tuesday, McKeehen was practically perfect with the biggest payday of his life on the line. Along with securing a diamond-encrusted WSOP Main Event bracelet worth $500,000, he snagged the nearly $7.7 million top prize. 

Here's a complete breakdown of the payouts: 

Place	Player	Money
1	Joe McKeehen	$7,683,346
2	Joshua Beckley	$4,470,896
3	Neil Blumenfield	$3,398,298
4	Max Steinberg	$2,615,361
5	Ofer Zvi Stern	$1,911,423
6	Tom Cannuli	$1,426,283
7	Pierre Neuville	$1,203,293
8	Federico Butteroni	$1,097,056
9	Patrick Chan	$1,001,020
10	Alexander Turyansky	$756,897

McKeehen's victory was hardly a surprise. The upstart 24-year-old entered the evening with two-thirds of the chips in his possession, and he never relinquished control.

He wielded $128,825,000 in chips as the final three contenders got Tuesday's action underway. It was a staggering total compared to his competitors. Blumenfield's stack was less than a third of McKeehen's at $40,125,000, while Beckley trotted in with a short stack of $23.7 million. 

Blumenfield didn't wait long to try to challenge McKeehen, but the eventual champion read the amateur and built his chip lead to nearly $144 million just minutes into the homestretch. At that point, the hill was far too steep for Blumenfield to climb. 

David Schoen of the Las Vegas Review-Journal provided an overview of the big swing: 

From there, Blumenfield's pot dwindled to about $14 million before he went all-in with pocket twos against McKeehen's pocket queens. The gamble fell flat, though, as Keefer described: 

At that point, McKeehen and Beckley engaged in a head-to-head duel in which the former boasted $155.6 million in chips compared to his challenger's $37 million, per Keefer.

With just the 25-year-old Beckley standing between McKeehen and the grand prize, it was smooth sailing for the poker world's newest sensation.

But don't expect the massive fortune to alter the way McKeehen carries himself. 

"I don't care about fame, and I'm not thinking about the money," McKeehen told Kaplan prior to the final. "If I win, I probably won't do much with it anyway. My life won't change."

Now that McKeehen has achieved immortality at the end of a lengthy quest that began in July, he can revel in his victory on a national stage and enter next year's Main Event as the man to beat.