From a Car Crash to the 2008 World Series of Poker

Such is the life of one Donald Hobbs.

While the best poker players in the world continue to get their feet wet in the 2008 World Series of Poker, one guy is about to join in on the fray. And while the rest of the field are going for a WSOP bracelet, this guy may have already won something bigger.

I'm talking about Donald Hobbs, the 24-year-old poker player who'll be making his debut for the biggest poker tournament of the year this Sunday. You see, this guy came out alive from a horrible car crash last year. And while the doctors then gave him almost impossible odds of survival, he did survive and now, he's ready to defy the odds again, at the 2008 WSOP.

''The doctors gave me a million-to-one shot of surviving,'' Donald Hobbs said. His brother Dewayne, remembered that in describing Donald's chances for survival, the doctors used the word ''impossible'' more than once.

Hobbs remembers the accident just barely. ''I don't remember much about it. I remember getting in that car, the car hitting that curve and then crashing.''

''I pulled myself out of the car and hit the ground. Some guy came by and dragged me away from the burning car. Last I remember I was talking to the ambulance driver, getting flown out to the hospital.''

Dewayne couldn't even imagine what his brother was able to accomplish.

''I'm in perfect shape, and the doctors told me I wouldn't survive what he went through,'' Dewayne Hobbs said. ''With him having the hemophilia, they told me it was impossible he'd survive, but I prayed and prayed and prayed. One of those prayers must have got through.''

Hemophilia is a disease that leaves the afflicted's blood less capable of clotting. Hemophiliacs bruise easily and their cuts bleed long contact. When bleeding spreads to the joints, it can cause a whole lot of pain.

Now that Donald has been able to accomplish the impossible, I guess winning a WSOP bracelet in the 2008 WSOP won't be that hard for this guy eh?

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Doyle Brunson 6.50

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Phil Hellmuth 5.50

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