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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
World Championship Seven Card Stud (Event 14)

Saturday, June 07, 2008 to Monday, June 09, 2008

EVENT #14

Buy-in: $10,000

Prizepool: $1,485,200

Entries: 158

Tpo 12 In The Money

1.Eric Brooks $415,856
2.Fu Wong $259,910
3.Alexander Kostritsyn $163,372
4.Minh Ly $118,816
5.Erik Seidel $92,825
6.Jim Paluszek $74,260
7.David Oppenheim $59,408
8.Vasili Lazarou $48,269
9.Phil Ivey $37,130
10.Thomas Weideman $37,130
11.Daniel Negreanu $33,417
12.Jacobo Fernandez-Hernandez $33,417


Event #14 Is In the Books!

158 players started this $10,000 Seven-Card Stud World Championship. One of the strongest stud fields of all time assembled to try and take down the coveted world title.
Eight players, including two multi bracelet winners, started this final table, but it was an unknown player, Eric Brooks, who took the title.
This is Brooks' first professional cash in a major tournament. Brooks will donate his entire winnings to the Decision Education Foundation, whose mission it is to teach the science of decision making to youth in grades K through 12. At the beginning of this final table, Brooks stated that he was hoping to get lucky. Brooks indeed did get lucky, but he also showed tremendous skill outlasting 157 other opponents and taking home $415,856 and the gold bracelet. Congratulations to Eric Brooks, the 2008 Seven-Card Stud World Champion.