Event 14 - $10,000 Seven-Card Stud World Championship
Day 3 Completed
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 14 - $10,000 Seven-Card Stud World Championship
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,485,200
Entries
158
Level
24
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
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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.
He worked his way quietly through the final table and came back after starting the heads-up battle with a chip deficit.
Brooks has shown class and professionalism throughout this whole tournament, and as we reported earlier today, he will be putting the money to good use.
Congratulations Eric on winning $415,856 and the coveted WSOP bracelet!
and Fu Wong completed showing the 
. Brooks then raised and Wong called.On 4th street Wong checked with the
and Brooks fired a bet after catching the 
. Wong then raised, and Brooks reraised, Wong made the call for the last of his chips.Brooks: (
) Wong: (
) On 5th street Brooks hit an ace to extend his lead and leaving Wong needing to hit one of the two remaining fours.
Brooks: (
) 
Wong: (
) 
Right on cue as the railbirds called “four!”, Wong got his miracle on 6th street:
Brooks: (
) 
Wong: (
) 
“No diamond!” came the cry from Wong as Brooks turned over his final card. “Oh my god!” exclaimed Wong as Brooks showed the
for the running flush. Wong would need a pair on the river to make a full house or better to stay alive, but was dismayed as he flipped the 
. The final boards were:Brooks: (
) ()Wong: (
) ()Fu Wong is eliminated in 2nd place collecting $259,910 for a wonderful tournament.
After the hand Wong is down to 150,000 chips.
and Brooks was showing 
. Brooks asked Wong, "Do you have anything?" Wong replied, "Flush Draw. Big Flush Draw."On sixth Wong caught the
and bet. Brooks, who caught the 
, made the call. On the river Fu Wong bet out at Brooks and after a moment, Brooks made the call and turned over (
) for two pair. Wong only showed a pair of kings.After the hand, Wong is down to 475,000 chips.
Naturally, part of the reason for lack of interest may be due to the lack of a famous face playing heads up for the bracelet. The other reason is just the difference in popularity. Seven-Card Stud is a game that most people consider a dying game and as such it doesn’t get the publicity of No-Limit. The fact that it is a limit game doesn’t help its cause either.
If you look around at this crowd, you won't see a bored spectator in the stands. For Stud enthusiast, Seven-Card Stud can be just as interesting, if not more so, than Texas Hold'em.
Eric Brooks: 2,160,000
but Brooks wasn’t going anywhere, calling him down to take the pot holding (
) 
for two pair.In the very next hand there was some interesting betting as both players tried to steal the pot away from their opponents.
On 4th street, Brooks bet, Wong raised, and Brooks called.
On 5th street, Wong bet, Brooks raised, and Wong called.
On 6th street, Brooks bet, Wong raised, and Brooks called.
Finally on 7th street, Wong fired out again and Brooks made the call.
Wong tapped the table as the boards were as follows:
Wong:
Brooks: (
) 
Amazingly with such action Brooks had called Wong down with just a pair of kings as Wong mucked his cards giving Brooks a monstrous pot and the chip lead!