WSOP #14 7Cardstud 10.000 $ [winner Eric Brooks ]

158 joueurs se sont inscrits à cette épreuve, et 80 ont survécu au day 1

Alexander Kostritsyn 121100
Barry Mullinax 103300
Michael Fiorito 101900
Chad Brown PokerStars 89100
Daniel Negreanu PokerStars 79700
Ralph Perry 76100
Cyndi Violette 70300
Vassilios Lazarou 69400
Eric Brooks 62100
Thomas Weideman 62100
Rolf Slotboom T6Poker 61500
Scott Fischman Full Tilt Poker 58400
Robert Zipf 58300
Erik Seidel Full Tilt Poker 57400
Andy Bloch Full Tilt Poker 56300
Barbara Lewis 55800
Archie Karas 54700
Brian Lieberman 54600
Alex Kravchenko PokerStars 54500
Matt Hawrilenko 54400
Alan Boston Full Tilt Poker 54000
Grant Pittman 50300
Greg Raymer PokerStars 50300
Fu Wong 50000
David Benyamine Full Tilt Poker 49800
Jim Paluszek 49500
George Lind 47600
Minh Ly 47500
Phil Ivey Full Tilt Poker 46500
Nick Schulman Full Tilt Poker 46200
Gerard Rechnitzer 45800
David Levi 45500
David Moskowitz 45200
David Williams Bodog 45100
Scotty Nguyen 45000
Bill Chen PokerStars 41300
Cory Zeidman 40800
Men Nguyen 40100
Shawn Sheikhan 38200
Farshad Cohen 37600
Steve Zolotow Full Tilt Poker 36700
Larry Kantor 35300
Jacobo Fernandez 34700
Ben Sabrin 34500
Todd Barlow 34100
Katja Thater PokerStars 33000
Maureen Feduniak 32600
Dario Minieri PokerStars 31300
Kia Hooshmand 29300
Shannon Elizabeth Doyles Room 27800
Toto Leonidas Full Tilt Poker 27000
Dario Alioto 26000
Pawel Andrzejewski 25000
Carlos Mortensen 24600
Greg Mascio 23600
Yuebin Guo 22600
Ronald Maset 22000
Annie Duke Ultimate Bet 21100
Keith Sexton 21000
Scott Epstein 20800
Roger Smith 20200
Steve Conigliaro 19600
David Oppenheim Full Tilt Poker 19200
Randall Skaggs 16800
Doyle Brunson Doyles Room 16300
Jordan Rich 15800
Bob Feduniak 15400
Mickey Appleman 14400
Robert Mizrachi Full Tilt Poker 14200
Hoyt Corkins 11700
Eric Buchanan 10800
Doug Keller 10700
Tom McCormick 9700
Chris Reslock 8000
Becki Vincent 5500
Farhad Mobassery 3500
John Duthie PokerStars 2500
Tony G 2350
Raymond Lamoreaux 700

Voic les heureux élus de la table finale

Seat 1: David Oppenheim (Las Vegas, Nevada) 508,000
Seat 2: Alexander Kostritsyn (Moscow, Russia) 495,000
Seat 3: Jim Paluszek (Bensalem, Pennslyvania) 413,000
Seat 4: Erik Seidel (Las Vegas, Nevada) 273,000
Seat 5: Vassilios Lazarou (Las Vegas, Nevada) 259,000
Seat 6: Minh Ly (Las Vegas, Nevada) 424,000
Seat 7: Fu Wong (Chandler, Arizona) 429,000
Seat 8: Eric Brooks (Bryn Mawr, Pennslyvania) 359,000

et l'ensemble des payés

9 $ 37,130 Phil Ivey Full Tilt Poker
10 $ 37,130 Thomas Weideman
11 $ 33,417 Daniel Negreanu PokerStars
12 $ 33,417 Jacobo Fernandez
13 $ 29,704 Alex Kravchenko
14 $ 29,704 Robert Mizrachi Full Tilt Poker
15 $ 25,991 David Levi
16 $ 25,991 Michael Fiorito

158 joueurs seulement, mais énormément de noms connus.

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voici le classement final de l'épreuve

1 $ 415,856 Eric Brooks
2 $ 259,910 Fu Wong
3 $ 163,372 Alexander Kostritsyn
4 $ 118,816 Minh Ly
5 $ 92,825 Erik Seidel Full Tilt Poker
6 $ 74,260 Jim Paluszek
7 $ 59,408 David Oppenheim Full Tilt Poker
8 $ 48,269 Vassilios Lazarou
9 $ 37,130 Phil Ivey Full Tilt Poker
10 $ 37,130 Thomas Weideman
11 $ 33,417 Daniel Negreanu PokerStars
12 $ 33,417 Jacobo Fernandez
13 $ 29,704 Alex Kravchenko
14 $ 29,704 Robert Mizrachi Full Tilt Poker
15 $ 25,991 David Levi
16 $ 25,991 Michael Fiorito

Citation :

2008 WSOP Event #14, $10,000 Stud Championship Final: Brooks and Students Win


Tuesday, June 10, 2008

By Duncan "Pumper" Bell started the day wit



When
the $10,000 Stud Championship event began with 158 players, it looked
like a "Who's Who" of professional poker. But Pennsylvania native Eric
Brooks, a relative unknown, would walk away with the bracelet and
$415,856. Brooks will donate his entire winnings to the Decision
Education Foundation, whose mission is to teach the science of decision
making to students in grades K-12. When poker's popularity
exploded, the "Cinderella" phenomenon became a well-known fixture of
major NLHE events. For years, people watched for an indication that
poker's growth would have a positive spillover effect on poker's other
legacy games. For those that anxiously waited for poker's rising tide
to lift all boats, Brooks' win, along with Anthony Rivera's victory a
few days earlier in the $10,000 Mixed Event, will be interpreted as
another optimistic sign. But positive sign or not, Brooks' path
to the bracelet was hard fought as he started the final table as one of
the shorter stacks against formidable opposition. The starting final
table chip counts follow: David Oppenheim 508,000
Alexander Kostritsyn 495,000
Fu Wong 429,000
Minh Ly 424,000
Jim Paluszek 413,000
Eric Brooks 359,000
Erik Seidel 273,000
Vassilios Lazarou 259,000 David
Oppenheim lead into the final table, but was crippled early. What
started out as an interesting three-way hand quickly changed to serious
two-way action when Oppenheim's check-raise on fifth street was
answered by Alexander Kostritsyn's reraise. Oppenheim had A-Q-5-6
showing but Kostritsyn would take the fortune-reversing pot with jacks
over queens for the boat. Oppenheim battled back and, in fact,
eliminated the first player of the final table. Vassilios Lazarou
entered the final table as the short stack and committed the last of
his chips on third street. He couldn't have been happy to discover he
was up against Oppenheim's rolled-up deuces. A hand never materialized
for Lazarou and he was eliminated in eighth place for $48,269. But
Oppenheim's reprieve was short-lived and his wild final table ride came
to an end, soon after. In a hand where Kostritsyn showed trip fives,
made on seventh street, Oppenheim tapped the table and left in seventh
place for $59,408. Jim Paluszek then lost a huge hand to Fu
Wong's ace-high flush. Kostritsyn would take the rest of Paluszek;s
stack with tens up. Paluszek was eliminated in sixth place for $74,260.
Erik Seidel and Kostritsyn also had a series of skirmishes, with Seidel
getting the worst of it. This was not the first time that Seidel and
Kostritsyn tangled at a final table. In fact both players spent the
entire 2008 Aussie Millions final table together. At the end of that
contest, Kostritsyn would prevail. However, Seidel's fifth-place
elimination here put to bed any hopes of a heads-up rematch. Seidel was
all in on third street with fives in the hole, facing Ly's split aces.
By seventh street, nothing had changed. Siedel received $92,825 for
fifth. Keeping up with Minh Ly's chip count at any time during
this contest must have been a daunting task. Ly played a lot of hands,
overcoming each defeat with spectacular double-ups. Ly's rollercoaster
ride finally came to an end when his wired eights faced off against
Kostritsyn's wired nines. Ly didn't improve while Kostritsyn eventually
constructed a straight. Minh Ly finished in fourth place for $118,816. Alexander
Kostritsyn was this event's Day One chip leader and he played a strong
tournament from start to finish. Unfortunately for Kostritsyn, his
finish was to be in third place, just shy of the bracelet. All the
money was in on fifth street with Kostritsyn holding (K-4) 4-K-3 to
Brooks' (A-8) 7-A-7. Kostritsyn failed to improve and took home
$163,372 for his third-place performance. Going into heads-up
play, Fu Wong had Brooks at a slight disadvantage; 1,815,000 to
1,345,000. Wong pushed the advantage, taking the first few pots of the
early action. But Brooks was going to get back all those chips and
more. In a final-table pivoting point, Kostritsyn couldn't
believe that Wong had called a hand all the way to seventh street just
holding a pair of aces. Wong took that hand, besting Kostritsyn's
jacks. In heads-up play it was Wong's turn to be surprised when Brooks
called him all the way to seventh street, armed only with a pair of
kings. The hand would give Brooks a 2-to-1 chip lead – a lead he would
never surrender. On the final hand all the money went in on fourth street. And so began the dramatic final hand: Brooks: ()– leading pair of fives
Wong: ()Brooks: ()– leading aces up
Wong: ()Brooks: ()
Wong: ()– leading trip fours Brooks: ()– winning flush
Wong: ()Fu
Wong was eliminated in second place, collecting $259,910, while Brooks,
and his students, will now enjoy the fruits of his win.

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