WSOP Event No. 14 Winner Eric Brooks

Event No. 14 of the World Series of Poker was a $10,000 buyin Seven Card Stud World Championship event that got under way on June 7th and finished with a winner on June 9th.  The tournament drew in 158 players to try for the first place win that includes cash, WSOP gold bracelet and a World Championship title.

The prize pool for the event was $1,485,200 dollars and only the top 16 finishers would see some of the cash.  There is a record at the WSOP for this event that may never be broken.  Artie Cobb currently holds the WSOP record holding four Gold bracelets all for winning in the Seven Card Stud event.  He earned these victories all between 1983 and 1988.

The winner of Event No. 14 was Eric Brooks from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.  He is a 48 year old businessman that with this win also got his first ever cash at the WSOP and his first cash in a major poker tournament.  Also noteworthy of the 16 players that cashed in the tournament seven of them are WSOP gold bracelet holders.

Eric Broos won $415,856 dollars and his fist WSOP gold bracelet for his first place finish followed by Fu Wong who took home $259.910 dollars for taking second place.  The final table results of Event No. 14 are below.

1 Eric Brooks  $415,856    Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
2 Fu Wong  $259,910   Chandler, Arizona
3 Alexander Kostritsyn  $163,372   Moscow, Russia
4 Minh Ly  $118,816  Las Vegas, Nevada
5 Erik Seidel  $92,825   Las Vegas, Nevada
6 Jim Paluszek  $74,260   Bensalem, Pennsylvania
7 David Oppenheim  $59,408   Las Vegas, Nevada
8  Vassilios Lazarou  $48,269   Las Vegas, Nevada
9  Phil Ivey  $37,130   Las Vegas, Nevada
10 Thomas Weideman  $37,130   Fair Oaks, California
11  Daniel Negreanu  $33,417  Las Vegas, Nevada