 And yet another not-so-interesting event was about to start. It’s called a World Championship (with 10k buy-in), but it still is Seven Card Stud, not the event I was looking forward to to be honest, and neither were the other players, with only 158 entrants. Although the final table isn’t bad, maybe Erik Seidel can ship his 9th bracelet, or maybe we’ll see David Oppenheim winning his first? Chipleader is Alexander Kostristsyn (say wut?), a 21yo Russian kid who beat the crap out of Erik Seidel in the Aussie Millions, maybe we’ll see some sweet revenge this time? Maybe it could get interesting after all? Ah, well, we’ll see. These are the ones starting the final table:
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
As you can see we started this event with 8 players because those were the rules for this event, unfortunately, otherwise we’d have seen Phil Ivey here as well, he got busted just before the final table at 9th place. Daniel Negreanu was close as well, finishing 11th, but hey, we’ll have to do with these 8.
Anyway, not much interesting stuff going on, a few double-ups and trippleups, a few bustouts, nothing special. Minh Ly gets quads in a 3way pot but doesn’t get any money in the pot because it’s checked down all the way, no bets from the opponents and because it’s a limit-game not much action does evolve. Kostritsyn seems to have the better of Erik Seidel once again, and play goes on in the same dull fashion as we’ve seen before, lots of times one player gets a decent hand, the rest just folds.
I guess I’m not the only one not that fond of Stud: there were about 15 to 20 people in total watching the heads-up! Not many were interested in a Fu Wong vs Eric Brooks fight (lol, that sounds like a scene from a bad Jean-Claude van Damme movie (the word “bad” could have been left out, did he ever make a good movie?  )):
A limit heads-up stage isn’t that exciting to watch, and Stud isn’t the most popular game either, so that doesn’t help either. Eric Brooks was chipleader and there wasn’t much of a comeback in the script for Fu Wong, he got crippled and later knocked out, when he failed to catch a full house against the flush of Eric Brooks. This means Brooks wins his first bracelet (it’s actually his first cash at all), but he doesn’t get a penny from it. He has said he’ll donate all his winnings ($415,856 ) to the Decision Education Foundation (DEF), “whose mission it is to teach the science of decision making to youth in grades K through 12”! You won’t be seeing Brooks in a shiny new Porsche any time soon I guess. Nice gesture man!
This screenshot is taken from the DEF-website. DEF in action:
$415,856 coming their way thanks to Eric Brooks!
Final results:
1st... $415,856 - Eric Brooks
2nd... $259,910 - Fu Wong
3rd... $163,372 - Alexander Kostritsyn
4th... $118,816 - Minh Ly
5th... $92,825 - Erik Seidel
6th... $74,260 - Jim Paluszek
7th... $59,408 - David Oppenheim
8th... $48,269 - Vassilios Lazarou
By: Pindarots
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