LaCourse wins the oldtimers (seniors) event

It was really surprising to see how much energy those people have at the poker table, despite their age!
One thing we can't deny: some of these people got an insane amount of poker experience! Thats why it was a real achievement to win Event #42 of World Series of Poker 2008, which was the $1,000 Seniors No-limit Hold'em World Championship!

Buy-in was quite low for a event with a 'championship' name in it, just $1,000 . However, 2,218 entrants made the prize pool reach $2,018,380 , so there was more than enough cash to fight for.

Final table at the beginning:

Seat 1: Marc Fluss - 873,000
Seat 2: Charles Wood - 531,000
Seat 3: Ed Clark - 504,000
Seat 4: Marty Wilson - 454,000
Seat 5: Peter Silverstein - 435,000
Seat 6: Dale Eberle - 1,414,000
Seat 7: Fred Berger - 518,000
Seat 8: Dan LaCourse - 1,364,000
Seat 9: Jerry Yamachika - 558,000

After few eliminations the remaining two players started heads-up: Dan LaCourse had the advantage over Dale Eberle, as he had 4,100,000 chips against 2,500,000 from his opponent.
On the final hand Eberle raised preflop and LaCourse made the call. Flop brings and Lacourse being oop goes for check / call. Turn rolls out a blank , and Lacourse checks again just to face yet another bet from Eberle. Call? Not this time, he moved all-in! After some stalling Eberle made the call with for top pair, but unfortunetaly he was against from LaCourse. King, king, and only a king could help Eberle on the river as he was dominated. Not this time, river is a blank and we have our champion, Dan Lacourse who collects $368,832 and the gold bracelet!

Final results:

1. Dan Lacourse $368,832
2. Dale Eberle $235,141
3. Marc Fluss $156,424
4. Jerry Yamachika $131,194
5. Fred Berger $106,974
6. Charles Wood $84,771
7. Peter Silverstein $64,588
8. Ed Clark $49,450
9. Martyn Wilson $34,312

By: Defrag