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WSOP 2008 Event #14, $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud
2008 World Series of Poker
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
Official Report
Event # 14
Seven-Card Stud World Championship
Buy-In: $ 10,000
Number of Entries: 158
Number of Re-Buys: NA
Total Net Prize Pool: $ 1,485,200
June 7-9, 2008
Final Results:
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
12 Jacobo Fernandez $33,417 Hollywood Florida
13 Alexander Kravchenko $29,704 Moscow Russia
14 Robert Mizrachi $29,704 Las Vegas Nevada
15 David Levi $25,991 Las Vegas Nevada
16 Michael Fiorito $25,991 Henderson Nevada
Tournament Notes:
The $10,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud World Championship No-Limit Hold’em Shootout attracted a stellar field of 158 players. The total prize pool amounted to $1,485,200. Only the top 16 places were paid.
In general, Seven-Card Stud has been an East Coast game for more than fifty years. While draw poker, lowball, and flop games such as Holdem and Omaha have all enjoyed popularity in other regions of the United States, the most popular poker game spread in casinos in the Northeast from the early 1990s until quite recently was Seven-Card Stud. In fact, Atlantic City and Foxwoods (Connecticut), the two epicenters of the Eastern poker boom about 15 years ago offered more Seven-Card Stud action and higher-limit games than anywhere else in the world. Ten years ago, about 80 percent of the poker games offered in New Jersey and Connecticut were Seven-Card Stud tables. Now, Holdem is more popular.
Artie Cobb holds a WSOP record which may never be broken. Cobb holds four WSOP gold bracelets all in the game of Seven-Card Stud. He earned his victories between 1983 and 1998. Cobb still plays at the WSOP. But he did not enter this event.
Last year champion was Benjamin Lin (Note: He actually won the $5,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud event. However, the buy-in was increased to $10,000 this year for the event). Lin did not enter this tournament.
All 55 WSOP tournaments on the 2008 schedule are categorized as “gold bracelet” events. However, this is also known as a “world championship” event. This means the winner of this event is the Seven-Card Stud world champion. Beginning this year, all $10,000+ buy-in tournaments are designated as official world championships. This means a total of ten WSOP tournaments are world championships. This includes eight gold bracelet tournaments with $10,000 buy-ins, the $50,000 buy-in HORSE event, and the Main Event.
This tournament was played over three consecutive days and nights. Day One lasted about 12 hours. Day Two last about 12 hours. Day Three lasted about five hours. The total duration was about 24 hours (deducting breaks).
Day Two of this event attracted perhaps the largest gallery of the year at this year’s WSOP. Several notable poker superstars including Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, and others guaranteed that viewing space would be tight. Poker fans lined the rails and stayed positioned about the dwindling tables until 3 am, when the final eight players had finally been determined.
There was considerable interest in this tournament from many players in the tournament room. Phil Ivey had reportedly wagered millions of dollars on himself that he will win a WSOP gold bracelet this year. Many top pros bet against Ivey, not doubting his talent necessarily as much as differing with Ivey as to his real chances of victory (Note: Ivey is said to have settled on a 1:1.8 payout in his favor). Ivey had a big stack when play went to two tables. But he busted out in ninth place, and many poker players breathed a sigh of relief.
Another note on the Phil Ivey wager: Seven-Card Stud is perhaps Ivey’s best poker game and with the smaller field, his detractors were most fearful he would win this event (or the Deuce-to-Seven tournament).
This was the most top-heavy payout list of the year, thus far. Of the 16 players who cashed in this tournament, seven have won WSOP gold bracelets.
In what must be considered a monumental upset, the winner of this event was Eric Brooks, from Bryn Mawr, PA. This was not only Brooks’ first time ever to cash at the WSOP, it was also his first cash in a major poker tournament (anywhere).
Brooks is a 48-year-old business owner. He is married and has two children.
Brooks collected $415,856 for first place. He also earned his first WSOP gold bracelet.
Incredibly, Brooks announced that he will donate the entire cash prize to a non-profit charity called the Decision Education Foundation. He make the following remarks in a post-tournament interview:
The second-place finisher was Fu Wong, a.k.a. “The Grasshopper.” The poker pro originally from China who now lives in Chandler, AZ collected $259,910.
High-stakes cash game player Minh Ly finished fourth. Ly has yet to win a WSOP gold bracelet despite having ten career cashes.
Erik Seidel won his eighth gold bracelet last year. His bid for number nine fell short as Seidel was never able to accumulate chips late in the tournament. He ended up fifth, which marked his 52nd career WSOP cash. This also marks Seidel’s eighth consecutive year to cash multiple times at the WSOP in a single year.
Greek-born two-time gold bracelet winner Vasili Lazarou finished eighth.
WSOP 2008 Event #14, $1,500 Seven Card Stud
2008 World Series of Poker
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
Official Report
Event # 35
Seven-Card Stud
Buy-In: $ 1,500
Number of Entries: 381
Number of Re-Buys: NA
Total Net Prize Pool: $ 520,065
June 18-20, 2008
Final Results:
1 Michael Rocco $135,753 Las Vegas Nevada
2 Al Barbieri $83,210 Philadelphia Pennsylvania
3 Levon Torosyan $50,186 Los Angeles California
4 Max Troy $37,184 Los Angeles California
5 Giacomo Dagostino $28,083 North Providence Rhode Island
6 Danny Kalpakis $21,842 Ajax Ontario, Canada
7 Andre Boyer $16,642 Acton Vale Quebec, Canada
8 Jeffrey Siegal $14,041 Daly City California
9 Charles Moore $11,441 Bossier City Louisiana
10 Roy Rose $11,441 Hollywood Florida
11 Bryan Devonshire $8,841 Henderson Nevada
12 Sabyl Cohen Landrum $8,841 Folsom California
13 Greg Pappas $6,240 Las Vegas Nevada
14 Christopher Tryba $6,240 North Las Vegas Nevada
15 Christopher Mcintyre $4,680 New London Connecticut
16 Chad Brown $4,680 Margate Florida
Tournament Notes:
The $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud championship attracted 381 entries, creating a prize pool totaling $520,065. The top 40 finishers (final five tables) collected prize money.
Last year Michael Keiner, from Germany, played in this event. But he did not cash. This brings the current streak to 35 straight non-cashes for defending champions in their respective events.
The 2008 $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud champion is Mike Rocco, from Las Vegas, NV. He is a 48-year-old professional poker player, who by his own admission has been going through some rough times lately. Rocco was born in Cleveland, OH.
Incredibly, Rocco won his way into this event by winning a $215 single-table satellite.
Rocco collected $135,753 for first place. He also earned his first WSOP gold bracelet.
Rocco has been playing professionally since 1997. He mostly concentrates on middle limit cash games in the Los Angeles area. Rocco prefers Seven-Card Stud to Hold’em and for that reason tends to play more in California, where there is more Seven-Card Stud action.
Rocco first came to Las Vegas in the early 1980s. He began working as a blackjack dealer at the Dunes Casino and Hotel (the site where the Bellagio now stands).
The second-place finisher was Al Barbieri, a.k.a. “Sugar Bear.” Barbieri is a heavy sports gambler. His poker mentor is three-time WSOP gold bracelet winner John Bonetti.
The final table lasted nearly nine hours. The heads-up match went for about three hours.
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