2008 WSOP winner gives all his winnings to charity
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Eric Brooks announced after winning Event 14, the $10,000 World Championship of Seven-Card Stud, that his entire first-place check of $415,856 would be going to charity.
He gave the money to The Decision Education Foundation, a charity based in Palo Alto, California that instructs kids from kindergarten through to 12th grade in the fine art of better decision making, according to a press release from PokerListings.com:
“I’m on the board of directors - actually Annie Duke is also on the board - and essentially what we do is work with schools and teachers instructing the science of decision making, which is something that has been taught since the early 1960s and 1970s at the university level,” Brooks said. “We’re working with schools integrating the science of decision making and decision analytics so kids can grow up to be really good decision makers whether they are playing poker or deciding what they want to do with their life.”
