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Would you like to be a millionaire over night?

Check out the winnings at LA Poker classic.

1st: Gregory Brooks – $1,654,120
2nd: Vivek Rajkumar – $908,730
3rd: Carlos Mortensen – $640,680
4th: Amir Lehavot – $421,680
5th: Steve Gross – $304,000
6th: Darryll Fish – $235,350

And remember those are US dollars.

This is the article from the official WPT site describing how Gregory Brooks came through as a rookie and won.

When the LA Poker Classic final table began, poker fans were pretty divided between those who believed Carlos Mortensen would pick up his record fourth title and those who believed Vivek Rajkumar would breeze thru the final table en route to a second win. Those people didn’t count on Gregory Brooks.
It took three hands for Brooks to take the chip lead at this final table and, for the next 93, he maintained his spot as one of the big stacks at the table. The 23 year-old New Jersey native may have been a WPT rookie surrounded by seasoned vets, but confidence and a little good old patriotism served him well at this stacked final table. With a crowd of friends and family decked out in red, white and blue to cheer him on in his first-ever WPT event, Brooks used his aggressive style to upset the vets and become the latest WPT-made millionaire.
Many predicted the deep stacks would result in a long final table, but it took just three hands for the carnage to begin. Brooks jumped to the chip lead early when a cooler of a hand saw him get it all-in against Rajkumar holding pocket aces to Rajkumar’s pocket queens. The aces held and Brooks only built on his momentum from there.
While it was smooth sailing for Brooks, it was rough waters for Rajkumar, as he found himself all-in with the best of it against Steve Gross on two separate occasions, only to chop the pot once and double Gross up in the other.

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