Matt Keikoan Wins 2008 WSOP Event #7
When Matt Keikoan takes his first WSOP bracelet home to San Rafael, California he can tell all his friends that he had to defeat an army of poker players, 1,592 to be exact, to capture the gold. He also picked up $550,529 in cash to go with the new jewelry for his first time at a WSOP final table.
The win was no easy task, having taken 68 hands of heads-up play with Shannon Shorr, an experienced final table poker pro. During the final half hour of heads-up play Matt was in complete control of the table taking Shorr's chips with relative ease until the final all-in came and Matt claimed the victory, the cash and the gold bracelet. Of course, it didn't hurt that Matt's cheering section included some well known players including Gavin Smith. Congratulations to Matt Keirkoan for his win.
