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Who would have guessed that Bryn Mawr is fast becoming a poker hotbed?

For the second straight year, the upscale Main Line suburb has produced a big-money winner in the World Series of Poker.

Businessman Eric Brooks, a cofounder and former director of the investing powerhouse Susquehanna International Group, collected $415,856 and a champion’s gold bracelet from a Las Vegas seven-card stud table Monday.

Last year, Beth Shak of Bryn Mawr finished second in the no-limit hold ‘em category of the poker series, taking back to the Main Line $328,683 in prize money.

However, Brooks’ purse won’t be coming home with him.

He is donating the whole sum to a California educational charity where he is a longtime board member. The Decision Education Foundation is a Stanford University-affiliated nonprofit focused on teaching children at places including the Haverford School about how good choices are made.

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Bryn Mawr holds hot hand in poker championship | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/12/2008

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