Gomes is the First Brizilian WSOP Bracelet Holder

Alexandre Gomes has become the first Brazilian to win a World Series of Poker bracelet on Sunday when he took the final table in grand fashion to win Event No. 48, the $2,000 dollar buyin No Limit Texash Hold'em tournament. 

Gomes is 25 and a professional poker player from the largest city in Southern Brazil, Curitiba and up until six months ago he was a practicing attorney but then he quit to concentrate of poker full time.   
 
"I started in just friendly games, started playing online, and I loved the game," Gomes said. "The results came up and that's it, it was my decision to become a poker player."

Gomes hadn't any live tournament results before he entered into Event no. 48 but he does now after he outlasted 2,309 other players to arrive at the final table with just over one million is chips which put him in 4th place on the leader board.

The chip leader at the beginning of the final table was Marco Johnson, a 22 year old online pro with over $350,000 dollars in live tournament earnings.  Gomes' luck began to change when the final table was reduced to five players, he was facing a pre flop raise from chip leader Alan Cutler and Gomes went all in over the top and Cutler called with AQ.

Gomes turned over his 67 and then the flop came with A Q J and these of course weren't helpful for Gomes as he now needed running Spades or sixes or sevens to stay alive.  His large crowd of Brazilian supporters erupted when the turn and the river came 6 6 to double up Gomes.

Cutler was eliminated from the final table on the next hand to another bad beat this time at the hands of Johnson.  Gomes later had 6.7 million chips to Johnson's 2.5 million when they went heads up but Gomes said that after playing against Johnson on both day one and two that he was not looking forward to the heads up match, saying. "I was very worried about [Johnson]," Gomes said.

But he did take out Johnson and became the first ever World Series of Poker bracelet winner from Brazil and pocketed $770,540 dollars.  Surrounded by his friends and supporters, draped in a Brazilian flag, Gomes said of the bracelet and the money, "It's very good. I don't know how to explain it." Gomes said he plans to throw a big party when he gets back to Brazil.