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2009 WSOP
Event #55 - $2,500 Buy-in Deuce to Seven Triple Lowball Limit. Final Results. 2009 World Series of Poker Results

2009 World Series of Poker Results
Event #55 - Deuce to Seven
Triple Lowball (Limit)
World Series of Poker (WSOP) Results
2009 World Series of Poker - Event #55 Results
2009 World Series of Poker        
Final Results        
Event # 55
Buy In:  $2,500
Date:  7/1/2009
Game:  2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)
Number of Entries:  258
Net Prize Pool:  $593,400
First Place Prize:  165,513.00
Players to Cash:  24
Abe Mosseri
Final Results:
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Hometown
Prize
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2009 World Series of Poker Schedule and Results
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Mosseri, Abe
Tanaka, Masayoshi
Schneider, Julie
Juanda, John
Rodman, Blair
Libson, Brad
Lord, Kris
Zalewski, Hertzel
Le, Nam
Fernandez, Jacobo
Hedlund, Peter
Rodriguez, Miguel
Quach, Daniel
Morrow, Joseph
Sarkeshik, Ali
Negreanu, Daniel
Fisler, Ryan
Habib, Hasan
Ewenstein, Adam
Ankenman, Jerrod
Sitar, Dustin
Smith, Justin
Corpuz, Martin
Ogrady, Michael
New York, NY
Kanagawa, Japan
Mesa, AZ
Las Vegas, NV
Rancho Mirage, CA
Annapolis, MD
Palm Harbor, FL
Houston, TX
Huntington Bch., CA
Hollywood, FL
 
Madrid , Spain
  
Mason, OH
Northampton, UK
Las Vegas, NV
Kincardine, Canada
Downey, CA
Brookline, MA
Avon, CT
Las Vegas, NV
Kissimmee, FL
Mountain View, CA
New York, NY
$165,513
$102,313
$66,286
$44,941
$31,819
$23,484
$17,934
$17,934
$13,424
$13,424
$9,901
$9,901
$7,223
$7,223
$7,223
$7,223
$7,223
$7,223
$5,148
$5,148
$5,148
$5,148
$5,148
$5,148
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Tournament Highlights:

Event Headlines –

1.  Abe Mosseri Wins His First WSOP Gold Bracelet

2.  New York City Poker Player Takes Lowball Event

3.  Masayoshi Tanaka Just Misses Becoming First Japanese WSOP Gold Bracelet Winner in
History – Finishes Second

4.  Another WSOP Attendance Record is Broken:  Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Generates
Largest Turnout in Its History


The Champion --

The 2009 World Series of Poker $2,500 buy-in Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)
champion is Abe Mosseri, from New York, NY.

Mosseri is a 36-year-old professional poker player.

Mosseri started out as a backgammon player.  He also played gin rummy for money in clubs
in New York.  

Mosseri began playing poker seriously as backgammon declined in popularity and as poker
became the new phenomenon.  He noted that several backgammon players have converted
to become serious poker players.

Mosseri enjoys playing basketball and going to movies in his spare time.  He also enjoys
various forms of gambling.

Mosseri plays poker mostly online.

Mosseri collected $166,151 for first place.  He was also awarded his first WSOP gold
bracelet.

Mosseri cashed in the 2004 WSOP Main Event, finishing in 120th place.  He was the chip
leader that year after Day Three.  But he admits to going on tilt after a bad run on Day Four
and busted out far short of the final table.

Mosseri’s only other cash was in this year’s Seven-Card Stud World Championship, where
he finished in sixth place.

Mosseri estimates that he has played in about 30 WSOP events total (2004 to present).

According to official records, Abe Mosseri now has 1 win, 2 final table appearances, and 3 in-
the-money finishes at the WSOP.  His career WSOP earnings now total $254,771.

Mosseri intends to play in this year’s WSOP Main Event.


Winner Quotes (Abe Mosseri) --

On playing various games for a living:  “My life story is kind of like Matt Damon’s story in
Rounders, but in the game of backgammon.”

On how backgammon helped him become a better poker player:  “I am a math guy.  But I
would not say I am a calculus genius, or anything.  I do put a lot of math into poker,
certainly more than most people.  You know from math which hands to play, and which
hands to get involved with based on the percentages.  It’s very important.”

On his philosophy about games of skill and games if chance:  “I just like to win.  I play to
win.”


The Final Table --

The final table included two former WSOP gold bracelet winners – including John Juanda
and Blair Rodman.  

The final table was played eight-handed.

The runner up was Masayoshi Tanaka, from Kanagawa, Japan.  He is a 34-year-old
software engineer.  He is a Lowball specialist who plays poker mostly online.  Tanaka would
have been the first Japanese citizen to win a gold bracelet had he taken first place.  
Nonetheless, this was the highest finish ever in a WSOP event for a citizen of Japan.  
Second place paid $102,313.

The third-place finisher was June Schneider, from Scottsdale, AZ.  She is a housewife,
mother, and poker player.  Her favorite game is Lowball.  Schneider previously cashed in
the $1,500 Omaha High-Low Split tournament, earlier at this year’s WSOP.  Schneider is the
wife of 2007 WSOP “Player of the Year,” Tom Schneider.

The fourth-place finisher was John Juanda, from Las Vegas, NV.  Juanda missed winning
what would have been a fifth WSOP gold bracelet.  Juanda’s last big win came last year at
WSOP-Europe in the Main Event, where he won the longest final table battle in poker
history.

The fifth-place finisher was Blair Rodman, from Rancho Mirage, CA.  He won his gold bracelet
two years ago.  Rodman now has 33 cashes at the WSOP and over $1 million in winnings.   

The sixth-place finisher was Bradley Libson, from Vail, CO.  He is a 27-year-old poker pro,
who is also an avid skier.  Bradley won a major event held last year at the Aviation Club in
Paris, France.  This marked his fourth consecutive year to cash at the WSOP.  

The seventh-place finisher was Kris Lord, from Palm Harbor, FL.

The eighth-place finisher was Hertzel Zalewski, from Houston, TX.


In-the-Money Finishers --

Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – John Juanda, Blair
Rodman, Hasan Habib, Jerrod Ankenman, and Daniel Negreanu.

John Juanda’s fourth-place showing in this tournament was his 48th career in-the-money
finish.  This currently ranks tenth on the all-time WSOP cashes list.

Daniel Negreanu’s 16th-place showing in this tournament was his 42nd career in-the-
money finish.  This currently ranks 17th on the all-time WSOP cashes list.

Blair Rodman’s fifth place finish keeps him in the top-50 all-time in-the-money finishers at
the WSOP.

The defending champion in the event from 2008 was John Phan, from Stockton, CA.  He
entered this year’s tournament, but did not cash.


Odds and Ends --

This game is rarely played anywhere except at the very highest levels.  It is rarely spread
inside public cardrooms -- either as cash games or tournaments.  In fact, the WSOP is one
of the few places where this poker variant is offered.

Deuce-to-Seven Draw Triple Draw Lowball means the worst, or lowest ranked hand wins
the pot.  The very best possible 2-7 lowball hand is 2-3-4-5-7 of mixed suits.  An ace counts
as a high card.  Flushes and straights count against the player.  While a wheel (A-2-3-4-5)
is the perfect hand in standard lowball, in Deuce-to-Seven it is usually a losing hand since
the straight counts against the player.  Players may draw up to three times to make their
hand.

There is some difference of opinion as to where and when this game originated.  Since the
1930s, variations of lowball have been spread throughout California and Nevada.  
According to poker theorist David Sklansky, Limit 'Double-Draw' Lowball was first spread at
the (now defunct) Vegas World during the early 1980s.  Others cited a game called “Ten-
Handed Triple-Draw Lowball” as the forbearer of Triple Draw, which was played at 'Amarillo
Slim's' Super Bowl of Poker tournaments in Reno and Lake Tahoe during the period 1979
through 1984.  Since ten-handed poker could only accommodate perhaps three or four
players at most due to the number of cards needed to complete a hand, reducing the
number of cards (to five) enabled more players to sit in the game.

The most convincing theory about the origin of Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball comes
from Doc Jennings, who claims to have spread a five-card variant of the game in and around
Fort Smith, AR during the late 1980s.  However, Berry Johnston claims to have first played
the Triple Draw in Oklahoma during the 1970s.  One thing is clear: When Mississippi
legalized casino gambling in 1991, Doc Jennings took Triple-Draw Lowball to the Hollywood
Casino in Tunica, which eventually became a cash game offered regularly inside the
cardroom.  This was the first time the game was officially sanctioned inside a licensed
casino.  Players who gravitated to this game over the years included Keith Lehr, Berry
Johnston, Robert Williamson III (all former gold bracelet winners), and others.

Triple Draw was first introduced at the WSOP in 2002.  John Juanda won the first Triple
Draw tournament.  In 2003, Men 'the Master' Nguyen won the event.  The game took a
three-year hiatus from 2004-2006 and returned in 2007, with a $1,000 buy-in event.  
Hence, this is only the fifth Triple-Draw Lowball event ever played at the WSOP.

Last year's event attracted 238 entries. Entries increased by 8 percent to 258 players.  This
was the largest Limit Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball tournament in poker history.

The official WSOP gold bracelet ceremony takes place on the day following the winner’s
victory.  The ceremony takes place on at center stage of the main tournament room and
begins during the break of the noon tournament.  The ceremony usually starts around 2:20
pm.  The national anthem of the winner’s nation is played.  The entire presentation is open
to public and media.  Video and photography is permitted by both media and the public.

Abe Mosseri’s gold bracelet ceremony will take place on July 3rd, which is Day 1-A of the
WSOP Main Event.


WSOP Lowball Records --

Poker Hall of Fame inductee Billy Baxter holds every conceivable record in any category
relating to Lowball poker.  He has dominated this form of poker in a manner that is
historically unprecedented.  Only poker legend Bill Boyd, who enjoyed similar domination in
Five-Card Draw poker (which is no longer spread at the WSOP) can arguably rival Baxter’s
complete mastery of a single game.

All of Billy Baxter’s seven WSOP gold bracelets were won playing various forms of Lowball.

Billy Baxter has 16 WSOP cashes in Lowball events, the most of any player in this form of
poker.  To give some measure of Baxter’s excellence, the current second-place leaders in
Lowball career cashes are Bobby Baldwin and “Oklahoma Johnny” Hale, with 9 each.


The Event --

The $2,500 buy-in Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball championship attracted 258
entries.  The total prize pool amounted to $593,400.  The top 24 finishers collected prize
money.

The tournament was played over three consecutive days.

Eventual winner Abe Mosseri started play at the final table ranked third in chips, out of
eight players.  The early chip leader was Bradley Libson, who ended up busting out in sixth
place.

When heads-up play began, Mosseri and the eventual runner-up finisher MasaYoshi Tanaka
were about even in chips.  It took Mosseri about an hour to defeat his final foe and win his
first WSOP title.

The tournament officially began on Monday, June 29th, at 5 pm.  The tournament officially
ended on Wednesday, July 1st, at 9:30 pm.  


WSOP Statistics –

Through the conclusion of Event #55, the 2009 WSOP has attracted 53,460 entries.  
$108,433,705 in total prize money has been awarded to winners.

Multiple Gold Bracelet Winners at the 2009 WSOP include:

Jeffrey Lisandro -- 1st, 1st, 1st
Brock Parker -- 1st, 1st
Phil Ivey -- 1st, 1st
Greg Mueller – 1st, 1st

Gold Bracelet Plus Second-Place Finishers at the 2009 WSOP include:

Ville Wahlbeck -- 1st, 2nd (+ 3rd and +6th)
James Van Alstyne -- 1st, 2nd (+ 6th)
Pete "The Greek" Vilandos -- 1st, 2nd
Angel Guillen -- 1st, 2nd
Vitaly Lunkin -- 1st, 2nd (+4th)
Brandon Cantu – 1st, 2nd
Marc Naalden – 1st, 2nd

Multiple Top-Three Finishers at the 2009 WSOP include:

Ville Wahlbeck -- 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Steve Sung -- 1st, 3rd
Scott Clements -- 2nd, 3rd
Eric Baldwin – 1st, 3rd

WINNERS – BY NATION:  Through Event #55 – the nationalities of WSOP gold bracelet
winners reads as follows:

United States – 36
United Kingdom – 3
Canada – 3
Australia – 2
Germany – 2
Russian Federation – 1
Finland – 1
Sweden – 1
Mexico – 1
Italy – 1
Holland – 1
Hungary – 1
Iran – 1

Note:  Last year 19 of the 59 gold bracelet events were won by non-Americans (32
percent).  In, 2007, the number was 15 of 55 (29 percent).  In 2006, the number was 5 of
45 (11 percent).

WINNERS – BY CITY:  Through Event #55 – the following cities have produced multiple
WSOP gold bracelet winners (Note:  Metropolitan area suburbs are included in major city
counts):

Las Vegas, Nevada – 10
Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) – 4
Salerno, Italy – 3
Los Angeles, California – 3
Washington, DC (Maryland and Virginia Suburbs) – 3
New York, New York – 3
London, England – 2

Event #55 winner Abe Mosseri is to be classified as a professional player.  Accordingly, the
“Pro-Am” gold bracelet scoreboard currently reads (not counting Casino Employees Event):

Professionals --         39 wins
(Thang Luu, Steven Sung, Jason Mercier, Phil Ivey-1, Rami Boukai, Anthony Harb, Ville
Wahlbeck, Keven Stammen, Brock Parker-1, Jeffrey Lisandro- 1, Daniel Alaei, Brock Parker-2,
John-Paul Kelly, Jeff Carris, Nick Schulman, Phil Ivey-2, Pete Vilandos, Tomas Alenius, Roland
de Wolfe, J.C. Tran, James Van Alstyne, Angel, Guillen, Greg Mueller-1, Eric Baldwin, Jordan
Smith, Jeffrey Lisandro-2, Richard Austin, Marc Naalden, Matt Graham, Peter Traply, Jerrod
Ankenman, Jeffrey Lisandro-3, John Kabbaj, Jeff Ahmadi, Brandon Cantu, Greg Mueller-2,
Carston Joh, David Bach, Abe Mosseri)

Amateurs --         8 wins
(Freddie Ellis, Ken Aldridge, Travis Johnson, Zac Fellows, Michael Eise, Michael T. Davis, Jorg
Peisert, David J. Halpert)

Semi-Pros --         7 wins
(Vitaly Lunkin, Brian Lemke, Lisa Hamilton, Leo Wolpert, Ray Foley, Derek Raymond, Jeff
Ahmadi)

Fourteen of the 55 winners this year (25 percent) were previous gold bracelet winners.  
There have been three double winners in 2009 -- Brock Parker, Phil Ivey, and Greg “FBT”
Mueller.  There has been one triple winner in 2009 -- Jeffrey Lisandro.

Through the conclusion of Event 55, the WSOP “Player of the Year” standings reads as
follows (with point totals):

355 – Jeffrey Lisandro
320 – Ville Wahlbeck
242 – Phil Ivey
240 – Greg Mueller
240 – Vitaly Lunkin
227 – Brock Parker
220 – James Van Alstyne
195 – Roland de Wolfe
195 – Daniel Negreanu
185 – Vitaly Lunkin
185 – Marc Naalden
__________________________________

World Series of Poker President and Commissioner – Jeffrey Pollack

Vice President of Sponsorship and Licensing -- Ty Stewart

Vive President of Broadcasting and New Media – Craig Abrahams

Director of Communications – Seth Palansky

Regional Vice President of Specialty Gaming -- Howard Greenbaum

WSOP Events Manager -- Angele Marshall

WSOP Marketing Manager – Elizabeth Anne Hill

WSOP Tournament Director – Jack Effel
2009 World Series of Poker WSOP Event #55 Winner