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Day 2
The remaining players will continue in the Miranda room to see who gets to the final table. The gun,
(metaphorically speaking), went off at 2:15 PM and the players were off and running. First bust on the
day was Richard Toth moving to the rail defeated...for now anyway. Victor Ramdin made a straight against
Jacobo Fernandez who made a 7 6 5 4 2 low and followed Toth to the sidelines. Greg Mueller hit a pair
of 5's which meant he had to walk from the tables when compared to the 9 8 6 4 3 of Hung La. La also made
a 7 6 5 4 2 which was enough to send Jimmy Fricke away as well. David Sklansky has more time to write
another poker book now that he is not at the tables in Event 55. David was pushed out by the 8 6 5 3 2
of Jason Lester.
La, La, La, La, La was all you were hearing on the floor until...Hung La met his demise from Gabriel
Nassif who made the nuts with 7 5 4 3 2. No more La, La, La, just sniffles as he walked away from his
chair. He was joined by Billy Baxter, Gioi Luong, Jeff Duvall, Tuan Le, Justin Smith in 22nd place,
Hasan Habib, Daniel Negreanu and Jacobo Fernandez in 10th place. Now that the final table is
established, everyone bagged their chips to come back tomorrow for the championship.
Payout Schedule for the final table players:
Day 3 -- Final Table
Here is the WSOP summary information on this final table:
The 2009 World Series of Poker $2,500 buy-in Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) champion is
Abe Mosseri. Mosseri is a 36-year-old professional poker player. Mosseri plays poker mostly online.
Mosseri collected $166,151 for first place. He was also awarded his first WSOP gold bracelet.
Mosseri intends to play in this year’s WSOP Main Event. The defending champion in the event from
2008 was John Phan. He entered this year’s tournament, but did not cash.
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.
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.
Mosseri was on fire, catching so many right cards it would remind one of Chris Moneymaker in the
2003 Main Event. After numerous raises and betting, Mosseri showed he had 7 6 5 3 2, with the only response from
Tanaka is that he could not produce anything better and Mosseri was declared the champion of Event
#55.
Abe Mosseri