With no open No Limit Hold'em even starting all pros had their eyes on the $1,500 2-7 No Limit Draw Lowball tournament. The event drew a total of 285 players and after eight levels of play we are down to just 66. The star-studded field is lead by none other then $50,000 Players Championship winner and Main Event finalist Michael Mizrachi who bagged up 86,025.
Players started with 1,500 in tournament chips and two lammer worth 1,500 each, and the action was fast and furious from the start. Phil Ivey was amongst the early casualties while PokerNews' own Donnie Peters was battling it out against Liv Boeree and Brandon Cantu, on a table where plenty of fun things happened. Peters lasted for a long time, but eventually busted out towards the end. Cantu and Boeree both survived the day and will come back with respectively 61,750 and 5,000.
Newly crowned World Series of Poker champion ($1,500 Pot Limit Omaha) Vincent van der Fluit also competed in one of his favorite games, but he as well didn't last too long. Female star Leo Margets also showed up as she proved to have quite the 2-7 game under her belt, she finished the day with 35,750.
Among the other survivors we saw notables like Andrew Lichtenberger (63,150), John Phan (61,750) and Scott Fischman (34,875) who will come back with big stacks. The acton will resume tomorrow at 2:00 PM local time as we will try to get to a final table of seven.
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PokerNews' representative in this event, Donnie Peters, has busted. He'd been suffering from a severe headache for hours so will probably be glad to get in a dark room and sleep it off.
A player raised to 800 and Peters shoved for 4,650. Lichtenberger was in the small blind and re-jammed. The original raiser called all in, and then the three players all drew one.
Player one: -
Peters: -
Lichtenberger: -
Lichtenberger drew the best and eliminated Peters and the other opponent.
Phil Ivey didn't last long in today's event, as he's already out the door. Dan O'Bien was kind enough to tell us what happened, and we wrote down the following.
Ivey had raised it up to 150 after which he go three-bet to 400. The action got back to the three-time WSOP 2012 finalist who went all in for a total of 605 and his opponent called.
Both players stood pat and had similar hands. Ivey's got beaten by and he left the tournament.
MarcC
Matt Perrins will be looking to defend his title
Welcome to the World Series of Poker Event 30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball. This is one of the most fun events in the entire schedule. Unlike its Triple Draw variant of a brother, this game is played No-Limit, rather than limit. The players are also only allowed to draw once, rather than three times. The result of this means that there is an awful lot of opportunities to apply pressure on opponents, bluff, and try to make a hero out of yourself.
Matt Perrins of the UK bettered 274 players last year en route to claiming his maiden bracelet and $102,105. Not a bad achievement considering he'd hardly played the game before.
Here's a full list of previous winners of this event:
Year
Player
Prize
# of Entrants
2009
Phil Ivey
$96,367
147
2010
Yan Chen
$92,817
250
2011
Matt Perrins
$102,105
275
We expect this to be a small but stacked field. Join us back here at 5:00 PM for the start of the eight levels we'll play today.
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