Lowball at High Stakes
Avoid aces. Pass on pairs. Turn away trips, shun straights, and fend off flushes. This is lowball, where worst is best. And everyone is gunning for Number One.
Welcome to Event No. 19, the $10,000 Deuce-to-Seven Draw Lowball Championship (No-Limit). Often described as an especially "pure" form of poker, 2-7 draw -- a.k.a. Kansas City lowball -- combines the gamesmanship of draw poker with the strategy of no-limit betting.
Last year Nick Schulman bested a field of 96 entrants -- including a formidable final table of Ville Wahlbeck, Steve Sung, John Juanda, Archie Karas, Vince Musso, and David Benyamine -- to take down the $279,751 first prize. The year before the event was played as a $5,000 rebuy event, with Mike "the Mouth" Matusow topping a group of 85 to claim his third WSOP bracelet.
We expect a similarly small but stacked group today, an intimate gathering of poker's elite vying for one of the Series' more coveted bracelets. Back around 5 p.m. local time for the start of Day 1!