Event #30: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship
Day 1 Started
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #30: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,166,900
Entries
233
Level
31
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
450,000
Entries
189
Players Left
79
Players Left 1 / 233
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Welcome back to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2025 World Series of Poker and home of live updates from all bracelet events.
Event #30: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship commences at 2:00 p.m. local time today, and you can already feel the electricity in the air. Some regard No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven as the purest form of poker, and it's challenging to disagree. This event will attract some stellar names to the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, each hoping to emerge victoriously in three days.
Entrants begin their quest for glory with a 60,000 starting stack. The first 15 levels last 60 minutes before increasing every 90 minutes from Level 16 onward. Day 1 players get to stretch their legs for 15 minutes every two levels, but there will be no dinner break. Play concludes after the tenth level.
Day 2 starts at 1:00 p.m. local time on June 9, with players able to reenter up to twice during the first level of the day (~2:15 p.m.). The second day could turn into a battle of endurance because the plan is to reduce the field to only five hopefuls. Fifteen-minute breaks are pencilled in every level, with a 60-minute dinner break scheduled for the end of the 15th level (~6:30 p.m.).
The finish time on Day 2 will determine the restart time on Day 3.
Those who followed the 2024 WSOP live updates at PokerNews may recall that Scott Seiver captured this event's bracelet last year. Seiver's victory was his third of the series, a feat last achieved by George Danzer in 2014. In addition to Seiver and Danzer, only Jeff Lisandro, Phil Ivey, Ted Forrest, Phil Hellmuth, and Puggy Pearson have managed to complete a hat-trick of bracelet wins in a single series.
"I feel very satisfied right now," Seiver told PokerNews after the win. "I can't really describe it. I'm like on Cloud Nine right now. This just means so much to me, and it also is a step in a personal journey I've made for myself where I've had a pie-in-the-sky dream where I want to win one bracelet in every single discipline there is."
| Year | Entrants | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 186 | $1,729,800 | Scott Seiver | $411,041 |
| 2023 | 154 | $1,432,200 | Chris Brewer | $367,599 |
| 2022 | 121 | $1,128,325 | Pedro Bromfman | $294,616 |
| 2021 | 122 | $1,137,650 | Farzad Bonyadi | $297,051 |
| 2020 | Not Held |
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Level: 1
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 500
Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 500 ante
With 16 players to kick things off, Event #30: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship is now underway!
Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 500 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 500 ante
Thomas Taylor opened to 1,000 and Eric Kurtzman defended his big blind.
Kurtzman drew three and Taylor took one off.
Kurtzman then checked over to Taylor, who put 1,500 into the middle.
"Fifteen hundred? Wait, is this no-limit?" Kurtzman said.
Taylor confirmed that it was and Kurtzman said, "Jeez, I thought this was limit! What game is this!?" before sending his hand into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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61,000
61,000
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61,000 |
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59,000
1,000
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1,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 500 ante
Bradley Jansen and Patrick Stacey went heads-up after the draw with around 3,000 in the pot. Jansen then bet 1,500 from the button.
Stacey came back with a raise to 7,000 from the big blind and Jansen took a few minutes before tossing his cards away.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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63,000
3,000
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3,000 |
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57,000 | |
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Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 500 ante
Arthur Morris raised to 1,100 and Billy Baxter called in the big blind.
Baxter drew one and Morris took two off. Both players then checked and Baxter said, "I have a pair."
"Pair is good," Morris responded. Baxter then tabled 6x6x8x5x2x and Morris sent his hand into the muck.
Baxter, who was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006 and has seven WSOP bracelets to his name, has a storied history and will be looking to make a deep run.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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61,500
1,500
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1,500 |
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58,500
1,500
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1,500 |
Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 500 ante
Darren Elias raised to 1,100 on the button and Eric Kurtzman three-bet to 3,000 in the small blind. Thomas Taylor then four-bet to 9,000 in the big blind and Elias folded, but Kurtzman stuck around and called.
Both players drew one and Kurtzman checked. Taylor checked behind and Kurtzman showed 10x8x5x4x3x to win the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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65,000
6,000
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6,000 |
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58,000
2,000
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2,000 |
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48,000
13,000
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13,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 200/300, 500 ante
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