Seven-card stud eight or better, also known as seven-card stud hi-low, is a split-pot game, played with two to eight players. As in regular seven-card stud, every player is dealt a total of seven cards, three of them face down, and the other four face up.
The objective is to make both your best five card high hand, and your best five card low hand, using any combination of the seven cards you are dealt. The player with the best high hand wins half the pot, and the player with the best low hand wins the other half. If there is no qualifying low hand, the player with the best high hand wins the entire pot.
A qualifying low hand is made with five cards that are all 8 or lower, an ace counting as the lowest. No pairs can exist in a low hand, but a straight and/or a flush may. The lowest possible hand is A2345. The highest possible qualifying low hand is 87654.
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Kamoei brought it in and Bansal raised. Kamoei called.
Both players checked fourth, fifth and sixth street. On seventh street, Bansal checked and Kamoei bet. Bansal called. Kamoei revealed K♥4♥3♣ and his flush was good enough to take down the entire pot.
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In the 30th episode, Connor talks with 2024 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Tamayo about growing up in Humble, Texas, studying hotel management at Cornell University, graduating during the 2008 recession, running deep in the 2009 and 2015 Main Events, his friendship with fellow Main Event champion Joe McKeehen, winning the biggest-ever WSOP Main Event for $10 million, and his first purchase as world champion.
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Today will see the start of Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better at 2 p.m. local time here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, with starting stacks of 25,000 chips. Registration will remain open until the start of Level 10 at about 8:45 p.m. No reentries are allowed.
Day 1 is slated to play 15 levels of 40 minutes each, with 15-minute breaks every three levels. There will not be a dinner break.
On Day 2, Thursday, June 26, at 1 p.m., there will be another 10 levels before bagging, but this time, the levels will last 60 minutes with breaks after every two and there will be a 60-minute dinner break starting at about 7:30 p.m. following Level 21. Day 3 will play until a winner is determined.
Last year, Nikolay Fal battled his way to victory in this event and collected $153,730 in the process. He bested a field of 611 entrants to secure the gold bracelet.
2024 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Final Table Results
Place
Player
Country
Prize (USD)
1
Nikolay Fal
Russia
$153,730
2
Christian Roberts
Venezuela
$102,492
3
Joseph Hertzog
United States
$70,288
4
Kenneth Kemple
United States
$49,127
5
Dekel Balas
United States
$35,006
6
Yuval Bronshtein
Israel
$25,442
7
Nikolay Ponomarev
United Kingdom
$18,866
8
Jon Turner
United States
$14,280
9
Joey Couden
United States
$11,038
Winner's Reaction
"I'm very happy to win a bracelet in Stud Hi-Lo," said Fal, before specifying that stud "is my favorite game."
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