Lisandro does it Again! WSOP Bracelet #3

Posted by pokerguru on June 25, 2009

If anyone would like to make an argument against Jeff Lisandro being the greatest stud player on the planet, I would like to hear it. Lisandro captured his third WSOP bracelet on Wednesday night and has now achieved the remarkable feat of earning a bracelet in all three disciplines of 7 Card Stud. While they are all based off of the original 7 Card Stud, each has its own intricacies. To say that this is amazing is an understatement.

Someone else is also making a name for themselves in this game as Michael Craig, an amateur player who blogs for Full Tilt, has now made his third WSOP final table. The fact that he is an amateur and has managed to stick around in these specialty games with loaded fields is quite the feat. However, even this is not enough to steal the stage from Lisandro who has accomplished something that has not been done is 7 years. Congratulations Jeff Lisando and I am sure that we have not heard the last from you this year at the WSOP.

In other tournaments…

The final table of the Seniors Event is now down to 6 players, but it is still going to be some time before this one is settled. Scott Buller has taken over the lead with 2,160,000 in chips, but three other players have at least 1,000,000 in chips. This table is the epitome of a bunch of scared amateurs that have no idea how to work a stack.

Event 45 is trucking along nicely and is down to about 36 players. At the current pace, it would be surprising to see them not get this one down close to a final table by the end of play this evening. Michiel Brummelhuis still holds the chip lead with 570,000.

Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow has finally made an appearance deep into a tournament as he still has chips in front of him at the Omaha Hi/Low Split tournament. He is short stacked, but this is also his specialty. It would be nice to get him to the final table and add a little spice to this WSOP.