WSOP: Abe Mosseri Wins $2,500 Deuce to Seven Lowball Bracelet

Lance Bradley | July 1, 2009 at 10:15 pm

Abe Mosseri now has a bracelet and nearly $170,000 to his name after taking down the 207 Triple Draw event Wednesday night.

Abe Mosseri fought through a field of 258 players, including runner up Masayhoshi Tanaka, in the $2,500 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw (Event 55) and grabbed one of the last preliminary event bracelets available at the 2009 World Series of Poker.

The New York poker pro and former backgammon player walked away with $165,521 and his first WSOP bracelet.

Despite being a fixed limit game the action at the final table went quickly with the final six table taking of six playing to a winner in a little over six hours. The youngest player at the final table, 27 year old Bradley Libson, also spent the least amount of time in his seat. Libson was knocked out by Julie Schneider. Libson called a raise from Schneider putting himself all-in. The two players each drew two on the first two draws. Schneider then stood pat and watched as Libson drew one card. Schneider showed a J-9-5-3-2 and Libson showed 8-7-4-2 with an ace as his last draw. Out in sixth place Libson walked away with $23,484.

Blair Rodman, 55, who wrote the poker strategy book Kill Phil, tangled with John Juanda and saw his chances for a second WSOP bracelet snuffed out. Rodman drew one card on the first draw and after a check-raise from Juanda drew two on the second draw. Juanda stayed pat and on the third draw Rodman drew a single card and tabled 6-5-4-3-2 for a straight while Juanda showed 8-7-5-4-2 to eliminate Rodman.

The normally sound Juanda then fell victim to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. After standing pat in a large pot with Tanaka the four-time bracelet winner turned his cards over and discovered he actually had a seven-high straight. Tanaka’s 8-7-6-4-2 was good enough to drag the pot and set up Juanda’s elimination a few hands later. Mosseri was in the small blind for 10,000 and Juanda was all-in from the big blind for his last 8,800. Mosseri drew two cards on the first draw and stood pat the rest of the way watching Juanda make a Q-J-8-6-2 and for the fourth time at the 2009 WSOP Juanda left a final table without any extra jewelry.

Schneider, the wife of 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom Schneider, fought a short stack all day long but saw her run end with a third place finish. She put her last 20,000 in the pot from the button and both Tanaka and Mosseri called. Tanaka drew two, Mosseri stood pat and Schneider drew a single card. Mosseri bet and Tanaka called. On the second draw Mosseri again stood pat and bet and Tanaka drew one card and called while Schneider drew two more. On the third draw both Tanaka and Mosseri stood pat and Schneider went looking for one more card. Mosseri showed a 9-5-4-3-2 and took down the pot and eliminated Schneider in the process.

When heads-up play began the two players were nearly even in chips with Tanaka holding a slight lead. The early action saw Mosseri grind away to take over the lead and he never looked back.

WSOP Event #55 Final Table Payouts