Triple draw lowball, a favored game among top poker pros that often turns up in the rotation in the big mixed games, actually hasn't been around for that long. Indeed, by most accounts the game was first introduced in the late 1990s -- right around the time of internet poker's debut, although it would take some time before the game began turning up online. It was late 2006 when PokerStars first began to spread the game in which players get three draws to make the worst hand between deuce and seven, with straights and flushes counting against the hand.
As it happens, when triple draw lowball started attracting more players online, a chief resource for newcomers was Team PokerStars pro Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu's chapter on the game in Doyle Brunson's Super System 2 (published in 2005). Negreanu starts his chapter by pointing out the "common misconception" that many players have "that triple draw is nothing more than a game of pure luck." As his subsequent tutorial shows, while luck certainly plays a role, the game provides a true test of a player's ability to read the significance of others' bets and draws, while trying to disguise the significance of his or her own.
It was no surprise, then, to see "KidPoker" listed there among the 90 players who put up the $2,000+$100 to play the "high" version of SCOOP Event No. 9, Limit Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball. With the guarantee for the tournament at $200,000, that meant a sweet $20,000 overlay in the prize pool. But only the top nine finishers stood to cash in this one, with $60,000 awaiting the champion.
A few other Team PokerStars pros ventured to join Negreanu, including Chad Brown ("ChadBrownPRO"), Greg Raymer ("Fossilman"), Ivan Demidov, Marcin Horecki ("Goral"), Vanessa Rousso ("Lady Maverick"), and Victor Ramdin. Of that group, only Negreanu and Ramdin were still around once the field had been cut in half to 45 players, a little less than four hours into the event.
Eventually Negreanu and Ramdin were seated across from one another, and the two were having some fun in the chatbox after having locked horns on a number of occasions. Both were short-stacked, but hanging on as the field shrunk down under 40. Eventually Sensor, who finished runner-up in last night's SCOOP Event No. 7 $1,050 H.O.R.S.E. event, was knocked out from their table in 31st, and the table broke. With 30 players remaining, Amke had assumed the chip lead with 38,655, followed by DuckU, Mills23, and Andy McLEOD.
Ramdin would eventually fall in 25th place, but Negreanu would charge ahead, having moved into 4th place with 20 players remaining. Amke remained in front, having pushed out to nearly 60,000, followed by skilled_sox, AWice, and KidPoker.
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