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unusual facts about seven-card stud



Five-card stud

Five-card stud was one of the preliminary events in the World Series of Poker in 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974.

Jeff Lisandro

He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2007 in the $2,000 Seven-Card Stud event beating a final table that included Daniel Negreanu and Nick Frangos.

Paul Darden

Originally, he was best known as a seven-card stud player, where he had several notable tournament finishes in 2000 prior to winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in 2001 for the $2,500 seven-card stud event, defeating Tom Franklin heads-up.


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Don Holt

Holt finished second in a seven card stud eight-or-better event in 1998.

Eli Elezra

Elezra won his first bracelet by winning the World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi-Low in the 2007 World Series of Poker after defeating Scotty Nguyen heads-up.

Frank Kassela

Kassela won both of his WSOP bracelets in 2010, the first was at the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship, It began with 170 entries with a final table made up of notable professional poker players such as Allen Kessler (2nd), Jennifer Harman (3rd), Steve Zolotow (4th), John Juanda (5th), Vladimir Shchemelev (7th) and Dario Minieri (8th).

Hasan Habib

He eventually won a World Series of Poker bracelet for the $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split event ($93,060) in 2004.

John Cernuto

In 1988, Cernuto won the $1,000 Seven Card Stud event at Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker tournament series, earning a cash prize of $58,000 in addition to the title.

Another five WSOP money finishes followed before he won his first bracelet in the 1996 WSOP $1,500 seven card stud split tournament.

Rodney Pardey

Rodney H. Pardey, seven-card stud player and 2-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner

Todd Brunson

Todd Brunson also contributed to his father's book, Super System 2 (the 2005 sequel to Doyle Brunson's poker book Super/System), writing the Seven Card Stud High Low Eight or Better section.