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Rio��s Top 20 Least Attended WSOP Events Are Primarily 2-7 Draw Lowball

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On Sunday, the 2018 World Series of Poker Event #23: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Championship got underway with just a dozen players. Of course, that number climbed as players late registered and exercised their single re-entry option. Toward the end of Day 1, the field stood at just 70 entries, though registration remains open until the start of Day 2.

Traditionally, 2-7 lowball events have been among the least attended tournaments of the summer, which isn��t much of a surprise considering it��s a specialty of sorts. Still, what��s to account for the stagnation?

If there��s an expert on 2-7 lowball it��s seven-time bracelet winner and 2006 Poker Hall of Fame inductee Billy Baxter. Five of his bracelets have come in the variant spanning from 1975-1993.

��I��ll tell you why it��s such a small turnout. First off, the people who play this game like to gamble, and for all the big players, this was the game of choice many years ago,�� he said. ��When we were playing a $5,000 buy-in, David Gray won it for $365K. Now they��ve got a $10,000 buy-in and you might be lucky to get out the door with $100K+. That tells you they��ve messed the tournament up really bad.��

Baxter: "We need to talk to them about getting it back to the way it was."

He continued: ��Having said that, now that they��re letting people re-enter once, I think we need to talk to them about getting it back to the way it was and it might be a $1 million prize with a $5,000 entry. Back then it was $5,000 for four hours, you could rebuy anytime you had less than the starting stack, and a double add-on at the end. It was the greatest tournament in the world.��

Baxter also believes the price point plays a big role in the low turnout.

��All the good players don��t even come over and play no more because they can��t win enough,�� he explained. ��The cash games are better, so if they could come play for $1 million they��d be over here instead. They love it, it��s their favorite game. That��s the reason no one is here, it��s too cheap.��

Billy Baxter
Billy Baxter in the 2018 WSOP $10K 2-7 Lowball tournament.

According to Paul Volpe, who topped a field of 87 runners to win the 2014 WSOP Event #13: $10,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball for $242,662, another reason is lack of learning opportunities.

��A big part of it is that there is nowhere for the younger generation to practice,�� he said. ��When I was coming up I loved the FTOPS and I��d see a new game. I wanted to get up on the leaderboard so I��d go learn the game playing cash. That��s how I learned. Now there are a lot of young American guys who would love to play mix but there��s just nowhere to play. There��s essentially nowhere to get new people. Who knows if in 10 years this event will still be here.��

Below is a look at the top 20 lowest attended events �C minus the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drops �C since the WSOP relocated to the Rio in 2005.

*Note that while 2005��s Event #39: $5,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball technically drew 65 runners, at the time it offered untallied rebuys and a double add-on, which juiced the prize pool to $986,860.

Top 20 Lowest Attended WSOP Events Since 2005

TournamentEntriesWinnerPrize
2005 WSOP Event #39: $5,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball65*David Grey$365,135
2015 WSOP Event #29: $10,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball77Phil Galfond$224,383
2007 WSOP Event #54: $5,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball (Rebuy)78Erik Seidel$538,835
2017 WSOP Event #34: $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw80Ben Yu$232,738
2006 WSOP Event #38: $5,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball (Rebuy)81Daniel Alaei$430,698
2015 WSOP Event #44: $50,000 Poker Players Championship84Mike Gorodinsky$1,270,086
2008 WSOP Event #18: $5,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball (Rebuy)85Mike Matusow$537,862
2013 WSOP Event #43: $10,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball87Jesse Martin$253,524
2014 WSOP Event #13: $10,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball87Paul Volpe$253,524
2016 WSOP Event #3: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Championship87Robert Mizrachi$242,662
2017 WSOP Event #72: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Championship88Mike Wattel$245,451
2015 WSOP Event #27: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud91Brian Hastings$239,518
2016 WSOP Event #55: $50,000 Poker Players Championship91Brian Rast$1,296,097
2017 WSOP Event #22: $10,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball92John Monnette$256,610
2009 WSOP Event #49: $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.95David Bach$1,276,802
2017 WSOP vent #26: $10,000 Razz Championship97James Obst$265,138
2016 WSOP Event #16: $10,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball100Jason Mercier$273,335
2016 WSOP Event #20: $10,000 Razz Championship100Ray Dehkharghani$273,338
2017 WSOP Event #62: $50,000 Poker Players Championship100Elior Sion$1,395,767
2010 WSOP Event #19: $10,000 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball101David Baker$$294,321
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