Eli Elezra Wins Event #48 ($112,591)
Eli Elezra made his third final table of the 2015 World Series of Poker, and this time he finished the job, taking down Event #48: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud for $112,591 against a 237-player field.
“Winning the bracelet in stud, the old-school game nobody plays any more... it means so much to me,” he said. “I feel really good.”
It's Elezra's third bracelet, joining the ones he won in Event #24: $3,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low in 2007 for $198,984 and Event #59: 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball in 2013 for $173,236.
Elezra had to overcome about a 3-1 chip deficit heads up against Benjamin Lazer after Allen Cunningham bowed out of the tournament in third. Elezra needed just about two hours to turn that 10-big bet stack into his third bracelet. He got the last of it when he ran down Lazer's wired queens with 
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to leave Lazer's unimproved queens dead before he could even squeeze out seventh street.
Three final tables and a bracelet apparently isn't enough to satisfy Elezra, who predicted he will make one more final table before the series is in the books. He revealed he's been playing with a bit of a chip on his shoulder, ever since the 25K fantasy draft.
“They got me for only $1 in fantasy,” he said with a wide grin. “I'm going to show them that I'm worth more than that.”
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eli Elezra | Henderson, NV | $112,591 |
| 2 | Benjamin Lazer | Kingston, NY | $69,532 |
| 3 | Allen Cunningham | Las Vegas, NV | $44,846 |
| 4 | Gylbert Drolet | Saint-Nicholas, Canada | $32,495 |
| 5 | Kenn Wittock | Gilbert, AZ | $23,891 |
| 6 | Byron Ziebell | Hales Corners, WI | $17,821 |
| 7 | Jean Gaspard | Evanston, IL | $13,486 |
| 8 | Matt Grapenthien | Chicago, IL | $10,352 |