Lowball enthusiasts came out in full force to the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas to battle at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #22: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw (6 Handed) over the past three days. The event attracted a banner field of 574 entries to create a healthy $766,290 prize pool.
American Aaron “AJ” Cummings dazzled the field and more than doubled his lifetime earnings at The Hendon Mob after defeating Japan’s Yuichi Kanai heads-up to win his first bracelet and the $146,516 top prize.
“We had a blast, and I just ran the best,” said Cummings after his victory to WSOP.
While there was certainly some run-good in Cummings’s road to victory, he displayed remarkable skills battling among some of the best lowball players in the world.
Several bracelet winners went deep in this event, including the likes of Danny Wong (seventh – $16,204), Ilija Savevski (ninth – $12,188), and Ammon Filippi (14th – $7,437). Three-time bracelet winners John Cernuto (19th – $6,041), David “Bakes” Baker (22nd – $6,041), Ian Johns (31st – $4,327), David “ODB” Baker (32nd – $4,327), and Daniel Idema (37th – $3,821) also cashed in this event while seven-time bracelet winner and poker legend Billy Baxter (43rd – $3,475), five-time champ Brian Yoon (47th – $3,475), and online mixed-game wizard and five-time champ Benny Glaser (58th – $3,150) also finished in the money.
Event #22: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Aaron “AJ” Cummings | United States | $146,516 |
| 2 |  Yuichi Kanai | Japan | $95,981 |
| 3 | Alexander Wilkinson | United States | $64,256 |
| 4 | Heather Alcorn | United States | $43,984 |
| 5 | Sean Yu | United States | $30,800 |
| 6 | Anthony Lazar | United States | $22,075 |
| 7 | Danny Wong | United States | $16,204 |
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Event #22: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Final Table Recap
The final day began with 12 hopefuls in the hunt for the title with runner-up Yuichi Kanai holding the chip lead and eventual champion AJ Cummings in the middle of the pack.
The final table was reached with Kanai still holding the lead and Cummings inches behind after Steven Gray, Ilija Savevski, Alex Ferrari, James Williams, and Jon Turner all hit the rail on the final day.
Former WSOP Poker Dealer of the Year Heather Alcorn immediately put her stamp on the final table by sending Danny Wong to the rail in seventh place for $16,204. Wong stood pat with jack-eight on the second draw. Alcorn drew one card and improved to number 4 with seven-six-five-four-two guaranteeing that a first-time bracelet winner would be crowned.
The chip lead then bounced around from Sean Yu to Alcorn back to Yu once again in a series of hands before Alcorn nearly took the lead once again when her eight-seven was good against nine-eight to eliminate Anthony Lazar in sixth place for $22,075 with both players drawing one card on the final draw.
Alexander Wilkenson then snagged the lead after winning hands against Kanai and Yu before Cummings had his first taste of the chip lead at the final table winning a big hand against Alcorn where he stood pat with eight-seven to defeat his opponent’s ten-six. The lead temporarily went back to Wilkenson before Cummings once against had the lead.
Wilkenson then eliminated two players in Alcorn (fourth – $43,984) after drawing one to nail eight-five to beat a pat eight-seven and Yu (fifth – $30,800) when his pat jack was good against his opponent’s queen.
However, Cummings came storming back making a huge hero-call with a king after Wilkenson attempted to snow his opponent after standing pat with trip-eights in his hand.
While Wilkenson’s bluff failed, Kanai got one through against Cummings with a pair of threes to snag the lead with three players remaining. However, shortly after Cummings came storming ahead winning a handful of big pots to take control.
Cummings had a 3:2 advantage to start the heads-up action against Kanai after eliminating Wilkenson on a cooler. Both Wilkenson and Cummings drew one card with both players holding four low cards in their hands. Wilkenson hit a straight which would have been great in five-card draw but was one of the worst outcomes in this lowball affair and hit the rail in third place for $64,256 to Cummings’s pair of sevens.
Kanai battled back to take the chip lead early in what turned out to be a 90-minute heads-up battle. The chip lead then bounced back and forth between the duo before Cummings gained some breathing room when his eight-six was more than enough to defeat his opponent’s pocket deuces.
Eventually, Kanai was on the ropes and it came down to both players drawing one card during the final hand. Cummings improved to an eight-six to win his first bracelet while Kanai’s glorious battle ended in second place for $95,981 with ten-eight.
“We got em!” shouted Cummings to his rail.
Congrats to Aaron “AJ” Cummings for winning the $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple ball in style for his first career bracelet.
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