WSOP results

58 year old Jack Zwerner has been around the Vegas block, he’s worked in all the big casinos, and even founded America’s largest bingo operation.

So he knows his way around, and that now includes how to win a World Series of Poker bracelet.

Zwerner won Event #8 the $2,000 Omaha High-Low Split tournament, steaming through a field of 670 runners, featuring some big names, including one of the most recognisable players in the game, Daniel Negreanu, at the final table.

He takes home $341,426 for first place from an available $1,219,400 prize pool.

Arriving at the final table as the biggest stack, he was able to make this advantage pay, and lead the final nine players pretty much throughout.

After finishing in seventh place a few days earlier (in shorted-handed no-limit hold’em), Negreanu hoped this tournament might be the opportunity to pick up a fourth gold bracelet.

Instead, it ended with yet another disappointment – seventh place. Negreanu got low on chips and was all-in with two pair, losing to a straight. ‘Kid Poker’ collected $48,776.

When play moved to heads-up, Jack Zwerner put his foot down, racing through the last 35-minutes like a man on a mission. All Rusty Mandap could do was watch as pot after pot, and chip after chip, was pushed in the opposite direction.

On what turned out to be the last hand of the tournament, Mandap had high hopes for his A-A-10-3. Instead, the big pair and low-draw was crushed and counterfeited when the final board showed 6-5-3-7-2. Zwerner showed A-8-7-4 with two hearts to match the three hearts on board. Zwerner’s heart flush and better low trounced Mandap’s hand, and the win was in the bag.

Just days before the WSOP started, Zwerner admitted that he had no intention to play in the world’s largest and most prestigious poker tournament.

Zwerner had not played in the World Series in nearly 15 years. But his 21-year-old son started taking an interest in poker and encouraged the elder Zwerner to enter and play this year.

As befitting a Vegas veteran, Zwerner was gracious in victory: “You have to get a little bit lucky to win a tournament,” he said. “I was involved in hands at the right place at the right time. I tell you – there’s nothing more satisfying than winning money gambling.”

Event #8
$2,000 Omaha High Low Split
Final table results:

1. Jack Zwerner $341,426
2.Florante "Rusty" Mandap $176,813
3.Jeff Madsen $97,552
4.Cong Do $85,358
5.Robert "Buzzsaw" Mangino $73,164
6.Robert Collins $60,970
7.Daniel Negreanu $48,776
8.Russ Salzer $36,582
9.Steve Lustig $24,388