Just as is true with most poker history, there are a number of different versions of how and where Deuce to Seven Triple Draw originated. It is fairly clear that different variations of lowball poker have been played in both Nevada and California since the 1930s, however, Deuce to Seven Triple Draw is a much newer version of lowball, which seems to have sprung up in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
While a Double Draw variation of lowball was played at Vegas World casino early in the 1980s, and Amarillo Slim Preston had Ten-Handed Triple-Draw Lowball at his Super Bowl of Poker tournaments around the same time, Doc Jennings seems to have been the first to introduce the current six player, five-card format in Arkansas in the late 1980s. It was first spread in a legal casino in 1991, when the Hollywood Casino in Tunica, Mississippi was opened.
The game grew in popularity to the point where it began to be played as a bracelet event at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in 2002, with John Juanda taking down the first tourney. Another poker legend, Men “the Master” Nguyen, won the second bracelet in 2003, and after the game vanished from the WSOP for the next three years, it was returned to the schedule in 2007, where it has remained since. The 2009 World Series event was a $2,500 buy-in, which attracted a record-breaking 258 entries, with a first prize of $166,151. It was won by Abe Mosseri, and other notable players who cashed (with 24 places paying) included Masayoshi Tanaka (2nd place, just missing becoming the first Japanese player to win a WSOP bracelet), John Juanda (4th place), Blair Rodman (5th place), Daniel Negreanu (16th place) and Hasan Habib (18th place).
The game’s popularity has begun to accelerate in the past couple of years as it has been added, both in ring game and tournament forms, to a number of the most popular online card rooms, including Poker Stars, Carbon Poker and Aced Poker. One of the most popular formats in which it exists online is as part of the 8-game rotation at Poker Stars, where it is played along with limit Hold’em, limit Omaha High/Low 8 or better, limit Razz, limit 7 Card Stud, limit 7 Card Stud High/Low 8 or Better, no limit Hold’em and pot limit Omaha (high only). Its inclusion in this type of mixed game format has introduced many more players to the game, whose popularity continues to increase with each passing year.
Introduction to Deuce to Seven Triple Draw History
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