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Finding tons of success in both online and live poker for the better part of the past decade, 30-year-old Ryan D'Angelo has built quite a reputation for himself as a No-Limit Hold'em player.
But on a blazing hot day in Las Vegas on Wednesday, a calm and cool D'Angelo won his first ever World Series of Poker Bracelet in a poker variant rarely spread outside high-stakes cash games and the WSOP, taking down the 2016 WSOP Event #7: $1500 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit) title and the $92,338 first-place prize that came with it.
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'I feel like I've worked on my game, tilt control, and everything, and I feel like it has all come together,' D'Angelo said moments after the win. 'It's kind of surreal right now. I'm just so grateful that this happened and I feel like its time for me to go on a big rush. This really is a great way to start to the World Series, its good to win a bunch of money and its good to stamp my name in poker history and grab the bracelet.'
D'Angelo admitted he hasn't spent too much time, outside of about 100 online sit and go's, playing 2-7 Single Draw. Yet still, he felt playing heads up has allowed him to pick up on enough of the nuances of the game to at least compete.
The event drew 279 entries and boiled down to a final table Wednesday that featured John Monnette and Dan Kelly, two WSOP bracelet winners considered among the top poker players on the planet in any variant. However, D'Angelo came into the event's final day with the lead, and really cruised to victory.
'I was really centered the whole tournament and the cards came my way,' he said. 'It was like the perfect tournament. I was never at risk and I was always able to pick up pots here and there, and it's such a fun game.
'It's nice to play a game that I'm not really used to, and I think that's what everyone loves about the World Series, is the chance to play tournaments in varieties they are not used to.'
Monnette made it all the way to heads up, but D'Angelo really won the tournament three handed, taking a 6:1 lead into a heads-up match that finished before it was started. D'angelo and Monette were about even three handed, but when short stack Tom Franklin doubled through Monette, D'Angelo took a lead over the two of them and put his foot firmly on the gas from there.
'I was the big stack, so I could just open up and apply pressure,' he said. 'There was a big pay jump between third and second and they weren't messing with me because of that, so I could just be opening liberally on the button and they were folding.'
The rules of the game and the basic math is relatively simple, but most agree 2-7 Single Draw really hangs on a much more difficult concept: Reading your opponents. It's a five-card draw poker game where the player with the best low hand wins the pot. The aces are high, and flushes, straights and pairs count against your hand. There is a round of betting where you must come in with a raise before a single draw, and another round of betting after the draw. It's played no limit.
Because it so often comes down to trying to read what your opponent has, poker players that play more than hold'em often refer to 2-7 Single Draw as the purest form of poker. D'Angelo is certainly in that camp.
'It's so pure,' he said. 'After the draw its just do they have it, or don't they. It's a lot of meta game and leveling, and the meta game changes throughout because there are times when they might be bluffing more or bluffing less.
'It really is a pure form of poker, there's a lot of soul reading and does he have it or doesn't he?'
D'Angelo was set to register another event at the series coming straight off the win Wednesday, and it's interesting to note that if he does go on the heater he's starting to believe he's on the cusp of, he won't be the only winner.
He and wife Ronit Chamani donate a lot of time and money to the Food Gardens Foundation charity in South Africa, providing seeds and helping educate needy people on farming techniques in the region.
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'They offer the opportunity for people to start growing food, providing for their family and maybe even selling it at the market,' he said. 'It's a great way to help people turn their lives around.'
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Table f1
Marshall Lake 73250
Brian Goetz 63150
James M. Layland 31400
Barry Tanenbaum 21950
Guy Desjardins 14425
Miki Takeda 10500
Nate Huang 7800
David Barnett 7000
Arik Klingensmith 6850
Jeff Rouse 5475
Table f10
Phil Maki 12400
Ted Schwartz 12100
Rudolph J. Tatay 10550
Henry Briones Jr. 10000
Jim Strydio 9925
Christopher Houston 8825
Jason Gao 7075
Bob Morgan 7000
Robert Holibaugh 6850
Trevor Linberg 2100
Table f11
Raimo Kauhanen 48450
Tyler Sims 32975
Dick Kalagher 31400
Bo Curry 28075
Keith Thompson 26300
Alasdair Turnbull 16700
Barry Paul 16550
Dan Kimberg 15775
Chris Hartman 14800
Jazbo Burns 8700
Table f12
Joe Sosa 66275
Bert Hackney 50250
Dennis Lynch 40075
Jim Bullard 36850
Paul McMullin 20225
Paul Gronowski 19775
Rick Kelly 14600
Josh Horwich 10950
Steven Watanabe 10700
Mark Gansle 800
Table f13
Steve Jacobs 129325
Doug Robertson 97450
Corey Imsdahl 31975
Greg Wohletz 26550
Tim Heilig 21625
Kenneth Pearlman 10450
Tony Barbour 8000
Keith Fichtemaier 2300
Michael Miller 2250
Jen-I Pi 1075
Table f14
Randall W. Dean 37600
Dave Spencer 34825
Kerry Whisnant 27925
Darren Rowley 18500
Bill Ingram 11550
Clark Olson 11425
David Croson 7850
Russ Engle 7475
Ed Oliveri 6725
Jeff Byard 1775
Table f15
Lenny Augustine 41625
Jason Duran 37725
Victor Palomar 33200
David Wren-Hardin 30650
Barry Brumitt 23875
Einar Tryggvason 21950
Richard Saxton 17425
Mark Lyttle 15750
David Rho 15050
Tom Mathies 7700
Table f16
Peter Wagner 70775
Robert Ekendahl 48600
Andy Holderness 40400
Rick Duggan 35625
Steven Sembay 25175
Jim Geary 21850
Lyndon While 21350
Mike Deck 19600
Eric Obleman 7600
Table f17
Jim Melvin 53125
Palmer Chappelle 32500
Lee Jones 29350
Michael Zimmers 28650
Scott Benson 21450
Kevan S. Garrett 18500
Teo Keary 12025
Tim Wilson 7700
Bob L. Dobbson 3750
Michael Schnapf 1225
Table f18
Keith Bronson 40325
Robert Ulrich 34275
Sean Erickson 23225
Bob Herlien 18775
Mark Pfeifer 17050
John Nelson 16200
Stephen H. Landrum 12250
Mark 'Irwin' Bentkower 5650
Ken Anderson 4850
Troy Hansen 2450
Table f19
Ernie Englehart 75950
Earl Baker 63675
Bruce Jones 49875
Samuel R. Posten III 48700
Jeffrey Sue 41150
Bob Bolt 19600
Warren Usui 19600
Will Hyde 17025
Patrick Chu 15800
Paul Siem 1375
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M. Horowitz 64775
Martin Veneroso 53325
Bruce Beckloff 42975
Dan Bikle 31475
Grant R. Denn 26700
Geoff Mellor 25950
Jeff Woods 19450
Bob K 12575
Michael Rouse 8425
Larry Konis 275
Table f20
Guy Berentsen 72400
Jeff Troeger 49575
Philip Heacock 32250
Len Linardakis 18225
Robert Sadowski 18100
Glenn Freidet 17675
Rob Peglar 12500
Karen Beighley 10775
Sam Harbison 10100
Table f21
John Holmes 182875
Gerald E. Petersen 36700
David Barnett 7000
Mike D'Angelo 27075
Shmuel Goshen 19525
Konstantin Othmer 12400
Jeff Jennings 8475
Don Olivas 6375
Mike Spencer 375
Table f3
Keith Roberts 70950
Dan Franzen 51100
Stephen Blackstock 48350
Kenny Brown 39450
Greg Garner 38500
Peter Secor 37625
Dave Klassen 29900
Tom Porter 22275
Daniel Efron 20475
Jim VanWinkle 11750
Table f4
Bernie Luger 45150
David T. Meeks 44125
Eric Smith 24250
Jim Rankin 18000
Tim Dierks 15650
Hakan Elderstig 14775
Mike Crawley 10625
Andrew W. Montoya 9575
George Gusciora 8350
Todd Fracke 950
Table f5
Peter Caldes 134825
Rafael Furst 45475
Jeff Kawski 37250
Keith Miyake 37150
Jianglong REN 20750
David Lambert 14750
Ed Kearns 7825
Jeff Mendonca 6500
Ken Yao 4225
Dave McVay 2800
Table f6
John McClenny 54150
Ken Wilson 41975
Carl Rhodes 39425
Garrett W. Choi 35900
Jim Voris 28950
Ron Cormier 21750
J. Andrew Lipscomb 17200
Gary W Sutherland 13575
Connie Chilcott 11525
Dan Graves 7750
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Table f7
Andy Chung 44100
Jim Begley 34500
Bruce Spell 34150
Peter Balka 26750
Greg Reynolds 22150
Matt Clayton 19375
Adam Stoller 13675
Scott Burrington 8825
Chris Colby 5775
David Kahn 2900
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Table f8
Jay Sipelstein 52200
Dave Marshall 47100
Eric Muller 35250
Franco Baseggio 32325
John Zehr 26900
Jack Hodgson 13200
Paul Filipski 12750
Chuck Cilek 8625
Craig Miller 7050
Alix Martin 1425
Table f9
Kevin Kinder 72900
Scott Chupack 35200
Jim Morgan 30700
John Freeman 27925
Rich Strauss 21200
Mike McClain 13700
Ed Tossman 11575
Jim Neyer 8000
Gary McCalla 3100