Jeffrey Lisandro
Another poker pro who piqued my interest is the Perth born Jeffrey Lisandro.
At 2009 World Series of Poker, he became the first person to win a World Series title in all three seven-card stud disciplines, he won the Stud High, Stud High-Low, and Razz.
At the age of five, he used to watch his parents play poker every weekend, and when he was 9 years old he was confident that he could play better than his parents. When he attained the age of 18 (the legal limit for gambling in Australia) he was making more money playing poker than by his regular job. When he realized he was winning because of his skill and not because of his luck, he decided to do it for a living.
Lisandro made his first final table appearance in a World Series of Poker event in 1997, in the $3,000 pot limit hold’em event won by Phil Hellmuth Jr. He has made to eleven WSOP final tables since then, in Omaha, seven card stud and 2 to 7 lowball events and won has won four bracelets, two in Seven Card Stud, one in Seven Card Stud hi/low and one in Razz.
In December 2004, Lisandro won the $25,000 limit hold’em heads-up tournament, defeating Howard Lederer in the final to take home the $194,000 grand prize.
In May 2005, he won the $10,000 no limit hold’em World Series of Poker circuit event at Lake Tahoe, defeating Phil Ivey in the final heads-up confrontation to win the $542,360 prize. Lisandro has said that he considers this to be one of his greatest achievements, as he rates Ivey to be one of the best players in the world.
Lisandro finished 17th in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event, winning $659,730.
He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2007 in the $2,000 Seven-Card Stud event beating a final table that included Daniel Negreanu and Nick Frangos.
Lisandro plays online at PokerStars and is a good friend of Jean-Robert Bellande. He is famous for chewing gums at the poker table to reduce tells.
He placed 2nd in the World Championship Pot Limit Hold’em (Event 13) in 2007. He won $294,620 as the runner-up to Allen Cunningham.
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,000,000. His 31 cashes at the WSOP account for $2,578,137 of those winnings. In 2009, Lisandro won the World Series of Poker Player of the Year award.
Jeff Lisandro’s is nicknamed “The Iceman” as he has an extremely cool behavior at the table. But according to an interview with pokernews, he got that name from his “Ice chewing Gum”.
