Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split was the original split casino game increasingly to be played at the WSOP, while it was first introduced 32 years ago. In 1976, Doc Green became the first Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split World winner.
In 1986, this casino game was inexplicably gone astray from the WSOP agenda poker club. After some remonstration by stud high-low enthusiasts, it was reinstituted and has been incorporated on the poker menu every year.
Since 1995, every WSOP has included at slightest two such events.
No casino player had yet won more than one gold bracelet in this game. Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split is an event in which the highest and lowest hands split the pot evenly. However, the lowest hand must first meet the requirements to be qualified for half the pot.
“The qualifying low hand is obliged to be an eight-low or better.”
For this reason, the game is occasionally called Seven-Card Stud Eight-or-Better. The tournament is played over three uninterrupted days. Technically speaking, the protecting champion for this episode was Tom Schneider, who won his second WSOP gold bracelet.
Oddly enough, in a post poker tournament meeting Hughes exposed that he does not play much Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split. Hughes more or less did not go into this event.
He was on his way to home return to Phoenix at what time he was talked into playing this tournament by a friend. He unwillingly stayed in Las Vegas a few more days, and ruined up winning his second WSOP victory.