Jeff Lisandro

Education

Lisandro has not yet made a final table on the World Poker Tour (WPT), but has finished in the money in two events.

Career

Grow up near Salerno, Italy, Lisandro"s mother taught him how to play poker at the age of five. Lisandro finished 17th in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event, winning $659,730. He was also noted for an incident with Prahlad Friedman during the event, where Friedman felt that Lisandro had not put in his ante, worth 5,000 chips, in a hand.

(In posting one of the blinds, a third player at the table forgot to put in his ante.

The dealer corrected his mistake) Friedman brought it up constantly through the hand, with the dealer telling him to stop bringing it up. Friedman would not stop, and called Lisandro a "thief".

Lisandro was very upset to hear that, and argued with Friedman, telling him he would "take his head off". Friedman tried to settle things with Lisandro afterwards during play, but Lisandro refused to talk to him.

Lisandro asked him, "Can you take him (Friedman) with you?"

He is known for chewing gum at the poker table to reduce tells.

He placed 2nd in the World Championship Pot Limit Hold"em (Event 13) in 2007. As of 2014, his total live tournament winnings exceed $5,400,000. His 56 cashes at the WSOP account for $4,151,222 of those winnings.

In addition to his residence in Salerno, he also owns a property in Santa Barbara, California.

Achievements

• At the 2009 World Series of Poker, he became the first person to win a World Series title in all three seven-card stud disciplines in the same year, when he won tournaments in Study High, Study High-Low, and Razz, earning him the Player of the Year title. 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 Philosophy Hellmuth Junior. He has made eleven WSOP final tables since then, in Omaha, seven card stud and 2 to 7 lowball events and has won five bracelets, two in Seven Card Study, one in Seven Card Study hi/low, one in Razz, and one in Pot-Limit Omaha. 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 Philosophy 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. He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2007 in the $2,000 Seven-Card Study event beating a final table that included Daniel Negreanu and Nick Frangos. He won $294,620 as the runner-up to Allen Cunningham. At the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific, Lisandro won his 6th bracelet in Event #3: A$1,650 Pot Limit Omaha, earning A$51,660. In 2009, Lisandro won the World Series of Poker Player of the Year award. An "East" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the World Series of Poker EuropeAn "A" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific.