2010 WSOP: David Warga Wins Event 27 $1,500 buy-in Seven Card Stud High-Low Split

644 poker players entered Event 27 of the 2010 World Series of Poker, a $1,500 buy-in Seven Card Stud High-Low Split tournament. 64 places were to be paid with the first place prize earning a very healthy $208,862 and a WSOP gold bracelet.

The big winner of the 644 players was poker pro David Warga, who won his second WSOP gold bracelet following a previous win in 2002, when he won the 2002 Casino Employees Championship.
 
41 year old David Warga won his first bracelet in the 2002 Casino Employees Championship when he was a dealer at an Arizona casino. He used his winnings to become a real estate investor before deciding to become a poker pro. David Warga is the only player in WSOP history to win the Casino Employees championshp and an open event.

The runner up was Maxwell Troy, a professional poker player from Los Angeles, California, who plays Seven Card Stud daily at the Commerce Casino. His experience did him well as he cashed in $129,253 for his second place finish. It also marks the third time for Maxwell Troy to cash in a WSOP Stud event, and his fourth career WSOP cash.

The third place finisher was longtime tournament veteran David Levi -- an Israeli-born poker pro from Las Vegas, Nevada - who earned With his third-place cash, David Levi neared the half-million dollar mark in career WSOP winnings after collecting $87,400 in this event.

The fourth-place finisher was well-known poker pro, Karina Jett, who has numerous cashes over the past decade, and earned $60,588 for this finish.

The fifth-place finisher was Christopher George from Hudson, New York, who cashed for the second time this 2010 WSOP in both Stud High-Low tournaments. This time he got paid $42,913.

The sixth-place finisher was Jonathan Bascom from Oxford, Maryland, who marked his second WSOP cash worth $31,046.

The seventh-place finisher was Chris Tryba, who has eight WSOP Circuit cashes and his third time to cash at He earned $22,926.

The eighth-place finisher was poker pro Allen Bari from West Orange, New Jersey, who made his ninth WSOP career cash for $17,274.

Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Andre Boyer, Vince Burgio, Brandon Cantu, Scott Clements, Phil Ivey, Chris Reslock, James Richburg and Blair Rodman.
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