Phil Ivey and Brock “T_Soprano” Parker have both left indelible marks on this years World Series of Poker.  Ivey with brute force, double and triple barrelled his way through smallish high discipline fields to win his bracelets. With all the money he’s won on the prop bets it’s likely he’ll win more than the Main Event champion. While nobody keeps track of who is killing the rich cash side games, you’d have to imagine Ivey has had the most successful Series ever.
 
More easily quantifiable is Brock Parker’s two titles. He started the series with zero bracelets and now has two. He has transitioned from successful online poker player to simply successful poker player with little alteration of his poker strategy.
Now, though a third man has won his second bracelet of this series. And the backstory is a little bit like Ivey’s and a little bit like Parker’s. Jeffrey Lisandro is engaged in a largish prop bet with Barry Greenstein as his partner vs. Eric Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu. Most player of the Year points will decide the winner. You get a lot of points for each bracelet you win, so despite the great run this year by Negreanu, things are looking up for Lisandro. No telling who else they’ve prop betted with as well.

Parker denied Negreanu a bracelet and a lot of points. Lisandro, however, was not to be denied. A couple of years ago, Lisandro was on the short list of great poker players in the world without a World Series of Poker bracelet.

That changed in 2007 when he captured first in the $2k Seven Card Stud event. This year Lisandro, as Parker did, has added two bracelets to his resume, now owning the hardware his skill warrants. After winning the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event, for $124,959 Lisandro did the double by winning the $10k Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo World Championship. The 10k championship was a war, as Lisandro contended with such notables as Doyle Brunson and Scotty Nguyen late.

With his second bracelet, Lisandro moved into a tie with Ville Wahlbeck (who narrowly missed winning a second bracelet a couple of times) atop the WSOP POY leaderboard. Those POY points made his prop partner Barry Greenstein a very happy man. Lisandro has won $619,131, so far this year. He’s cashed a total of five times and upped his lifetime tournament earnings to almost $4 million.

Out of the two time bracelet winners, one may be have a leg up on the others. Phil Ivey has already won three bracelets in a World Series and has to be considered the favorite to win a third, but we’ve learned never to discount Parker, and now Lisandro.