Jeff Lisandro
{{short description|Italo-Australian poker player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
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|name=Jeff Lisandro
|nickname=Iceman
|image=JeffLisandro.jpg
|caption=Lisandro after winning the $2,000 seven-card stud event at the 2007 World Series of Poker
|hometown=Salerno, Italy
|wsop bracelet count=6
|wsop money finishes=68{{Cite web |title=Jeff Lisandro |url=https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=745 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=WSOP.com}}
|wsop main event best finish rank=17th
|wsop main event best finish year=2006
|multi-year wsop winner=
|wpt titles=None
|wpt final tables=None
|wpt money finishes=2{{Cite web |title=Jeffrey Lisandro |url=https://www.worldpokertour.com/player/jeffrey-lisandro/ |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=World Poker Tour |language=en-US}}
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|updated=2018-06-17
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Jeffrey Lisandro (born in Perth) is an Italian Australian professional poker player, now residing in Salerno, Italy.
Lisandro is known as a cash game specialist, but he also plays often in the poker tournament circuit and is regarded as one of the premier Seven Card Stud players in the world.
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 Stud High, Stud High-Low, and Razz, earning him the Player of the Year title.
Poker career
Growing up near Salerno, Italy, Lisandro's mother taught him how to play poker at the age of five.{{cn|date=December 2023}}
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.{{Cite web |title=28th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1997, Hold'em Pot Limit |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=7811 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} 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 Stud, one in Seven Card Stud hi/low, one in Razz, and one in Pot-Limit Omaha.
Lisandro has not yet made a final table on the World Poker Tour (WPT), but has finished in the money in two events.{{Cite web |title=Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, World Poker Tour Championship - No Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=8286 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=World Poker Tour - WPT Australia, No Limit Hold'em - Opening Event Mystery Bounty (Event 1) |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=849147 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Heads Up Limit Hold'em Tournament, Main Event Final |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=11401 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Harrah's Lake Tahoe Poker Festival, WSOP Circuit Championship Event - No Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=11395 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
Lisandro finished 17th in the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, winning $659,730.{{Cite web |title=37th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2006, No Limit Texas Hold'em - World Championship Event |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=15849 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} 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".{{Cite web |last=Cahlik |first=Josh |date=3 June 2014 |title=Jeff Lisandro vs. Prahlad Friedman |url=https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2014-wsop/event-13/chips.86421.htm |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=PokerNews.com |language=en}} Friedman tried to settle things with Lisandro afterwards during play, but Lisandro refused to talk to him. However, there was one light moment at the table when another player, after learning that Lisandro was from Italy, said his wife was also from Italy and that he and his wife planned to travel there to visit her parents. Lisandro asked him, "Can you take him [Friedman] with you?"
Lisandro 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.{{Cite web |title=38th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2007, Seven Card Stud |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=26176 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=38th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2007, World Championship Pot Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=26157 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
In 2009, Lisandro won the World Series of Poker Player of the Year award.{{Cite web |last=Oresteen |first=Paul |date=28 July 2009 |title=Jeffrey Lisandro Wins WSOP POY |url=https://www.wsop.com/news/2009/Jul/2535/Jeffrey-Lisandro-Wins-WSOP-POY.html |access-date=31 March 2022 |website=WSOP.com}} He was also inducted into the Australian Poker Hall of Fame that same year.{{Cite web |title=Australian Poker Hall of Fame |url=https://www.pokernetwork.com/australian-poker-hall-of-fame/ |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=PokerNetwork.com}}
At the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific, Lisandro won his sixth bracelet in Event #3: A$1,650 Pot Limit Omaha, earning A$51,660.{{Cite web |title=World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific - WSOP APAC 2014, Pot Limit Omaha |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=223078 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
As of 2023, his total live tournament winnings exceed $5,800,000.{{Cite web |title=Jeff Lisandro's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=311 |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
World Series of Poker bracelets
| class="wikitable"
! style="background: #E9E9E9;" | Year ! style="background: #E9E9E9;" | Event ! style="background: #E9E9E9;" | Prize Money |
| 2007
| $2,000 Seven-Card Stud | $118,426 |
| 2009
| $1,500 Seven-Card Stud | $124,959 |
| 2009
| $10,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud-8 or better | $431,656 |
| 2009
| $2,500 Razz | $188,370 |
| 2010E
| £5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha | £159,514 |
| 2014A
| A$1,650 Pot Limit Omaha | A$51,660 |
An "E" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the World Series of Poker Europe
An "A" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific
References
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External links
- [https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/2941-jeffrey-lisandro Card Player profile]
- [https://www.globalpokerindex.com/poker-players/jeff-lisandro-311/ Global Poker Index profile]
- [https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=311 Hendon Mob profile]
- [https://www.pokernews.com/poker-players/jeff-lisandro/ PokerNews profile]
- [https://www.worldpokertour.com/player/jeffrey-lisandro/ WPT profile]
- [https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=745 WSOP profile]
{{World Series of Poker Player of the Year Award Winners}}
{{European Poker Awards Outstanding Tournament Performance of the Year Winners}}
{{2000s WSOP Bracelet Winners}}
{{2010s WSOP Bracelet Winners}}
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Category:Australian poker players
Category:Italian poker players
Category:World Series of Poker Circuit event winners
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)