A new, first-time champion bracelet winner emerged at the 2009 WSOP Seven-Card Stud event. Freddie Ellis, a 74-year old real estate broker from Brooklyn, NY took the honors. Ellis was born in Miami, FL and moved to NYC to become professional singer. He did appear in many popular nightclubs and actually recorded some records on the Decca label. Once he married, he stopped touring and turned his attention to real estate, where he made a fortune. Ellis became a regular weekend online poker player in Atlantic City, his favorite game being the $600-1,200 cash limit “Mixed Game” at the Borgata, instead of playing at the casino online. The buy-in was $10,000 and drew 142 entrants, with a prize pool total of $1,134,800. The final table took a grueling 13 hours to complete before Ellis was the last player standing. There were three former WSOP bracelet winners at the table, Max Pescatori, Hasan Habib, and Jeffrey Lisandro. It was his first WSOP entry ever and he took home $373,751 in addition to the bracelet. Ellis outplayed several well-known online poker pros, including Daniel Negreanu. The runner-up was Eric Drache from Las Vegas, who is an acknowledged expert in seven-card stud and was in the hunt for his first bracelet. The two finalists played heads-up for more than four hours. The match drew lots of onlookers, with many famous poker celebrities stopping by to check out the action.

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