For the second time in less than a week, the history books have been rewritten at the 2015 World Series of Poker. After the enormous success of the Colossusand the resulting outrage over the payouts, the Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball World Championship saw its defending champion duplicate a feat that hadn’t been done since 2009.

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Seven players returned from the 109 who originally started the tournament. Much like the start had been, the final table was replete with top professional players who were looking to take down the first $10,000 tournament of the 2015 WSOP.

Tuan Le (pictured above), the defending champion of this event, surged to the lead on Monday evening with a 1.1-million chip stack, vastly outpacing the other players at the final table. Calvin cal42688Anderson was pretty much the only player who could put a serious dent in Le’s stack with his 552,000 in chips, but Max Casal, Ismael Bojang,Phil Galfond, Rep Porter, and James Andy McLEOD Obst were determined to put their names in the mix.

Le, the 2005 World Poker Tour Championship winner, wasted little time in punishing his opposition. From the moment the cards hit the air, Le was gunning for anyone with chips in front of them, taking the first three hands played.

Anderson attempted to cut some chips out of Le, but every time he came up against the defending champion, Anderson came out on the losing end of the fight. After losing one big pot in particular, Anderson was left with only 42,000 in chips. Those went to Bojang after Anderson made a higher pair than Bojang, ending the online superstar’s tournament in seventh place.

Now at the official WSOP final table, Le continued to roll. He knocked off Porter in sixth place with his 8-5 winning over Porter’s 9-7 to crack the 1.5-million chip mark while the remainder of the table scrapped amongst themselves. Casal eliminated Obst(pictured) in fifth place to become a serious contender in the tournament, but Le kept him at bay by taking down Galfond in fourth place in a Lowball surprise for the ages.

After Galfond three-bet the open and Le four-bet, Galfond made the call for his final chips and drew one card against Le’s two. Apparently that one card was good enough for Galfond, as he stood pat on the second draw while Le once again tossed two more cards to the muck.

The third draw was a repeat of the second and, after Le received his two new cards, Galfond showed 9-7-4-3-2 in his attempt to double up. Le turned up the three cards he kept through the hand, 8-6-2, which was the start of a better low than Galfond, but would have to hit perfect on the last two cards to hold up.

Le squeezed out one card, a five that was a helper, and now only needed a seven, four, or three to win the hand. Le once again dramatically squeezed out his final draw card and triumphantly smacked the table with a seven to defeat Galfond (pictured) and pass the 2.5 million barrier.

On the very next hand, Casal eliminated Bojang in third place and go heads-up against Le at a significant disadvantage. Le’s 2.57 million chips dwarfed Casal’s 715,000, but Casal had a slight advantage: both he and Le were quite familiar with each other from their cash game days in Los Angeles at the Commerce Casino.

Casal worked the lead down to only 130,000 at one point, but he could never claim the lead against Le, who used a jack-low to defeat Casal’s pair of threes to capture this tournament for the second year in a row.

Le became the first person to repeat as the champion of the same event at the WSOP since Thang Luu won $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo Eight or Better titles in 2008 and 2009. In addition to the additional gold bracelet around his wrist, Le pocketed $322,756 and etched his name into the WSOP history books.

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