Jeff Lisandro

infobox poker player
firstname=Jeff
lastname=Lisandro
nickname=Iceman

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caption=Lisandro after winning the $2,000 seven-card stud event at the 2007 World Series of Poker
hometown=Salerno, Italy
wsop bracelet count=1
wsop money finishes=24
wsop main event best finish rank=17th
wsop main event best finish year=2006
multi-year wsop winner=
wpt titles="None"
wpt final tables=0
wpt money finishes=1
ept titles="None"
ept final tables=1
ept money finishes=1

Jeffrey Lisandro (born in Perth) is an Australian professional poker player, now residing in Salerno, Italy.

Lisandro is known by many to be a cash game specialist, but is a well-known face on the poker tournament circuit.

His mother taught him how to play poker at the age of five.

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. He has made four WSOP final tables since then, in Omaha, seven card stud and 2 to 7 lowball events.

Lisandro has not yet made a final table on the World Poker Tour (WPT), but has finished in the money in one event.

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.

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. Lisandro has said that he considers this to be one of his greatest achievements, as he rates Ivey to be one of the best players in the world.

Lisandro finished 17th in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event, winning $659,730. 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 "knock his head off". Friedman tried to settle things with Lisandro afterwards during play, but Lisandro refused to talk to him. However, their attempt to reconcile did have one light moment after a player at their table, after learning that Lisandro was from Italy, told Jeff that 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?"

He 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.

Lisandro plays online at PokerStars and is a good friend of Jean-Robert Bellande. He is known for chewing gum at the poker table to reduce tells.

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,100,000. [ [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=311 Hendon Mob tournament results] ]

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.

In addition to his residence in Salerno, he also owns a property in Santa Barbara, California.

References

External links

* [http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/9079 cardplayer.com Jeffrey Lisandro Wins His First Bracelet]