Success in casinos runs in the family for Alex Wilkinson. His father, Wil Wilkinson, owns a casino in California and has been grinding WSOP events for 30+ years. In that time, the elder Wilkinson has pocketed more than $1 million in earnings from 20 cashes, including 8 final tables.
But it took the next generation of Wilkinson to bring the first bracelet into the family. The younger Wilkinson outlasted a field of 141 entries to take the biggest share of $1,340,910 in prizes in Event #71: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship, part of the 2025 World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.
Wilkinson Tops Schreiber, Schulman, Park, Tate, & Dzivielevski
In $10k events at the WSOP, players at the business end can expect to see familiar faces and big names across the table from them. Wilkinson’s final table in the $10k Triple-Deuce was something of a murderer’s row.
Runner-up Matthew Scheiber already had a bracelet coming into this one, while Nick Schulman, Hye Park, Brian Tate, and Yuri Dzivielevski rounded out the final six. That meant Wilkinson was facing 13 bracelets and about $34.3 million in earnings around the table.
While Wilkinson was the least experienced player at the table, with just $100k in lifetime cashes, he didn’t let the big-money players across the table intimidate him, emerging victorious for $333,054.
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Event #71: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Alexander Wilkinson | $333,054 |
| 2 | Matthew Schreiber | $215,848 |
| 3 | Nick Schulman | $144,431 |
| 4 | Hye Park | $99,885 |
| 5 | Brian Tate | $71,475 |
| 6 |  Yuri Dzivielevski | $52,985 |
Event #71: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship Final Day Recap
Wilkinson was right in the middle of the nine players coming back for the final day of play in Event #71: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship. He was in 5th place with 20 big bets, a bit more than half the stack of the leader, Schreiber.
Schulman and Dzivielevski, with 12 bracelets and more than $30 million in earnings between them, were 2nd and 3rd, respectively, for the final day, so Wilkinson was definitely up against it. It was a quick run to the seven-handed final table after Jonathan Krela and Pedro Bromfman busted within the first few minutes of the day.
Schreiber continued to lead in early play, but Wilkinson chipped up big-time when he hit an eighty-six in a three-way, three-bet pot to give him 1.5 million. Shortly after, he found another chip-up to take the lead with more than 2 million.
After the exit of Oscar Johansson got the game six-ways, Brazilian star Dzivielevski fell off his roller-coaster of a day. He saw his 3rd-place stack to start the day yo-yo all day until he hit the cage for 6th-place money when he couldn’t find a draw to an eighty-six against the king for Brian Tate.
Schulman then pipped Tate to send him out in 5th, drawing into an eighty-six to beat out Tate’s eighty-seven. Hye Park was the next to go when runner-up Scheiber made ninety-seven against Park’s ninety-eight.
That all happened in rapid succession, but the game ground to a halt three ways as Schulman, Scheiber, and Wilkinson battled for the bracelet. Schulman was looking for his 8th, while Scheiber was trying to bag #2.
The chips moved around the table for a couple of hours before the dinner break, with all three players leading at various times. After dinner, they kept battling for what seemed like an eternity, with all three players at risk on the short stack.
It was finally 7-time bracelet winner Schulman who blinked, ending his bid for #8 lifetime and #2 this year in 3rd place. He was looking good with an eight-seventy-five, but was barely pipped when Wilkinson drew perfect to his eighty-seven with a four for an eight-seventy-four.
Scheiber started heads up with the lead, but deuce is a game of swings, and Wilkinson was just hitting his stride. He quickly jumped into the lead, then chipped the start-of-day leader down to around 500k as Scheiber lamented his bad luck. “You can’t make this shit up,” Schreiber cried out as his stack fell to about 2 big bets.
It all came to an end pretty quickly with Wilkinson hitting a ten-seven. Scheiber was drawing very live, taking two cards to a seventy-six. He caught a nine to start, keeping his hopes alive, but an ace was the final nail in his coffin.
That left Wilkinson with all the chips and the bracelet. He was railed on the final by his father, Wil, whom the younger Wilkinson credits for fueling his love of the game. “Growing up, I remember sweating my dad deep in the Main Event and deep in these different tournaments on WSOP.com. I have to imagine that had a big influence on me getting into the game. It was a lot of fun. It’s cool that now the shoe is on the other foot. He’s here watching me. It’s a lot of fun.”
Looking at the winner’s photo of the Wilkinson’s, it’s hard to tell whether the son, or the father, is the happiest in this moment. Safe to say, the Wilkinson family can chalk up yet another casino success with the biggest prize poker has to offer — a Championship bracelet.
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