Winning a World Series of Poker bracelet is the dream for most players, one that the majority of grinders will never achieve. Winning a single bracelet immediately elevates a player’s status in the game.
Winning a second bracelet is even rarer, and puts a player squarely into the poker elite. But winning two bracelets in the same event in successive years? That’s a feat for the ages, something accomplished by only a few players in history.
Aaron Cummings became one of them late Wednesday night at the 2025 WSOP at Horseshoe & Paris, Las Vegas, after capturing his second deuce bracelet in Event #63: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw. His first bracelet came in 2024 in the 6-handed triple-deuce, so while this isn’t technically a “back to back” in the same event, two bracelets in the same discipline in successive years, especially at the $1,500 level where fields are bigger, is a significant achievement.
For this one, Cummings had to navigate a 635-entry field for his winning share ($157,172) of the $842,963 in total prizes. The win put Cummings’ lifetime earnings over $450k and was his biggest ever score, just capping his 2024 bracelet result.
Event #63: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Aaron Cummings | $157,172 |
| 2 | Travis Erdman | $104,739 |
| 3 | James Tilton | $70,121 |
| 4 | Kristan Lord | $47,969 |
| 5 | David Mead | $33,546 |
| 6 |  Andres Korn | $23,995 |
| 7 | Nathan Gamble | $17,563 |
Event #63: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Final Table Recap
Cummings wasn’t the dominant force in this one from the beginning. He was 7th in chips coming to the final day of play and, while the “back-to-back” narrative was in his head, he told PokerNews after the win that he wasn’t focused on it. “I definitely thought about [going back-to-back]” Cummings said. “But it’s still a long battle to get there. I was a little short coming into the day, so I knew it was going to be tough. But obviously there’s a chance.”
Eleven players returned to the action for the final day of play, with names like Brandon Shack-Harris, Jon Turner, Nathan Gamble, runner-up Travis Erdman, Andres Korn, and Day 3 chip leader Hideki Nakamura standing in the way of Cummings’ second bracelet. They got to the 7-handed final table within a couple of hours, with Nakamura bubbing the FT.
Erdman led the final table to start, but he and Cummings were the clear bosses on the table and it seemed inevitable early on that they’d be heads up. James Tilton ended his day for 3rd place to set up the two-way battle, with Erdman taking the lead into heads up, then extending it to more than 3:1 early.
Cummings bounced back, but the lead was destined to change a couple of more times before the final hands were played. Both players had shots to win it as both were on the ropes at various times during heads up play. Limit poker is often about momementum, and that is even more true in a “no info” game like deuce.
Cummings found some momentum late with three 9’s in a row to take a big lead. Erdman managed to double back once when Cummings paired and Erdman drew into a nine-low, and looked like they might be set for an even longer night, but they got it in shortly after with the eventual winner drawing one to a seventy-five against a single draw to a ninety-seven.
Cummings squeezed his draw first and showed a jack for jack-seven, meaning Erdman could double again with a ten, eight, six, five, or three. He revealed an ace, however, and sent the rest of his chips to the back-to-back champion.
