Dylan Smith Is Three-Handed for a Bracelet in the $1,500 2-7 Lowball Draw

Dylan Smith is three-handed for a WSOP bracelet in Event #12, the $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw — and 49 fantasy points are already banked for the team that drafted him.

That team belongs to Spitework (Wantman) in the $25k Fantasy contest at 25kfantasy.com, and the sweat is very much alive. Smith's ceiling sits at 84 points if he closes it out — a margin of 35 additional points that could reshape leaderboard math in a contest where single-digit gaps decide payouts.

Smith's ceiling sits at 84 points if he closes it out — a margin of 35 additional points that could reshape leaderboard math in a contest where single-digit gaps decide payouts.

From Six to Three in One Session

Smith made the six-handed final table of the seven-handed draw event earlier on June 2. At that point, ODB tracking on Charlotte's fantasy sweat page showed 34 locked points for Spitework's roster. Within a few hours, Smith had eliminated half the remaining field. By the time three players remained, his locked total had jumped to 49 — a 15-point swing that reflects both the payout ladder he's already climbed and the escalating points-per-place structure near the top.

The $1,500 2-7 Lowball Draw is a niche event by WSOP standards. Seven-handed play, a small-field specialist format, and the kind of structure that rewards players who actually know the game rather than those who wandered in from the $1,500 Hold'em flight. Making a final table here requires draw-game chops. Getting to three-handed requires closing ability.

The Fantasy Angle

For the 25kFantasy field, Smith's run is the kind of asymmetric outcome that separates rosters. His 49 locked points are guaranteed floor value — the points are in the bank regardless of what happens next. But the 84-point ceiling means a win would deliver an additional 35 points on top, nearly doubling the locked haul. That's the gap between a roster-filler and a week-winner.

Spitework (Wantman) is the team sweating this one, and the calculus is straightforward: every elimination Smith notches from here carries outsized fantasy value because the points-per-place curve steepens dramatically at a three-handed final table.

What a Bracelet Would Mean

A first career WSOP bracelet in a draw format would stamp Smith as one of the summer's early stories. The 2-7 Lowball Draw doesn't generate the Twitter clips that a No-Limit Hold'em final table does, but inside the rooms that matter — the mixed-game section at Aria, the draw-game tables at Bellagio — a bracelet in Event #12 carries real weight.

Smith is two eliminations away. The locked points are already his. The bracelet is still on the table.