It wasn't quite an absence measured in dog years, but it was close. Jack Zwerner's 6 year hiatus between his last cash in and then his first place success in 2006 must have felt like he was buried with the bone. But all it took was that first place – in no less than Event 8 of the 2006 World Series of Poker – to feel alive again at the poker table.
Often associated as a cash game player, Zwerner was born and raised in sunny Miami Beach, Florida, but has been living for the past 40 years in Las Vegas. If you are a cash game player, is there a better place to live? It was probably tough for Jack, too, to know that there were other players out there cashing in, and cashing in big, during his 6-year "drought" or absence. And yet can there be a better way to come back than to haul in $341,426 after winning the WSOP Omaha Hi/Lo event? Barely - Omaha Hi Lo Split is Zwerner's passion, and at the WSOP he played against, of course, world-class competition. Jack is considered by many a humble fellow, and he might even tell you that his amazing run of starting hands in that tourney was lucky - even when he was head-to-head with Randy Mandap. But, as we all know, luck alone won't take you too far. Zwerner has his poker chops, and seems back in the game with a vengeance after his whopping WSOP win. Now the big question is, does he dare take another "vacation" from the tables in the near future? Or has his latest big win rejuvenated his poker juices and made him hungry for a more active poker life?
