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  Ryan Hughes is the first person in WSOP history to have a Stud hi/lo bracelet for each wrist. To accomplish this feat he had to overcome a Day 2 mini-disaster that put a hurt on his stack just before the end of play, and a final day field where he was in 9th place out of the remaining 13 players.



  Even though starting towards the back of the pack, he was the lead dog by the time the final table rolled around. After having a bit of a stumble, and temporarily losing his lead to Alessio Isaia, Ryan reasserted his dominance by making his first "final table" victim a name synonymous with good, sound poker: David Sklansky.



  Today was David's second final table in less than a week, but just like his first appearance, he was going away without any new jewelry for his wrist. Sklansky was all in during a three-way pot, and wound up odd man out when Tim D'Alessandro scored the high with three Aces and Ryan Hughes owned the low. David was gone in 8th place.



  Jonas Klausen took his turn as chip leader after his Aces overpowered Joshua Feldman's Jacks. Joshua was out in 7th place, and Jonas was now the leader.



  Klausen's time at the top was over before it even got started. Ryan Hughes reclaimed the top spot when he decided to take his place at the top back from Klausen. Hughes won a high only pot that dethroned Jonas and pretty much rendered him impotent for the rest of the tournament.



  After some small stack clashes that were like watching a couple of wiener dogs have a go at each other, Tim D'Alessandro was eliminated in 6th place. After Tim was kicked to the curb, Ryan Hughes began to blitzkrieg the table.



  He finished what he had started several hands before by eliminating Jonas Klausen in 5th place, and also ended the day of former chip leader Alessio Isaia.



  Thomas Hunt III was next in the game of poker whack-a-mole that Hughes was playing at the table. Hunt went all in with a pair of deuces, but got smacked down by Ryan's split threes.



  Finally it came down to Ryan Hughes and his stack of 1,317,000 against Ron Long and his bump of 315,000. Ron Long had won a Stud hi/lo event in 1999, and Ryan had taken another in 2007. Both were not only playing for the bracelet, and the money, but for history as well.



  While Ron Long had staged a few charges, taking three pots in a row at one point, overall this heads up encounter looked like a Grizzly bear vs. a Belgian Waffle. Hughes was never in any real danger and he ended it when he floated a boat over Long's Kings. The 7-7-7-3-3 full house gave him the title, the jewelry, the money, and a place in WSOP history.



  Congratulations to Ryan Hughes on this historic victory!