Of all the poker variations, Razz is one you'll find many people with less then kind words for the lowball game. Ace to five is the nuts, and no game sets more people on tilt quicker then seeing a hand start with A234 only to be followed up with enough bricks to shelter the population of Belgium.

Katja Thater the newly crowned World Series of Poker is from nearby Germany where she's a part of PokerStars.com's growing stable of World Series of Poker bracelet winners. The $1,500 WSOP event number twenty nine featured several "name" pros as Mark Vos, Eskimo Clark, and Corona lover Men "The Master" Nguyen but Thater was able to outlast them all in the 10 hour final table.

For details on the $132,653 victory, hop over to Pokernews.com for the inside scoop. Here's a small piece of the final table pie from one of my favorite bloggers John "Falstaff" Hartness:

Katja Thater became the first woman to win an open event at the WSOP this year by outlasting seven other top-flight competitors in a grueling 13-hour finale to Event #29, $1,500 Razz. Thater was one of the few players at this final table without a WSOP bracelet, as Mark Vos, O'Neil Longson, Men 'The Master' Nguyen and Paul 'Eskimo' Clark had combined for thirteen previous World Series victories. Thater started the day firmly in the middle of the pack, with the starting seating assignments and chip counts as follows:

Seat 1: Denny Axel - 123,000
Seat 2: O'Neil Longson - 385,500
Seat 3: Larry St. Jean - 171,000
Seat 4: Mark

Vos - 84,500
Seat 5: Men Nguyen - 35,000
Seat 6: Thomas Daubert - 54,500
Seat 7: Katja Thater - 117,500
Seat 8: Paul Clark - 88,500

Thater survived several all-in situations early, doubling up first through Eskimo Clark near the end of the first hour of play when her smooth 9-low was better than Clark's rough 9-low. With a 3952 Thater called all-in on fourth and made her 9-low on fifth street with a wheel (a perfect 5-low) redraw when she caught the 4. Bricks on sixth and seventh did not improve her hand, but her 9-5 low held up against Clark's 9-7 low when he also drew poorly on sixth and seventh streets to give him a final hand of 763AT93 against Thater's 39524J5.

Thater doubled up again just a few hands later with a 7-low against Thomas Daubert's 8-low. That hand crippled Daubert momentarily, but he would triple up in the very next hand against Mark Vos and Men the Master when his 8-low was good against Vos' busted wheel draw. Vos began the hand with a 4-low through fourth street, but running aces on fifth and sixth, then a queen on seventh, left him second-best in the hand with a Q-low.