Mike Watson is having fairly the 2024. After almost twenty years as a prime match participant on the poker scene, he lastly earned his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet. With that victory, the 40-year-old Canadian grew to become simply the tenth participant within the historical past of the sport to have accomplished ’Poker’s Triple Crown’ in his profession, with triumphs in World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour primary occasions to go together with his lengthy awaited bracelet.
Watson has made 15 closing tables up to now this yr, coming away with 4 stay titles and his bracelet win within the WSOP Online $1,000 no-limit maintain’em six-max championship. His newest win got here within the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona €10,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em excessive curler that concluded within the closing days of that large collection. Watson outlasted a discipline of 431 entries to earn $660,478 and 1,800 Card Player Player of the Year factors.
This rating introduced Watson’s POY level complete to 7,564, which is presently good for third place on this yr’s POY leaderboard offered by Global Poker. His POY earnings for 2024 now exceed $7.4 million.
Watson’s profession match earnings have grown to $30,162,947, which is nice for fifth place on the Canadian all-time cash listing.
The prime 63 finishers earned a share of the $4.6 million prize pool on this occasion, with massive names like 10-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (twentieth), 2024 WSOP primary occasion fifth-place finisher Boris Angelov (eleventh), two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis (eighth), and bracelet winner Enrico Camosci (2nd) all working deep.
Lonis now sits only one spot under Watson within the POY standings. This was his 18th closing desk of 2024, with two titles received and seven,280 factors accrued alongside the way in which.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Michael Watson | $660,478 | 1800 |
| 2 | Enrico Camosci | $814,934 | 1500 |
| 3 | Rodrigo Araujo | $405,206 | 1200 |
| 4 | Jon Kyte | $311,633 | 900 |
| 5 | Markkos Ladev | $239,705 | 750 |
| 6 | Malcolm Franchi | $184,427 | 600 |
| 7 | Joshua Hopkins | $141,858 | 450 |
| 8 | Jesse Lonis | $116,328 | 300 |
| 9 | Enrico Coppola | $96,959 | 150 |
Photo credit score: Rational Intellectual Holdings Ltd. / Manuel Kovsca.
