Scott Seiver locked up his third World Series of Poker bracelet of the summer season on Sunday after profitable the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 lowball championship, one of the extra prestigious occasions on the schedule.
One key hand stood out en path to his newest victory, and earned him lots of reward amongst high execs for the seven-time bracelet winner’s above-the-rim play.
PokerGO caught the motion with 5 gamers remaining and blinds at 50,000-100,000 with a 150,000 large blind ante. Seiver was dealt 10
7 5
3 2
, an honest, however convertible hand, and moved all in with the final of his 1.5 million chips.
Jennifer Harman checked out 10 9
4 3 2 with 1.2 million chips remaining. She had a tricky determination however finally referred to as all in. Chip chief Jonathan Krela then additionally referred to as with 10 9 7 6 4, constructing the pot to 4.3 million chips.
Krela stood pat. A really robust transfer given the motion in entrance of him. Although Seiver had the perfect hand along with his 10-7 low, he couldn’t comprehend it for positive, and had a tempting one-card draw to enhance ought to he resolve to throw away his 10.
Watch how the hand performed out under.
Three-way all in
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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 1, 2024
Seiver finally got here to the best conclusion and stood pat, placing the motion again on Harman. Now seeing two pat arms in entrance of her, she made the best name to interrupt her personal 10-9 and draw one. Unfortunately for the Poker Hall of Famer, she didn’t hit and was eradicated.
Seiver almost tripled up after he noticed that his 10-7 beat Krela’s 10-9, and the pot put him proper again in rivalry. He rode that momentum to a heads-up match with Krela, and finally, the title.
Several execs took to Twitter to touch upon Seiver’s gutsy transfer with 10-high.
“This pat behind by Scott Seiver is heroic,” high-stakes professional Dan Smith famous. “Still in shock. And it won him the fucking tournament.”
Galen Hall went even additional and provided an in depth evaluation of standing pat moderately than breaking the hand.
“So, either Scott thinks patting here in a vacuum is good (and he could totally be right and I could be wrong), or he’d agree that breaking is typically right but he’s just absolutely owning Krela with a soul read here,” Hall wrote.
1. Right off the bat, I do not suppose you’re supposed to name a 15bb jam and a name OOP to each with a weak pat T as Krela does right here
2. Some worse Ts like T8432 he would possibly name and break, so he has even fewer worse tens than you suppose
3. It’s not like Scott has T7543, he has a…
— Galen Hall (@galenhall) July 1, 2024
“I word for word agree with everything you wrote here and was thinking all these things mid-hand, especially all the tens that are unbreakable being the better ones and the worse ones having draws,” Seiver concurred. “I think it’s one of the bigger/harder in-game decisions I’ve made, period.”
Seiver went on to win the match with Krela taking runner-up for $274,217. The match noticed 186 entries for a $1.7 million prize pool.
With his trifecta of bracelets up to now this summer season, Seiver moved right into a tie for seven bracelets with John Hennigan, Billy Baxter, Men Nguyen, and Daniel Negreanu, who received his newest bracelet over the weekend within the Poker Players Championship. Moreover, it has received him fairly a bit past the $1.1 million in cashes he’s racked up within the month of June alone.
seeking to get large motion down on POY both h2h with folks drafted decrease or close to me or bracelet bets vs folks or direct odds to win a bracelet Dms open https://t.co/MhrMTEgd56
— Scott Seiver (@scott_seiver) May 28, 2024
The win moved Seiver again into the lead within the WSOP participant of the yr race, the place he presently sits nearly 400 factors forward of Jeremy Ausmus, who has made six last tables.
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