Scott Seiver Wins Fifth Career World Series of Poker Bracelet

Scott Seiver gained his first World Series of Poker bracelet again in 2008, taking down the $5,000 no-limit maintain’em occasion for his first piece of WSOP {hardware}. Seiver then needed to wait one other decade earlier than securing his second title on the collection, which kicked off a spree. He has now gained 4 bracelets within the final six years, together with his most up-to-date coming within the 2024 $10,000 Omaha eight-or-better championship. Seiver defeated a discipline of 171 entries to earn his fifth general bracelet and the highest prize of $426,744.

“I made a decision this summer to really focus on tournaments and try to give it my A-game, at a level that I haven’t always done here… so to just come and win the first $10k, it feels very validating,” stated Seiver in an interview with PokerGO reporters after popping out on high.

The 39-year-old New York native, now primarily based out of Las Vegas, has accrued practically $26.2 million in profession match earnings throughout his profession regardless of not being a year-round match grinder. Three of his 5 WSOP wins have are available $10,000 championship occasions, with the earlier two being the 2018 restrict maintain’em championship and the 2019 razz championship. His fourth bracelet got here in a $2,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em freezeout occasion.

Seiver is at the moment one of simply 37 gamers in poker historical past to have gained 5 or extra bracelets.

This was the primary title and final-table end of the 12 months for Seiver, who earned 780 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. He additionally secured 427 PokerGO Tour factors, sufficient to catapult him inside the highest 20 on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

This occasion ran over the course of 4 days. The high 30 finishers earned a share of the $1,590,300 prize pool, with six-figure paydays for the ultimate 5. Plenty of massive names ran deep, together with two-time bracelet winner Tom Koral (18th), seven-time bracelet winner John Hennigan (seventeenth), bracelet winner Naoya Kihara (sixteenth), four-time bracelet winner Robert Mizrachi (14th), bracelet winner and 2010 WSOP predominant occasion runner-up John Racener (eleventh), Jared Bleznick (eighth), Jake Schwartz (seventh), and five-time bracelet winner Benny Glaser (sixth).

Day 3 ended after the elimination of Sami Saad El-Dein in fifth place ($101,853). Seiver bagged up the chip lead among the many remaining 4. Paul Zappulla was the primary to fall, together with his AJ105 getting scooped by the A864 of four-time bracelet winner Calvin Anderson, who flopped quad fours and made the second-nut low by the river. Zappulla cashed for $140,273 because the fourth-place finisher.

Three-handed play lasted practically 5 hours, with lots of swings alongside the best way. Eventually, Anderson acquired the final of his stack in preflop with QQ22 going through the AA85 of Seiver. The board ran out 77563 and Seiver’s aces gained the excessive aspect, whereas his A-8 performed for the low. Anderson earned $197,582 because the third-place finisher, rising his profession complete to $6.2 million.

Heads-up play started with Seiver holding roughly a 3:1 chip benefit over Jonathan Cohen, a bracelet winner from Canada. Seiver pulled even additional forward earlier than the ultimate hand of the match was dealt. He raised from the button with A984 and Cohen referred to as all-in for lower than two massive blinds with Okay854. The board got here down OkayJJ710, giving Seiver a jack-high straight for the news. Cohen earned $284,495 because the runner-up, a new-high rating for the Montreal resident. His prior high money was the $245,678 he earned for profitable the 2022 WSOP $10,000 restrict maintain’em championship.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the last desk:

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