Scott Seiver got here into the 2024 World Series of Poker on a mission to win the WSOP Player of the Year race and cement his standing as a high Poker Hall of Fame nominee when he turns into eligible subsequent 12 months. Things have gone fairly effectively via the three weeks into the sequence, because the 39-year-old poker professional based mostly out of Las Vegas has already managed to take down two occasions. He earned his fifth profession bracelet only a handful of days into the pageant, taking down the $10,000 Omaha eight-or-better championship occasion for $426,744. Twelve days faraway from that win, he triumphed within the $1,500 razz match for his second bracelet of the summer season and his sixth total.
This victory made Seiver simply the twenty third participant in poker historical past to have reached six or extra bracelet wins. It additionally noticed him preserve a 25-year streak of no less than one participant incomes a number of bracelets in a single 12 months. Chris Ferguson kicked off this run by taking down each a $2,500 seven-card stud occasion and the WSOP major occasion in 2000. Josh Arieh, Chris Brewer, Ryan Miller, Chad Eveslage, Yuri Dzivielevski, Artur Martirosian, and Ben Wilinofsky all received a number of bracelets in 2023.
Seiver now has two bracelets in razz, becoming a member of his two no-limit maintain’em victories from 2008 and 2022. His different two wins got here in two separate $10,000 championship occasions: the 2018 restrict maintain’em championship and this 12 months’s Omaha eight-or-better championship. Below is a have a look at all of his bracelet wins.
| Year | Tournament | Top Prize |
| 2008 | $5,000 No-limit Hold’em | $755,891 |
| 2018 | $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship | $296,222 |
| 2019 | $10,000 Razz | $301,421 |
| 2022 | $2,500 Freezeout No-limit Hold’em | $320,059 |
| 2024 | $10,000 Omaha Eight-or-Better Championship | $426,744 |
| 2024 | $1,500 Razz | $141,374 |
This newest win noticed Seiver overcome a area of 547 entries. The $1,500 buy-in occasion ended up with a $730,245 prize pool which was break up up amongst the highest 83 finishers. Plenty of large names joined Seiver in working deep, together with three-time bracelet winner David ‘ODB’ baker (forty third), four-time bracelet winner Julien Martini (thirty seventh), three-time bracelet winner John Cernuto (thirty third), three-time bracelet winner Frank Kassela (twenty ninth), three-time bracelet winner Mike Gorodinsky (twenty fourth), two-time bracelet winner John Racener (sixteenth), and four-time bracelet winner Ben Yu (eighth).
Yu was the primary participant to fall on the official closing desk, working into the 8-7 low of bracelet winner Maxx Coleman to earn $13,105. Two-time bracelet winner Brandon Shack-Harris then knocked out Brad Lindsey (seventh – $17,313) to slender the sector to 6.
After Akihiro Kawaguchi (sixth – $23,349) bowed out, Seiver eradicated Sonny Osman (fifth – $32,136) with a 6-5-4-2-A. Shack-Harris knocked out Coleman in fourth place ($45,117) to go away simply three contenders remaining.
Seiver received an enormous pot with 9-7-5-3-A to each eradicate Ingo Klasen (third) and take an enormous chunk out of Shack-Harris’ stack. All of the chips quickly went in with Shack-Harris holding (5-2)J towards Seiver’s (6-4)10. Seiver made a 10-7-6-4-A ultimately, besting Shack-Harris’ Q-J-6-5-2 to win the pot and the title. Shack-Harris earned $94,247 because the runner-up.
Seiver now has greater than $26.4 million in profession match earnings after this win, with greater than $6.9 million in cashes on the WSOP. He additionally earned 840 Card Player Player of the Year factors, sufficient to maneuver inside attain of the highest 100 within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Scott Seiver | $141,374 | 840 |
| 2 | Brandon Shack-Harris | $94,247 | 700 |
| 3 | Ingo Klasen | $64,588 | 560 |
| 4 | Maxx Coleman | $45,117 | 420 |
| 5 | Sonny Osman | $32,136 | 350 |
| 6 | Kawaguchi Akihiro | $23,349 | 280 |
| 7 | Bradley Lindsey | $17,313 | 210 |
| 8 | Ben Yu | $13,105 | 140 |
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