Scott Seiver locked up his third World Sequence of Poker bracelet of the summer season on Sunday after profitable the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 lowball championship, one of many extra prestigious occasions on the schedule.
One key hand stood out en path to his newest victory, and earned him loads of reward amongst prime 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 massive 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 in the end known as all in. Chip chief Jonathan Krela then additionally known as with 10 9 7 6 4, constructing the pot to 4.3 million chips.
Krela stood pat. A really sturdy transfer given the motion in entrance of him. Though Seiver had the perfect hand together with his 10-7 low, he couldn’t comprehend it for certain, 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 in the end got here to the correct conclusion and stood pat, placing the motion again on Harman. Now seeing two pat palms in entrance of her, she made the correct name to interrupt her personal 10-9 and draw one. Sadly for the Poker Corridor of Famer, she didn’t hit and was eradicated.
Seiver practically 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 in the end, the title.
A number of 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. “Nonetheless in shock. And it received him the fucking event.”
Galen Corridor went even additional and supplied an in depth evaluation of standing pat relatively than breaking the hand.
“So, both Scott thinks patting right here in a vacuum is nice (and he might completely be proper and I may very well be fallacious), or he’d agree that breaking is often proper however he’s simply completely proudly owning Krela with a soul learn right here,” Corridor wrote.
1. Proper off the bat, I do not assume you might be speculated 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 may name and break, so he has even fewer worse tens than you assume
3. It is not like Scott has T7543, he has a…
— Galen Corridor (@galenhall) July 1, 2024
“I phrase for phrase agree with every part you wrote right here and was pondering all these items mid-hand, particularly all of the tens which might be unbreakable being the higher ones and the more serious ones having attracts,” Seiver concurred. “I believe it’s one of many greater/tougher in-game selections I’ve made, interval.”
Seiver went on to win the event with Krela taking runner-up for $274,217. The event noticed 186 entries for a $1.7 million prize pool.
Along with his trifecta of bracelets to this point this summer season, Seiver moved right into a tie for seven bracelets with John Hennigan, Billy Baxter, Males Nguyen, and Daniel Negreanu, who received his newest bracelet over the weekend within the Poker Gamers Championship. Furthermore, 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 massive 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) Could 28, 2024
The win moved Seiver again into the lead within the WSOP participant of the 12 months race, the place he presently sits virtually 400 factors forward of Jeremy Ausmus, who has made six remaining tables.
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