Mike Watson is having fairly the 2024. After practically 20 years as a prime event participant on the poker scene, he lastly earned his first World Sequence 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 fundamental occasions to go together with his lengthy awaited bracelet.
Watson has made 15 closing tables to date this 12 months, coming away with 4 reside titles and his bracelet win within the WSOP On-line $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 area of 431 entries to earn $660,478 and 1,800 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors.
This rating introduced Watson’s POY level complete to 7,564, which is presently good for third place on this 12 months’s POY leaderboard introduced by World Poker. His POY earnings for 2024 now exceed $7.4 million.
Watson’s profession event earnings have grown to $30,162,947, which is nice for fifth place on the Canadian all-time cash listing.
The highest 63 finishers earned a share of the $4.6 million prize pool on this occasion, with huge names like 10-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (twentieth), 2024 WSOP fundamental 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 beneath Watson within the POY standings. This was his 18th closing desk of 2024, with two titles gained and seven,280 factors accrued alongside the way in which.
Here’s a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
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
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