Scott Seiver is doing his damndest to make the 2024 World Collection of Poker a lifetime achievement. Seiver gained his second bracelet this month, this time in a $1,500 Razz occasion that attracted 547 entries. He added $141,374 to his lifetime match stack of $26.2 million and the WSOP Participant of the Yr instantly in his sights.
“It’s this bizarre feeling the place you set a objective that ought to be near unimaginable after which take the steps to do it,” he informed the WSOP.
Sunday’s victory makes six WSOP bracelets for the 39-year-old. His first of the 12 months got here within the $10,000 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship simply two weeks in the past, which was good for $246,744.
Seiver wasn’t the one participant on the closing desk with WSOP {hardware}. Runner-up Brandon Shack-Harris was going for his third bracelet. He gained his second because the 2016 $10,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha 8-Handed Champion. He additionally completed as runner-up within the 2014 $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship ($937,975), in addition to $10,000 Razz Championship the identical 12 months.
Ending in fourth was Maxx Coleman, who was going for his third WSOP bracelet, whereas Ben Yu, who completed eighth, was going for his fifth.
Seiver’s multi-win 12 months continues a 25-year streak {that a} participant has gained no less than two bracelets throughout a collection (HT: Card Participant).
His second win in 2024 makes him the frontrunner within the Participant of the Yr race, though there may be greater than a month of poker left to go. He now has 2,566.73 factors, simply 676.61 in entrance of Nick Schulman, this 12 months’s Champion of the $25,000 Excessive Curler occasion.
Sitting lower than 40 factors behind Schulman is Robert Mizrachi, who gained his fifth bracelet on this 12 months’s $10,000 Sellers Selection Championship. Phil Ivey, who simply gained his eleventh bracelet, can be within the hunt with 1,755.26 factors, sitting simply forward of a pack of wolves who’re all ok to get sizzling and put themselves on high of the leaderboard by the point the WSOP ends July 21.
Befuddlingly, the WSOP has once more failed to achieve a sponsor for its Participant of the Yr prize. Toyota was the sponsor for a number of years when the prize first began in 2004 and gave the winner a truck. That bonus went away way back. Now the winners get a $10,000 entry into the 2025 Essential Occasion, a trophy, and their image on the wall.
Seiver plans to place all his effort into making certain it’s his smiling face on that banner.
“It’s your complete motivator,” Seiver informed the WSOP. “I actually, really wish to win Participant of the Yr this 12 months. I’m going to do as a lot as I can to make that occur.”
