Scott Seiver did it once more. The 39-year-old skilled gained his fifth World Collection of Poker bracelet within the $10,000 Omaha Hello-Lo or Higher Championship this week for $426,744. It’s his second bracelet in a “championship” occasion.
“This was exhausting,” he informed a WSOP reporter. “I wouldn’t be shocked if this was one in every of if not the longest non-Predominant Occasion event there was. I really feel nice now that I’ve gained.”
The four-day occasion attracted 197 who created a prize pool of $1,832,100. Seiver’s 72 WSOP cashes places him at $6.7 million, and with the victory, his lifetime quantity shot above $26 million.
The 5 bracelet membership is a crowded with 15 gamers, together with Poker Corridor of Famers Eli Elezra, Scotty Nguyen and Stu Unger, Allen Cunningham, Michael Mizrachi, John Juanda, Adam Friedman, Brian Yoon, and Benny Glaser, who completed sixth right here.
They’re all 12 away from Phil Hellmuth and his 17 bracelets.
Seiver gained his first bracelet in a 2008 $5,000 no-limit occasion for $755,891. It then took him a full decade to win his second within the $10,000 restrict championship in 2018 for $292,222. The very subsequent yr he gained the $10,000 Razz occasion for $301,421.
His fourth bracelet got here within the $2,500 freezeout occasion in 2022.
Seiver additionally has three runner-up finishes in WSOP occasions: The 2022 $10,000 2-7 lowball draw championship, the 2018 $2,500 blended triple draw lowball occasion, and the 2013 $2,500 seven card stud occasion. He’s completed tenth or higher in WSOP occasions 23 instances.
These finishes embrace ultimate tables in a number of the extra prestigious occasions that happen on the WSOP — a seventh-place end within the $50,000 Participant’s Championship in 2011, a sixth within the $1 million buy-in Large One for One Drop in 2014, and a fifth within the $10,000 HORSE championship in 2023 are a number of.
Away from the WSOP, his greatest money of $5.1 million got here for ending second within the $500,000 buy-in Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl in 2015. He cashed for $2 million for successful the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Journey. He additionally gained the 2011 $25,000 buy-in 5 Star World Poker Traditional on the World Poker Tour for $1.6 million.
And he gained’t be eligible for the Poker corridor of Fame till he turns 40 subsequent yr.
