Okay, that is getting ridiculous Scott.
Scott Seiver, who at 39, continues to be one 12 months away from being eligible for the Poker Corridor of Fame, gained his third World Sequence of Poker bracelet on the 2024 video games within the $10,000 No-Restrict 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship.
Seiver got here into the Sequence with 4 bracelets and is now in a five-way tie for fifth on the all-time checklist with seven, becoming a member of Billy Baxter (who ran deep on this occasion, ending 14th), John Hennigan, Males Nguyen and up to date $50,000 Gamers Champion Daniel Negreanu, who ended a 10-year bracket drought on Friday.
Seiver was a part of a discipline of 186 entrants who generated a prize pool of $1,729,800. He took $411,041 of that, including it to a pile of 2024 cashes that features three victories. He additionally gained the $10,000 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship for $426,744, after which a $1,500 Razz occasion for $141,374.
“I really feel very happy proper now,” Seiver instructed WSOP reporters. “I can’t actually describe it. I’m like on Cloud 9 proper now. This simply means a lot to me, and it is also a step in a private journey I’ve made for myself the place I’ve had a pie-in-the-sky dream the place I need to win one bracelet in each single self-discipline there may be.”
That’s a tall order, however Seiver has crossed six disciplines off the checklist: No-Restrict 2-7 Lowball Draw, Razz, Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher, Freezeout No Restrict Maintain’em, Restrict Maintain’em and No Restrict Maintain’em (he has two in Razz).
Seiver has competitors
Seiver sits on high of the WSOP Participant of the Yr race with 3,757.01 factors, however Jermey Ausmus is true behind him with 3,368.48. Ausmus, who owns six WSOP bracelets, is doing every part besides profitable bracelets this summer season. He completed fourth on this occasion, the sixth time he’s made a ultimate desk this 12 months.
His largest money got here within the $100,000 Excessive Curler occasion the place he completed second for $1,892,260. All three of Seiver’s wins in 2024 don’t get near that quantity. It was his third million-or-more rating, pushing his lifetime complete over $20 million.
Ausmus additionally completed sixth for $200,896 within the $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship that was gained by Daniel Negreanu and seventh in the most costly buy-in occasion of the Sequence, the $250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler, for $754,052.
Behind them is Chris Hunichen, Phil Ivey, Bryce Yockey, Daniel Negreanu, and a number of others who nonetheless have time to get Seiver-hot and vault to the highest of the checklist.
Seiver sits on high by turning into the seventh participant in WSOP historical past to win three bracelets in a Sequence. Puggy Pearson did it in 1973, Phil Hellmuth and Ted Forrest in 1993, Phil Ivey in 2002, Jeffrey Lisandro in 2009, and George Danzer in 2014.
The Participant of the Yr prize has been awarded since 2002, and Lisandro and Danzer gained it within the years they scored triples.
