Scott Seiver is doing his damndest to make the 2024 World Series of Poker a lifetime achievement. Seiver won his second bracelet this month, this time in a $1,500 Razz event that attracted 547 entries. He added $141,374 to his lifetime tournament stack of $26.2 million and the WSOP Player of the Year directly in his sights.
“It’s this weird feeling where you set a goal that should be close to impossible and then take the steps to do it,” he told the WSOP.
Sunday’s victory makes six WSOP bracelets for the 39-year-old. His first of the year came in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship just two weeks ago, which was good for $246,744.
Seiver wasn’t the only player at the final table with WSOP hardware. Runner-up Brandon Shack-Harris was going for his third bracelet. He won his second as the 2016 $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Champion. He also finished as runner-up in the 2014 $50,000 Poker Players Championship ($937,975), as well as $10,000 Razz Championship the same year.
Finishing in fourth was Maxx Coleman, who was going for his third WSOP bracelet, while Ben Yu, who finished eighth, was going for his fifth.
Seiver’s multi-win year continues a 25-year streak that a player has won at least two bracelets during a series (HT: Card Player).
His second win in 2024 makes him the frontrunner in the Player of the Year race, although there is more than a month of poker left to go. He now has 2,566.73 points, just 676.61 in front of Nick Schulman, this year’s Champion of the $25,000 High Roller event.
Sitting less than 40 points behind Schulman is Robert Mizrachi, who won his fifth bracelet in this year’s $10,000 Dealers Choice Championship. Phil Ivey, who just won his eleventh bracelet, is also in the hunt with 1,755.26 points, sitting just ahead of a pack of wolves who are all good enough to get hot and put themselves on top of the leaderboard by the time the WSOP ends July 21.
Befuddlingly, the WSOP has again failed to gain a sponsor for its Player of the Year prize. Toyota was the sponsor for several years when the prize first started in 2004 and gave the winner a truck. That bonus went away long ago. Now the winners get a $10,000 entry into the 2025 Main Event, a trophy, and their picture on the wall.
Seiver plans to put all his effort into ensuring it’s his smiling face on that banner.
“It’s the entire motivator,” Seiver told the WSOP. “I really, truly want to win Player of the Year this year. I’m going to do as much as I can to make that happen.”
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Seiver | United States | $141,374 |
| 2 | Brandon Shack-Harris | United States | $94,247 |
| 3 | Ingo Klasen | Germany | $64,588 |
| 4 | Maxx Coleman | United States | $45,117 |
| 5 | Soner Osman | United Kingdom | $32,136 |
| 6 | Akihiro Kawaguchi | Japan | $23,349 |
| 7 | Brad Lindsey | United States | $17,313 |
| 8 | Ben Yu | United States | $13,105 |
| 9 | Steven Abitbol | France | $10,132 |
