Sunday, June 30, 2024 10:12 PM Local Time
Determined Scott Seiver Captures 3rd 2024 Bracelet by Winning $10k No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw
For the first time since Jeff Lisandro did it in 2009, a player has won three World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets in the same summer. That individual's name is Scott Seiver, who called his shot at winning Player of the Year before the Series began.
The now seven-time bracelet winner took down Event #72: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship for $411,041, defeating Canada's Jonathan Krela heads up, with the latter taking home the consolation prize of $274,217.
Seaver bested a field of 186 entrants, who had created a prize pool of $1,729,800. In doing so, he may have secured induction into the Poker Hall of Fame when he becomes eligible next year at age 40. And, perhaps, is now a heavy favorite in the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year race.
Seiver, one of the all-time greats before the summer began, is having a Series for the ages. He predicted doing so back in May, but even he likely couldn't have expected such incredible results.
"I feel very satisfied right now," Seiver told PokerNews after the win. "I can't really describe it. I'm like on Cloud Nine right now. This just means so much to me, and it also is a step in a personal journey I've made for myself where I've had a pie-in-the-sky dream where I want to win one bracelet in every single discipline there is."
Seiver would like to win a bracelet in nine poker variants during his career, and he's already achieved five before turning 40. The champ's three bracelets in a single series puts him in elite company with Lisandro (2009), Phil Ivey (2002), Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Hellmuth (1993), and Puggy Pearson (1973).
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|
| 1 | Scott Seiver | United States | $411,041 |
| 2 | Jonathan Krela | Canada | $274,217 |
| 3 | David Lin | United States | $187,177 |
| 4 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | $130,794 |
| 5 | Jen Harman | United States | $93,615 |
| 6 | Mike Watson | Canada | $68,672 |
| 7 | Aaron Kupin | United States | $51,661 |
Day 3 Action
The tournament's final day started with nine hopefuls taking their seats at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Jason Mercier started the day in the middle of the pack but was left with 12 big blinds not long after the day had begun, which he lost against then chip leader Mike Watson. The eight remaining players moved to the feature table to begin the unofficial final table, where Robert Mizrachi was the first to go after roughly 45 minutes of play.
Mizrachi's draw to an eight failed to hit against Krela's pat nine, and the final table of seven players was set. Aaron Kupin started the day as the shortest stack but managed to make two pay jumps before falling in seventh more than an hour after Mizrachi had left when Jeremy Ausmus' eight-draw hit against his pat ten.