Scott Seiver has won his sixth WSOP bracelet after emerging victorious in Event #40: $1,500 Razz, putting him in the top 20 of all time WSOP winners.
The 39-year-old American won his first WSOP event in 2008 and waited a decade for more success, just like Phil Ivey, but now he’s won five more in the last seven series.
Final Action
As the final nine sat to stake their claims for glory, it took more than an hour before the first candidate made the walk to the rail.
Steven Abitbol was the first victim of Scott Seiver as the latter drew an eight low on seventh street to evict his opponent from the table.
Then two more hours passed before four-time bracelet winner Ben Yu ran out of luck.
Brad Lindsey and Japan’s Akihiro Kawaguchi soon followed and it began to look as if they would all fall one-by-one in quick succession, but it didn’t turn out quite like that.
There were now five players left, all feeling that they had a chance, and a timely dinner break allowed them all a much-needed mental reset.
When they all returned to the playing hall, the atmosphere was different.
Soner Osman, from the United Kingdom, was the next to go, another player coming up against Scott Seiver. The hand was a basic flip but the poker gods favoured the American.
Maxx Coleman pretty much followed Osman to the rail. Starting with a respectable jack-three-two he couldn’t outdraw Brandon Shack-Harris and that was him out in fourth place with a $45,117 prize.
Three-handed play saw Seiver leading the way with more than half of the chips in play.
Shack-Harris and Ingo Klasen both knew it was now or never but then Seiver stamped his authority on the tournament by winning a monster pot, by far the biggest of the event to send Klasen home.
Brandon Shack-Harris lasted only two more hands. A random all-in was anybody’s pot but it was Scott Seiver who found a ten low to beat the queen low of Shack-Harris.
Seiver was stunned by what had just transpired, saying:
“It’s this weird feeling where you set a goal that should be close to impossible and then take the steps to do it.
“It’s the entire motivator. 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.”
He also touched upon how well the old school players have been doing at the WSOP 2024. Phil Ivey, John Hennigan, and Nick Schulman have all shown that the GTO kids of today will never have it all their own way.
And he mentioned his ambition to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, adding that his recent results might just prove he deserves it.
Razz fans will be delighted to know that the $10K Championship event will be kicking off in a couple of days.
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