Five events took place on Day 34 of the 2024 World Series of Poker as Scott Seiver won his third WSOP bracelet of the summer. Seiver, who equalled the record of poker legends by doing so, now has seven in total and has put himself in the best possible position to become the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year. Elsewhere in Las Vegas, the Ladies Championship reached its final table of six, while Brian Rast starred in the PLO High Roller event as last year’s Poker Hall of Fame inductee goes for gold yet again.
Seiver on Top as Poker Legend Bags Third Gold This Summer
Scott Seiver took home his third bracelet this summer after beating Jonathan Krela heads-up for a top prize of $411,041 in the $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Championship. With Event #72 seeing nine players kick off the action on the final day of the event, players such as Jason Mercier and Robert Mizrachi busted early.
Mike Watson left in sixth place before the Poker Hall of Famer Jennifer Harman busted four places short of ending her 19-year WSOP bracelet drought. It was Seiver who profited from her departure, before his WSOP Player of the Year rival Jeremy Ausmus lost to Jonathan Krela.
It was Krela who got heads-up, and with both men on 50 big blinds each, a long battle looked likely. As it transpired, the ending came quick, A massive overbet by Krelas with just fewer than Seiver’s chips put the eventual winner to the test. Seiver passed it with flying colors, making the call and winning the Lowball Draw Championship for $411,041, leaving Krela to depart with the runner-up prize of $274,217.
After Seiver beat 185 opponents to his latest title, the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year in waiting was delighted with the result.
“I feel very satisfied right now,” Seiver told PokerNews. “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.”
Levelling a record of three bracelets in a single WSOP alongside Puggy Pearson (1973), Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Hellmuth (1993), Phil Ivey (2002) and Jeff Lisandro (2009) – as the first player to do so in the postBlack Friday poker era – Scott Seiver could hardly be in a better place to rubber-stamp his authority on poker than he is in this year’s World Series.
| WSOP Event #72: $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Championship Results: | |||
| Place | Place | Country | Prize |
| 1st | Scott Seiver | United States | $411,041 |
| 2nd | Jonathan Krela | Canada | $274,217 |
| 3rd | David Lin | United States | $187,177 |
| 4th | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | $130,794 |
| 5th | Jen Harman | United States | $93,615 |
| 6th | Mike Watson | Canada | $68,672 |
| 7th | Aaron Kupin | United States | $51,661 |
Brian Rast Leads PLO High Roller Event
The $25,000-entry PLO High Roller event saw a total field of 476 players reduced to 34 Day 2 survivors as the 2023 Poker Hall of Fame inductee Brian Rast (4,785,000) tops the remaining three dozen hopefuls. Michael Moncek (3,670,000), Erick Lindgren (3,235,000), Kahle Burns (2,480,000), Tom Dwan (2,240,000), Joao Vieira (1,515,000), Sean Winter (700,000), and Viktor Blom (580,000) all made Day 3 of the event too, with $60,672 guaranteed to whoever busts next but an incredible $2,246,728 top prize the ultimate goal.
On a day of many eliminations, stars such as the 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey (38th for $60,672), British poker pro Stephen Chidwick (41st for $52,722), PokerGO commentator and five-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (52nd for $50,211), British Benny Glaser (57th for $50,211), and Danish poker legend Gus Hansen (71st for $50,211) all left the action.
| WSOP Event #73: $25,000 PLO High Roller Day 2 Chipcounts: | |||
| Place | Place | Country | Chips |
| 1st | Brian Rast | United States | 4,785,000 |
| 2nd | Maxi Lehmanski | Germany | 4,500,000 |
| 3rd | Billy Tarango | United States | 4,400,000 |
| 4th | Eelis Parssinen | Finland | 3,795,000 |
| 5th | David Eldridge | United States | 3,700,000 |
| 6th | Michael Moncek | United States | 3,670,000 |
| 7th | Tyler Stafman | United States | 3,635,000 |
| 8th | Joni Jouhkimainen | Finland | 3,255,000 |
| 9th | Erick Lindgren | United States | 3,235,000 |
Jamie Kerstetter Leads Final Six in Ladies Event
With just six players left in the $1,000-entry Ladies Championship Event #71, poker commentator and two-time Global Poker Award winner for being Best Twitter Personality Jamie Kerstetter (9.33m) leads the field. Second in chips is last year’s runner-up in the event, Shiina Okamoto. With 8,640,000 chips, the Japanese player is the only player with over a third of Kerstetter’s chips.
Others to make the final day include Linda Durden (3,110,550), Mor Kamber (1,755,000), Cecile Ticherfatine (1,100,000) and Ceci Liao (970,000), while chess grandmaster and poker player Jennifer Shahade, content creator Marle Spragg and both Nadya Magnus and Cherish Andrews all busted on the penultimate day.
Could Kerstetter win her first bracelet? Will Okamoto get the win a year after falling just short? We’ll find out tomorrow.
| WSOP Event #71: $1,000 Ladies Championship Final Day Chipcounts: | |||
| Place | Place | Country | Chips |
| 1st | Jamie Kerstetter | United States | 9,330,000 |
| 2nd | Shiina Okamoto | Japan | 8,640,000 |
| 3rd | Linda Durden | United States | 3,110,500 |
| 4th | Mor Kamber | Israel | 1,755,000 |
| 5th | Cecile Ticherfatine | France | 1,100,000 |
| 6th | Ceci Liao | United States | 970,000 |
Chainsaw Cuts Through Opposition in Seven Card Stud
Allen Kessler starred on Day 1 of the $10,000-entry Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship Event #74, with 143 entries and just 74 survivors in the latest $10,000 Championship event. While it was Ali Eslami (395,000) who led the field by the close of play on Day 1, Andrey Zhigalov (276,500) being next in line won’t grab headlines like the PokerStake player Allen ‘Chainsaw’ Kessler (273,000). Kessler’s presence is sure to excite poker fans tomorrow in Las Vegas.
Also surviving were Brandon Shack-Harris (244,500), Nacho Barbero (215,500), Brad Ruben (205,500), Todd Brunson (187,500), Chris Vitch (181,000), Robert Campbell (142,500), Poker commentator Norman Chad (138,500), Dario Sammartino (134,000), Mike Matusow (99,000), Jeremy Ausmus (81,500), Robert Mizrachi (35,500) and Scott Seiver (17,500), who bounced into the event after winning the seventh bracelet of his career. Out on Day 1 were Daniel Negreanu, Shaun Deeb and Maria Ho among others.
| WSOP Event #74: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Championship Day 1 Chipcounts: | |||
| Place | Place | Country | Chips |
| 1st | Ali Eslami | United States | 395,000 |
| 2nd | Andrey Zhigalov | Russia | 276,500 |
| 3rd | Allen Kessler | United States | 273,000 |
| 4th | Brandon Shack-Harris | United States | 244,500 |
| 5th | Hisashi Yamanouchi | Japan | 236,000 |
| 6th | Nacho Barbero | Argentina | 215,500 |
| 7th | Brad Ruben | United States | 205,500 |
| 8th | Maximilian Schindler | United States | 203,500 |
| 9th | Xixiang Luo | China | 203,500 |
| 10th | Rob Hollink | Netherlands | 190,000 |
Colossal Field Sees Over 2,000 Make Day 2
In Event #70, the $400 buy-in Colossus event was very busy on Day 1c, with so many entries that 19,337 is the total field contributing to the prizepool. With 2,358 of those players making Day 2, Day 1c saw healthy stacks bagged by chip leader Vincent Lee (1,470,000) and close rivals William Wilkinson (1,390,000) and Austin Alcala (1,287,000). Others to make the Day 2 cut included German former soccer star Max Kruse (625,000) Mystery Millions legend and Team Lucky’s Matt Glantz (485,000) and the 888poker pro Ian Simpson (301,000), with everyone now in the money.
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This article originally appeared on PokerStake.com
