Scott Seiver Wins 2024 WSOP Player of the Year

The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has concluded from Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, with 39-year-old Scott Seiver named the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year.

Following Ian Matakis being crowned the 2023 WSOP Player of the Year, several changes were made to the scoring system for 2024. Players would require a minimum of five results to qualify and also be limited to their top ten points-earning results. A maximum of one online result counted towards a player's final score also.

After a min-cash to open his 2024 WSOP campaign, Seiver surged to victory in Event #10 to win his fifth career WSOP bracelet for $426,744 in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship. “This one stands out the most,” Seiver told the PokerGO Podcast when reflecting on his WSOP wins. “All the others were series where I was playing say 15, 20 events, I was playing cash 24/7, and I would win a bracelet and it was great. But this year, I came in with the goal and the mindset of, ‘I want to play a lot of tournaments, I want to win a lot of bracelets, and I want to see what it looks like if I really dedicate myself to this.’ So it feels that I’ve ‘earned’ this more, or at least I get to enjoy this more because I set out as a goal to win this bracelet, and I did.”

Seiver then picked up his first online score and followed that with two deep runs in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Championship and $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller. He then added his second career Razz bracelet, sixth overall, and second for the series, when he won Event #40: $1,500 Razz for $141,374. Seiver would also make a run in the $10,000 Razz Championship but fell short in 18th place. He then added another two cashes before winning his third WSOP bracelet of the series in Event #72: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw Championship.

To top the 186-entrant field and win the $411,041 first-place prize, Seiver joined an elusive club of players who had won three or more WSOP bracelets at a single WSOP. Puggy Pearson (1973), Phil Hellmuth (1993), Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Ivey (2002), and Jeff Lisandro (2009) are the only players to have achieved this feat, while George Danzer won three total in 2014 after winning two in Las Vegas and then a third at WSOP Asia-Pacific.

Seiver wasn't done after winning his third WSOP bracelet at the end of June, as he put together two more deep runs to solidify his WSOP Player of the Year standings. Seiver final tabled the WSOP Online Event #24: $10,000 WSOP Online Championship which was one of the few WSOP Online hybrid events where the final table played out live at the Horseshoe. Seiver would finish in third place for $182,214 before immediately jumping into Event #96: $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. High Roller, where he finished sixth for $131,719 in prize money.

In total, Seiver won three WSOP bracelets, made five final tables, cashed 17 times, and won $1,449,736 in prize money during his 2024 WSOP Player of the Year campaign.

Scott Seiver's 2024 World Series of Poker Results

Being crowned the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year will see Seiver join a list of winners that include Ian Matakis (2023), Dan Zack (2022), Josh Arieh (2021), Robert Campbell (2019), Shaun Deeb (2018), Jason Mercier (2016), and Daniel Negreanu (2013 and 2004). Seiver will now have his WSOP Player of the Year banner hang in the Horseshoe Grand Ballroom, and he'll also receive a seat in the 2025 WSOP Main Event and the WSOP Player of the Year trophy.

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