Scott Seiver Wins WSOP Player of the Year 


The dust has now settled on the 2024 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, and Scott Seiver has taken home the title of MVP of the month-long mega event. 

Seiver picked up three coveted tournament winners’ bracelets over the month’s poker gameplay at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. That puts him as one of only five players to do so.

However, the Player of the Year title went down to the wire. With casino floor play concluded for the month, two online events remained to play out this week. It was, until they concluded on Tuesday, still mathematically possible for Michael Rocco or Jeremy Ausmus to catch Seiver at the top of the points rankings.

But in the end, neither of the two ran deep in the remaining events, and Seiver’s three bracelet wins saw him clinch the Player of the Year title. 

The achievement will put him in line for an almost sure shot at the Poker Hall of Fame in 2025 when he turns 40, the minimum age for entry.

The Bracelet Wins

At WSOP 2024, Seiver won Event #10: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Event #40: $1,500 Razz, and Event #72: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship, on his way to the Player of the Year title. 

He also made the cash-out threshold 17 times across the 100-plus tournaments of the event, including two more final table appearances. In total, Seiver made $1,449,773 from tournament winnings across all his entries. He also bagged a paid-for $10,000 buy-in to the 2025 WSOP Main Event as a prize for winning Player of the Year.

Months before hitting the felt, the New York native and Las Vegas resident was supremely confident he had a shot at being the best player of the event. 

“Looking to get big action down on POY either h2h with people drafted lower or near me or bracelet bets vs people or direct odds to win a bracelet,” Seiver wrote on social media in May, responding to a preview article rating him as 73rd pick to make Player of the Year. 

The WSOP 2024 has been widely considered as one of the best editions in years of the annual gathering. It saw a record-breaking $10 million prize Main Event ending in a controversial win for Daniel Tamayo over first-time WSOP attendee and amateur player Jordan Griff. 

It also saw legends Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey break their years-long bracelet droughts with tournament wins, as well as one player who survived an overnight heart attack before cashing for $60K in the main event.

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