It took 40 events to record the first multiple bracelet winner this summer, with Scott Seiver running rampant in Razz to win his sixth overall and second in two weeks. Seiver bagged the chip lead with 14 left in Event #40: $1,500 Razz on Saturday night and went wire-to-wire, riding it all the way to a $141,374 victory on Sunday.
Look up and you’ll see him posing with his winning hand 
and latest bit of jewelry. He looks happy, but is he? Really? After winning number five and then busting out of his next tournament, he posted, “Both my biggest strength and biggest weakness as a gambler is that no result will ever bring happiness or satisfaction. There’s always a taller mountain to climb. 24th in PLO8 and fuming I didn’t win, no perspective at all. Still out here trying to win 10 bracelets this summer.”
Perhaps we can say he’s ‘happier’ than he was now he's got two. What he really wants is the 2024 Player of the Year title and a place in the Poker Hall of Fame. Talking with WSOP after winning last night he said, “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." And as far as an entry into the Hall of Fame goes, he said, “I'm going to keep going… whatever people need to see.”
Friends in the mixed games
Talking with PokerOrg after his win he said, “The mixed games tournaments are so special because it's a really close knit group. These are people, especially my age and my generation, we grew up playing together. I started when I was 21, and I'm 39 now.
"You see a lot of the same people over a really large portion of your adult life. Unlike cash game players, where one man is an island, in tournaments there are so many times for camaraderie and to root for other people without feeling like you're rooting against yourself. It builds a natural rapport with the players you see all the time, and this table especially had so many really good people."
It’s always more fun when you win, though. Seiver went on to say that his family would be proud of him. "They're going to be proud of me no matter what. They're going to love that this happened, but they would be just as proud if I lost. I wouldn't, though. I am more proud of myself for winning."
14 players now have six WSOP bracelets, including Daniel Negreanu, Shaun Deeb, and last year’s Hall of Fame inductee Brian Rast. Win seven and you enter even more rarefied air, with just nine players winning at least that many. Knowing Seiver, he’ll have his sights set on Phil Hellmuth who is looking for 18. That way, true contentment lies.
“A newwww, WSOP $50K High Roller champion!”
Bruce Buffer took on two roles last night: official announcer for the final table of Event #39: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em (see video of the day below), and one of the final nine players looking for the bracelet, the $2,026,506 first prize and the gold bracelet.
Unfortunately, he didn’t get a third role, announcing himself as “Newwwwww, WSOP champion!” Instead, he suffered an early knockout in eighth at the hands of Jonathan Jaffe.
He outlasted last year’s champion, Leon Sturm, who was eliminated in ninth. But the writing was on the wall for Buffer when Martin Kabrhel hit the rail in 10th. After an early Day 3 double up, Buffer said to Kabrhel, “You're my good luck charm.” With Sturms' elimination, it meant we'd have a new champion, but who?
Phil Galfond had his money on Viktor Blom, end of Day 2 chip leader.
Blom was up against some titans of the game, though, and left the stage in third place after he called for his stack of 7.5 million with a flopped two pair. Chance Kornuth had put him all in with a better two pair and Blom was out in third for $951,727.
That left Kornuth and Aido heads-up, with the former looking for his fourth bracelet and the latter looking for his first. Aido had to flop a full house at the end to get rid of Kornuth – see Hand of the Day below – and his career-best score of $2,026,506.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
One of the longest event names in the 2024 WSOP so far is going long itself. Event #41: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em / Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot was scheduled to play down to just five, but 16 bagged at the end of Day 2, shortly after midnight on Sunday.
Big names like Shaun Deeb, Patrick Leonard and Benny Glaser were bombed out, but there’s one familiar name near the top. Daniel Hachem is the son of 2005 WSOP Main Event champ Joe Hachem, and started playing at the age of just 10 after his dad came home with the $7,500,000 first prize. Daniel has recorded tournament winnings of $567,235 to date, with his first cash coming in 2013 and his first win alongside dad in a 2016 team heads-up event.
The closest he’s come to a bracelet is 23rd in 2022 in the $5,000 Mixed No Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha event. He comes back on Monday with the second biggest stack of 4,065,000. Xixiang Luo is marginally ahead with a field-leading stack of 4,265,000. William Kopp is one to watch. He won his first bracelet last year and also has three Circuit rings. Players return for Day 3 at 1pm.
Lang going long
The $10K Seven Card Stud Championship is a magnet for big names. Phil Ivey took an early bath on Day 2. He late-regged but couldn’t get anything going and departed around 90 minutes later. John Hennigan, Chris Brewer, Nick Schulman, Benny Glaser and Brian Rast all joined him before Cheryl Denzik went out on the bubble. That left 17 players in the money, with Brad Ruben getting double his money back when he exited in 17th.
11 players ended the day with chips and Robert Mizrachi is also looking for his second of the summer and sixth overall. He ended the day in 10th with 231,000. Mike Lang is at the top with 1,189,000 and there are a load of top players in between them like Paul Volpe, Yuri Dzivielevski, James Obst, Yuval Bronshtein, Juha Helppi and Andre Akkari. They'll be back to play for it all at 1pm.
Photo of the day
Hand of the day
Sergio Aido won his first WSOP bracelet in the $50K High Roller, and he did it in style.
Heads-up with Chance Kornuth, he called a bet of 1,000,000 preflop with 
to see the dealer fan out a flop of 
. Aido check-raised to 2.6M and Kornuth called.
Kornuth called a bet of 5.8M on the 
turn, and Aido must have known he had a good chance of finishing it at this point.
He moved all-in on the 
river and although Kornuth used multiple time extensions, he couldn’t get away from his flopped top pair. He put his remaining 11.3M chips in and flipped the losing 
.
Tweet of the day
Bracelets are important, but it was Father's Day on Sunday, and family trumps everything. Phil Hellmuth brought the reminder to us all.
Video of the day
You'll recognize Bruce Buffer's words if you're a UFC fan. Buffer brought his own brand of razzmatazz to the 2024 WSOP on Sunday night.
The day in numbers
8,703
The numbers for the 2024 Monster Stack, making it bigger then last year's by 386 players. Payouts will be confirmed in the early stages of Day 2, when all remaining players merge on Monday.
14
The number of players with six WSOP bracelets after Scott Seiver won the $1,500 Razz for his second of the summer.
$21,213,058
Sergio Aido won the biggest prize of the summer so far, and his biggest career score of $2,026,506, which takes his overall winnings above $21M.
Coming up on Day #21
Phil Hellmuth is in the mix in Event #43: $1,500 Mixed: PLO Hi-Lo 8; Omaha Hi-Lo 8; Big O. 854 players entered the battlefield, and 215 remain, with 129 of these set to cash on Monday. Dylan Lambe has the chip lead (317,000), Hellmuth is in the middle of the field on 121,500, with Bin Weng, Benny Glaser, Shaun Deeb, and Ari Engel around him for company. That one restarts at 1pm on Monday.
The monster field in the Monster Stack will merge after the last of the Day 1 flights ended. The 2024 Monster is officially bigger than last year's with 8,703 runners, after 3,468 played Day 1C. Last year's Monster Stack boasted 8,317 players, with Braxton Dunaway making off with the $1,162,681 first prize. There are still four days left in this monster tournament, with the final table playing out on Thursday. Changfeng Fan is the runaway chip leader with 1,403,500 chips. Faraz Jaka has a big stack of 439,000. You can see the full chip counts on the WSOP site.
Two new bracelet events kick off: Event #44 $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em (10am) and Event #45 $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship (2pm). The latter is bound to attract a host of big-name players. Mike Gorodinsky won it last year for a chunky score of $422,747.
WSOP Day #20 gallery
Results
Event #39: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em (8-Handed)
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergio Aido | $2,026,506 |
| 2 | Chance Kornuth | $1,351,000 |
| 3 | Viktor Blom | $951,727 |
| 4 | Adrian Mateos | $681,554 |
| 5 | Jesse Lonis | $496,293 |
| 6 | Jonathan Jaffe | $367,577 |
| 7 | Johannes Straver | $276,987 |
| 8 | Bruce Buffer | $212,423 |
Full results on WSOP
Event #40: $1,500 Razz
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Seiver | $141,374 |
| 2 | Brandon Shack-Harris | $94,247 |
| 3 | Ingo Klasen | $64,588 |
| 4 | Maxx Coleman | $45,117 |
| 5 | Soner Osman | $32,136 |
| 6 | Akihiro Kawaguchi | $23,349 |
| 7 | Brad Lindsey | $17,313 |
| 8 | Ben Yu | $13,105 |
Full results on WSOP
Ongoing events
Event #41: $1,500 Mixed NLH / PLO Double Board Bomb Pot (final 16)
| Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xixiang Luo | 4,265,000 |
| 2 | Daniel Hachem | 4,065,000 |
| 3 | Quan Zhou | 3,875,000 |
| 4 | David Funkhouser | 2,735,000 |
| 5 | Marcos Exterkotter | 2,550,000 |
| 6 | William Kopp | 2,075,000 |
| 7 | Robert Cote | 1,900,000 |
| 8 | Aaron Frank | 1,760,000 |
| 9 | Joseph Dulaney | 1,740,000 |
| 10 | Dejuante Alexander | 1,550,000 |
| 11 | Gabriel Schroeder | 1,300,000 |
| 12 | Gabi Livshitz | 1,215,000 |
| 13 | Dario Alioto | 1,205,000 |
| 14 | Peter Nghia Le | 1,200,000 |
| 15 | Mark Liedtke | 940,000 |
| 16 | Frankie Muzzio | 420,000 |
Event #42: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship (final 11)
| Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike Lang | 1,189,000 |
| 2 | Paul Volpe | 923,000 |
| 3 | Yuri Dzivielevski | 801,000 |
| 4 | James Obst | 732,000 |
| 5 | Yuval Bronshtein | 650,000 |
| 6 | Jason Daly | 602,000 |
| 7 | Juha Helppi | 586,000 |
| 8 | Kane Kalas | 414,000 |
| 9 | Andre Akkari | 406,000 |
| 10 | Robert Mizrachi | 231,000 |
| 11 | Alex Livingston | 192,000 |
Event #43: $1,500 Mixed: PLO Hi-Lo 8; Omaha Hi-Lo 8; Big O
| Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dylan Lambe | 317,000 |
| 2 | Joshua Adcock | 309,500 |
| 3 | Grantel Gibbs | 301,500 |
| 4 | Jonathan Cohen | 296,500 |
| 5 | Anthony Moyers | 271,500 |
| 6 | Allyn Shulman | 267,000 |
| 7 | Samantha Perryman | 263,500 |
| 8 | Daniel Anton | 262,500 |
| Notables | ||
| 27 | Bin Weng | 183,500 |
| 46 | Shaun Deeb | 132,500 |
| 56 | Phil Hellmuth | 121,500 |
| 57 | Benny Glaser | 121,000 |
| 98 | Ari Engel | 87,500 |
Full chip counts on WSOP
Bracelet winners
- Event #1: $5,000 Champions Reunion – Asher Conniff (USA)
- Event #2: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em – Jose Garcia (USA)
- Event #3: $500 Kickoff No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout – Daniel Willis (UK)
- Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better (8-Handed) – James Chen (USA)
- Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions - Malcolm Trayner (Australia)
- Event #6: $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship – Darius Samual (UK)
- Event #7: $1,500 Dealer's Choice – John Hennigan (USA)
- Event #8: $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha (8-Handed) - Bryce Yockey (USA)
- Event #9: $1,500 Limit Hold'em (8-Handed) - Nick Guagenti (USA)
- Event #10: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship - Scott Seiver (USA)
- Event #11: $1,500 Badugi - David Prociak (USA)
- Event #12: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em - Simeon Spasov (Bulgaria)
- Event #13: $10,000 Dealers Choice Championship - Robert Mizrachi (USA)
- Event #14: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em - Thibault Perissat (France)
- Event #15: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better - Caleb Furth (USA)
- Event #16: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Brent Hart (USA)
- Event #17: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack - TJ Murphy (USA)
- Event #18: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha - Dylan Weisman (USA)
- Event #19: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship - John Racener (USA)
- Event #20: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-Limit Hold'em - Stephen Winters (USA)
- Event #21: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em (6-Handed) - Brek Schutten (USA)
- Event #22: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw (6-Handed) - Aaron Cummings (USA)
- Event #23: Event #23: $1,500 SHOOTOUT No-Limit Hold'em - Dan Sepiol (USA)
- Event #24: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship - Sean Troha (USA)
- Event #25: $3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed - Daniel Vampan (USA)
- Event #26: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em (8-Handed) - Nick Schulman (USA)
- Event #27: $1,500 Big O - Michael Christ (USA)
- Event #28: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em - Evan Benton (USA)
- Event #29: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship (6-Handed) - Phil Ivey (USA)
- Event #30: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack - Alen Bakovic (Canada)
- Event #31: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed - Nicholas Seward (USA)
- Event #32: $1,500 Seven Card Stud - Richard Ashby (UK)
- Event #33: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack (8-Handed) - Alex Manzano (Chile)
- Event #34: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout - Antonio Galiana (Spain)
- Event #35: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. - Phillip Hui (USA)
- Event #36: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack (8-Handed) – Timur Margolin (Israel)
- Event #37: $10,000 Big O Championship – John Fauver (USA)
- Event #39: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em (8-Handed) - Sergio Aido (Spain)
- Event #40: $1,500 Razz – Scott Seiver (USA)
