Scott Seiver Wins 2024 WSOP POY Without Fanfare
It appears that Scott Seiver is the 2024 World Series of Poker Player of the Year. He locked up the POY title after the last results of WSOP Online bracelet events trickled in…days after the live series ended.
There was no official announcement from the WSOP, not even a social media post. It is assumed that the POY points are complete with all results now, and the race is over. For such a contested race, one that saw numerous players soaring to the top of the leaderboard and falling back as other players did well, the final input of the results produced an anti-climactic end to the race.
Several media outlets decided to unofficially post the POY results, the only thing to do without any official statements, press releases, or even tweets about the final POY standings.
Seiver Sustains Lead for the Win
The first half of the 2024 World Series of Poker saw players enter and exit the WSOP Player of the Year leaderboard regularly. It wasn’t until the second half that a few names appeared at the top and had the chance to sustain their spots.
By the time the Main Event began, Scott Seiver was in the lead, according to the POY leaderboard. Seiver had captured three bracelets by that point – this summer alone – putting him at seven WSOP bracelets for his career thus far.
Jeremy Ausmus was a few hundred points behind Seiver, followed closely by Chance Kornuth and then a little further back by Chris Hunichen and David Prociak.
Seiver only increased his POY points through the rest of the series. Every players’ scores included only their top 10 points-scoring results, and only one WSOP Online bracelet event – the highest points-earning score – would count. Ultimately, he became the only player to earn more than 4,000 points.
The final standings were:
- 1. Scott Seiver = 4,403.85 points
- 2. Michael Rocco = 3,803.67 points
- 3. Jeremy Ausmus = 3,686.60 points
- 4. John Racener = 3,557.10 points
- 5. Xixiang Luo = 3,480.93 points
- 6. Chance Kornuth = 3,379.99 points
- 7. David Prociak = 3,274.87 points
- 8. Chris Hunichen = 3,094.85 points
- 9. Yuri Dzivielevski = 3,033.64 points
- 10. Phil Ivey = 3,004.04 points
For the accomplishment, Seiver will receive a $10K seat into the 2025 WSOP Main Event, a trophy, and a Player of the Year banner to be displayed at Paris Las Vegas or Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Holdups and Confusion
When the series of 99 live 2024 WSOP tournaments wrapped at the Paris and Horseshoe casinos on July 17, that wasn’t actually the end of the summer WSOP. The Player of the Year race included the WSOP Online events on the WSOP.com client that operates for players in Nevada, New Jersey, and Michigan combined. Those events ran through Sunday, July 21.
The original WSOP Online schedule offered 30 tournaments from June 1 through July 21. Those last two events on July 20 and July 21 were the ones that still counted toward the POY race. When the WSOP posted the results of those two tournaments, the POY-qualifying tournaments were over.
There was some mention on social media of two additional WSOP Online tournaments, but there is no information from the World Series of Poker or on the online poker client as evidence.
Thus, the Player of the Year race does seem to be complete, and Scott Seiver seems to be the winner.
