Scott Seiver Doesn’t Break, Earns Third WSOP Bracelet Of Summer

Scott Seiver locked up his third World Series of Poker bracelet of the summer on Sunday after winning the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 lowball championship, one of the more prestigious events on the schedule.

One key hand stood out en route to his latest victory, and earned him plenty of praise among top pros for the seven-time bracelet winner’s above-the-rim play.

PokerGO caught the action with five players remaining and blinds at 50,000-100,000 with a 150,000 big blind ante. Seiver was dealt 10 7

 5 3 2, a decent, but convertible hand, and moved all in with the last of his 1.5 million chips.

Jennifer Harman looked at 10 9 4 3 2 with 1.2 million chips remaining. She had a tough decision but ultimately called all in. Chip leader Jonathan Krela then also called with 10 9 7 6 4, building the pot to 4.3 million chips.

Krela stood pat. A very strong move given the action in front of him. Although Seiver had the best hand with his 10-7 low, he couldn’t know it for sure, and had a tempting one-card draw to improve should he decide to throw away his 10.

Watch how the hand played out below.

 

Seiver ultimately came to the right conclusion and stood pat, putting the action back on Harman. Now seeing two pat hands in front of her, she made the right call to break her own 10-9 and draw one. Unfortunately for the Poker Hall of Famer, she failed to hit and was eliminated.

Seiver nearly tripled up after he saw that his 10-7 beat Krela’s 10-9, and the pot put him right back in contention. He rode that momentum to a heads-up match with Krela, and ultimately, the title.

Several pros took to Twitter to comment on Seiver’s gutsy move with 10-high.

“This pat behind by Scott Seiver is heroic,” high-stakes pro Dan Smith noted. “Still in shock. And it won him the fucking tournament.”

Galen Hall went even further and offered a detailed analysis of standing pat rather than breaking the hand.

“So, either Scott thinks patting here in a vacuum is good (and he could totally be right and I could be wrong), or he’d agree that breaking is typically right but he’s just absolutely owning Krela with a soul read here,” Hall wrote.

 

“I word for word agree with everything you wrote here and was thinking all these things mid-hand, especially all the tens that are unbreakable being the better ones and the worse ones having draws,” Seiver concurred. “I think it’s one of the bigger/harder in-game decisions I’ve made, period.”

Seiver went on to win the tournament with Krela taking runner-up for $274,217. The tournament saw 186 entries for a $1.7 million prize pool.

With his trifecta of bracelets so far this summer, Seiver moved into a tie for seven bracelets with John Hennigan, Billy Baxter, Men Nguyen, and Daniel Negreanu, who won his latest bracelet over the weekend in the Poker Players Championship. Moreover, it has won him quite a bit beyond the $1.1 million in cashes he’s racked up in the month of June alone.

 

The win moved Seiver back into the lead in the WSOP player of the year race, where he currently sits almost 400 points ahead of Jeremy Ausmus, who has made six final tables.