WSOP: Scott Seiver Grinds His Way to Victory in $10K Razz for Bracelet #3
Saturday’s World Series of Poker action, which included just six events in play, was highlighted by Scott Seiver winning the third bracelet of his career and a $10,000 Championship event stopping early so that the players could make their way to a party.
Scott Seiver Wins $10,000 Razz Championship
Ninety minutes. That’s all the time Scott Seiver needed on Saturday to finish off Andrey Zhigalov to win the $10,000 Razz for $301,421 and the third bracelet of his career.
Seiver and Zhigalov needed a fourth day after being unable to finish on Day 3. Seiver started Day 4 with a 4:3 chip lead and never once surrendered it on his way to the win. Seiver plays a limited tournament schedule in an effort to balance his time between the lucrative cash games available during the summer and the tournaments that aren’t offered any other time of year.
“Honestly, there’s so many cash games also that I feel the need to balance between the two. The times I’ve done all cash games I burn out too fast. The times I do all tournaments I burn out too fast,” Seiver said. “For whatever reason, in my brain, it feels like two separate entities, and when I feel myself getting tired of one, I switch to the other. I’ve always been kind of a half-and-half person.”
Seiver’s previous two wins came in 2008 ($5,000 No Limit Hold’em) and 2018 ($10,000 Limit Hold’em).
Zhigalov, who finished fourth in this event in 2017, took home $186,293 for his runner-up finish.
Final Table Payouts
- Scott Seiver – $301,421
- Andrey Zhigalov – $186,293
- Chris Ferguson – $131,194
- Daniel Zack – $94,305
- Daniel Negreanu – $69,223
- Andre Akkari – $51,911
- David Bach – $39,788
- George Alexander – $31,185
Georgios Kapalas Leads Colossus Final Table
Ninety-nine players saw their Colossus run end on Saturday and Greece’s Georgios Kapalas probably had a hand in a lot of them. Kapalas began Day 3 with a middle-of-the-pack stack and over the course 7.5 hours of play, built that stack into 105,700,000 and the chip lead with just eight players left.
Andrew Barber finished with the second-best stack after finishing Day 3 with 89,300,000. Maksim Kalman is on his heels with 85,500,000.
Ian Steinman, Eddy Sabat, Tom McEvoy, and Joe Kuether were some of the more notable names to end up in the results column rather than the chip count column on Saturday.
The final table begins at Noon PT.
Final Table Chip Counts
- Georgios Kapalas – 105,700,000
- Andrew Barber – 89,300,000
- Maksim Kalman – 85,500,000
- Ryan Depaulo – 72,400,000
- Juan Lopez – 56,500,000
- Sejin Park – 48,400,000
- Norson Saho – 47,900,000
- Patrick Miller – 18,500,000
Anatolii Zyrin Leads $1,500 Omaha Mix Final Four
Three different variations of Omaha, four players still in the hunt. Day 3 of the $1,500 Omaha Mix, which includes a rotation of Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, Omaha Hi-Lo, and Big O, started with 38 players and finished with Anatolii Zyrin leading the final four players.
If the Russian Zyrin is going to win his first bracelet on Sunday, he’ll need to get past the defending champion in the event, Rich Zhu. Zhu finished with the second biggest stack, 595,000 behing Zyrin’s 3,330,000.
Mesbah Guerfi and James Van Alstyne round out the final four.
Barry Greenstein, Bart Hanson, Ryan Riess, Phil Laak, and Patrick Leonard all busted on Saturday evening.
The final four players are back in action beginning at 2 PM PT and will play down to a winner.
Final Chip Counts
- Anatolii Zyrin – 3,330,000
- Rich Zhu – 2,735,000
- Mesbah Guerfi – 1,960,000
- James Van Alstyne – 585,000
$888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em (Event #64)
Another 2,830 players piled into the Rio on Saturday to play Day 1C of the $888 Crazy Eights tournament. Just 333 players survived the day with Ian Simpson working his way to the top of the chip counts with 1,284,000. Alexandre Fradin is right behing him with 1,125,000.
Josh Arieh, fresh off of his runner-up finish in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, leads the group of notables moving on to Day 2. Florian Duta, Steve Gross, Jesse Sylvia, and Scott Davies also managed to find a Day 1C bag.
Day 1D begins on Sunday at 10 AM and Day 2 goes Monday.
Day 1C Top Chip Counts
- Ian Simpson – 1,284,000
- Alexandre Fradin – 1,125,000
- Adam Daniel – 1,078,000
- Shaun Mcbride – 938,000
- Samad Razavi – 926,000
$10,000 PLO Hi-Lo Stops Early; Chris Vitch Leads
An unusually short Day 2 in the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo event left 43 players still in the hunt and Christopher Vitch sitting on top of the chip counts. Vitch bagged up 795,000 which put him ahead of Scott Bohlman (628,000) and Bryce Yockey (535,000).
WSOP organizers had the event end after just six levels so players could attend the 50 Honors celebration at the Rio. Day 3 begins 14 players away from the money.
Yuri Dzivielevski, Brian Hastings, Joe Hachem, Michael Mizrachi, Nick Schulman, and Chris Ferguson are a handful of the previous bracelet winners still in the event.
Day 3 will be a full day of play beginning at Noon PT.
Top Chip Counts
- Christopher Vitch – 795,000
- Scott Bohlman – 628,000
- Bryce Yockey – 535,000
- Michael McKenna – 477,000
- Kim Kallman – 420,000
- Corey Hochman – 414,000
- Yuri Dzivielevski – 414,000
- Viacheslav Zhukov – 410,000
- Andjelko Andrejevic – 402,000
- Brian Hastings – 394,000
Shirley Rosario Leads $1,500 Limit Hold’em Day 1
Shirley Rosario outchipped all of the 184 Day 1 survivors in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em event. The California-based poker pro finished with 107,600 which put her just ahead of Z Stein’s 106,100. No other player crossed into six-figure territory.
The event attracted a total of 541 runners to build the prize pool to $730,350 with $161,139 going to the eventual winner.
Some of the familiar faces who made it to Day 2 include Benny Glaser, Terrence Chan, Joe McKeehen, Matt Grapenthien, Andre Akkari, David ‘ODB’ Baker, Daniel Negreanu, Ben Yu, and Matt Glantz.
Day 2 begins at 2 PM PT.
Top Chip Counts
- Shirley Rosario – 107,600
- Z Stein – 106,100
- Timothy Su – 94,700
- Steve Chanthabouasy – 90,600
- Adam Tyburski – 90,300
- Manu Manuel – 84,700
- Jason Janes – 81,600
- Kerry Welsh – 80,600
- Tai Ly – 80,600
- Benny Glaser – 77,200
