The second week of the 2024 WSOP saw two pros secure their fifth bracelet when Scott Siever and Robert Mizrachi joined the Five Timers Club. Seiver banked $426,744 for winning Event #10 $10,000 Omaha 8 Championship, and Mizrachi took down Event #13 $10,000 Dealer's Choice Championship for $333,045. Also, David Prociak and Simeon Spasov won their second bracelets. Meanwhile, first-time winners included Nick Guagenti and France's Thibault Perissat.
Only 38 players in history won at least five WSOP bracelets, and two more players joined the exclusive club. Bracelets are probably the laziest way to determine greatness in poker. It's not the only way to figure out who's the best of the best, but when you start padding your stats and adding multiple pieces of hardware to your collection, you start to realize how hard it actually is to win four or more bracelets. Right now, only five players reached double digits in bracelets, so five is currently the major milestone that many pros are gunning for.
In just the second week of the WSOP, three players reached historic markers including two this week. Scott Seiver and Robert Mizrachi entered this series with four bracelets each. Seiver was still a kid with a bright future ahead of him when he won his first bracelet in 2008, but it took a decade before he returned to the winner's circle. Since 2018, he won four more bracelets to reach five.
The eldest Mizrachi bother won his first bracelet in 2007, but it took him seven years to win a second one. Robert ran good with bling victories in three-straight summers between 2014 and 2016, but he had been stuck on four for almost eight years. He finally joined his brother, The Grinder, in the Five Timers Club.
There are now 16 member sitting on five bracelets and that list includes the likes of Scotty Nguyen, Stu Ungar,
Allen Cunningham, David Chiu, Eli Elezra, Berry Johnston, John Juanda, Bones Berland, Danny Alaei, Adam Friedman, John Monnette, Brian Yoon, and Benny Glasser.
A total of 22 other players used to be former members of the Five Timers. In case you were wondering, there are currently 13 players in the Six Timers Club. There were 14 players with six until Johnny World Hennigan shipped bracelet #7 last week and joined the likes of Billy Baxter and Men the Master in the Lucky 7s Crew. And yes, only six players in the history of the WSOP won more bracelets that Johnny World. That exclusive list includes Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, and Johnny Moss.
Event #9 $1,500 Limit Hold'em attracted 443 entries to this old-school format. The prize pool was $591K and the top 67 places paid out. Nick Guagenti won $121,074 and his first bracelet when he outlasted a final table that included Juha Helppi, Joe Brodsky, George Chen, Qinghai Pan, Bradley Carter, Abdulrahim Amer, and John Kim. Among the notables who went deep and cashed included JJ Lui, Matt Grapenthien, Lee Markholt, and Brock Parker.
Event #10 $10,000 Omaha 8 Championship attracted 171 runners and a prize pool worth $1.59 million. Only the top 30 paces paid out with $426K set aside to the champ. Scott Seiver was the last player standing and he outlasted a final table that included Cal Anderson, Benny Glaser, Jake Schwartz, and Jared Bleznick. Other familiar faces who cashed included Jon Racener, Robert Mizrachi, Johnny World, Dario Sammartino, Naoya Kihara, Shaun Deeb, Ray Henson, and Anthony Zinno.
Event #11 $1,500 Badugi attracted 487 players and a prize pool worth $650K. Only the top 74 places paid out. David Prociak edged out Matt Grapenthien heads up for his second bracelet and $129,676 in cash. The final table also included Chum Yam, Tobias Leknes, Tomasz Gluski, and Brandon Cantu. Other noteworthy players who went deep included David Stamm, Jim Collopy, Chip Jett, Adam Owen, Chris Bell, Frank Kassela, Dylan Linde, and Andrew Yeh.
Event #12 $1,500 NLHE 6-Handed attracted 2,526 runners and a prize pool worth $3.3 million with the top 379 places getting a cut. Simeon Spasov snagged $439,815 and won his second bracelet when he outlasted a final table that included John Henry Gordon, Steve Yea, Chi Fan, Mark Dube, and Danny Palau. Among the notables who cashed in Event #12 included JC Tran, Nate Silver, Anton Wigg, Anson Tsang, Chance Kornuth, Alex Foxen, David the Dragon, Brock Wilson, Eric Baldwin, Josh Arieh, Ari Engel,
Event #13 $10,000 Dealer's Choice Championship was a six-handed affair that attracted 124 entries and a prize pool worth $1.15 million. Only the top 22 places paid out with most of the cheesecake -- $333K -- set aside to the champion. Robert Mizrachi outgunned a final table thati ncluded Mike Martinelli, Ryutara Suzuki,Ben Lamb, David Bach, and Richard Bai. Dniel Negreanu missed the final table when he busted in tenth place. Phil Ivey was knocked out in 11th place. Alo cashing were Nick Schulman, John Monnette, David Bakes Baker, and Erick Lindgren.
France's Thibault Perissat was the last person standing in Event #14 $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty NLHE Freezeout. This fun event attracted 2,639 runners and a prize pool north of $2.32 million. The top 396 places paid out with $197,308 set aside to the winner. Some of the familiar faces who went deep and cashed in the freezeout included Dinesh Alt, Josh Arieh, Chris Hunichen, Joe Cada, Phillip Hui, Ryan Riess, Anthony Spinella, Dan Shak, Johnny World, Alex Keating, Pierre Fromage, Jeff Shulman, Upeshka De Silva, Ronnie Bardah, JJ Liu, Niall Farrell, Brian Yoon, and Christian Harder.
