Scott Seiver Is 91 Players Away From Eight-Bracelet Company

Scott Seiver has seven bracelets, $10.3 million in lifetime earnings, and 91 players standing between him and the kind of company that fits on one hand.

The $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em (Event #99) at the 2026 World Series of Poker is down to 91 runners, and Seiver — a 30-time WSOP final tablist with more than a decade of high-stakes results — is among them. An eighth bracelet would slot him into an absurdly thin tier of the all-time list, alongside names like Erik Seidel and Phil Ivey.

That's the gap he's trying to close. Not from good to great. From great to historic.

An eighth bracelet would slot him into an absurdly thin tier of the all-time list, alongside names like Erik Seidel and Phil Ivey.

The Field That's Left

The WSOP hasn't published chip counts for the remaining 91 players yet, so there's no stack hierarchy to parse. What we do know is who's still in — and the names are not soft.

Anthony Zinno, a five-time bracelet winner with $9.1 million in lifetime earnings and a staggering 54 career WSOP final tables, is still alive. Zinno doesn't need an eighth bracelet to validate anything, but a sixth would be its own kind of statement — and he's exactly the type of player who grinds deep in $5K fields with relentless positional discipline.

Andrew Moreno, bracelet-less but carrying $4.3 million in lifetime cashes and 21 final-table appearances, is another live one. So is Finland's Eelis Paerssinen, whose $4.1 million in career earnings have come across just seven final tables — a ratio that suggests he's comfortable playing for serious money when he gets there.

Nicholas Seward rounds out the notables: one bracelet, $1.9 million in lifetime earnings, 12 final tables. Not a household name, but a player who's been to enough of these to know how the last few tables feel.

Why Eight Matters

Seven bracelets is remarkable. It puts Seiver in a tier with Johnny Chan, Billy Baxter, and Men Nguyen — names that don't need introductions at Horseshoe or Paris.

But eight is a different shelf entirely. Players with eight or more gold bracelets in WSOP history can be counted without using both hands. Seidel has eight. Ivey has ten. Phil Hellmuth sits at 17. After that, the oxygen gets thin fast.

Seiver's path to this point hasn't been a steady accumulation. His 30 final tables across a career worth $10.35 million tell the story of a player who shows up in the biggest fields and converts at an elite rate. Seven bracelets from 30 final tables is a conversion percentage most players would take in a heartbeat.

Now he needs one more. In a $5K buy-in event with 91 players left and at least two other multi-bracelet winners still in contention.

What Comes Next

The 8-Handed format compresses the action. Shorter tables mean wider ranges, more contested pots, and fewer orbits to sit and wait. It rewards aggression and hand-reading over patience — which, for a player with Seiver's high-stakes pedigree, is probably a feature rather than a bug.

The field will reconvene at the Horseshoe for Day 2, and when it does, every elimination brings Seiver one step closer to a bracket of poker history that hasn't added a new member in a while.

Ninety-one players left. Five of them have combined for 13 bracelets and $29.8 million in career earnings. And one of them is playing for a number that would change how the game remembers his name.