Scott Seiver Is 91 Players From Bracelet No. 8

Scott Seiver won his seventh bracelet in 2024, and right now he's one of 91 players left in Event #99, the $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em at the 2026 World Series of Poker.

If he closes it, he'll have eight. That would place him in a club with fewer than 15 living members.

If Seiver closes Event #99, he'll have eight bracelets, placing him in a club with fewer than 15 living members.

The Resume at Seven

Seiver's WSOP profile reads like a highlight reel built across formats and buy-in levels. Seven bracelets. Thirty career final tables. And $10,348,321 in lifetime tournament earnings, a figure that puts him squarely in the modern-era elite.

The breadth matters as much as the depth. You don't rack up 30 WSOP final tables by specializing in one event type. Seiver has won across the mixed-game and no-limit spectrum, and Event #99's 8-handed format fits his profile perfectly: a $5,000 buy-in that rewards post-flop precision over preflop punt-and-pray.

The Field Around Him

Seiver isn't the only credentialed player still alive on Day 1. The remaining 91 include:

• Anthony Zinno: five bracelets, 54 lifetime final tables, $9,105,416 in career earnings. One of the most decorated mixed-game and short-handed specialists of the past decade.
• Nicholas Seward: one bracelet, 12 final tables, $1,939,945 in earnings. Not a household name, but a grinder who's been on a tear.
• Andrew Moreno: no bracelet yet, but 21 final tables and $4,309,038 in career earnings. That's a player who keeps getting close.
• Eelis Pärssinen: the Finnish pro has $4,138,604 in lifetime earnings across just 7 final tables, meaning his average result when he gets there is enormous.

This is not a soft field. Seiver will need to navigate through multiple players who already know what the final table of a $5,000 event feels like.

What Eight Would Mean

The eight-bracelet threshold is where historical company gets very small. The players who have reached it include Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, and a handful of others. For context, Ivey had eight bracelets by the time he was 38. Seiver, at a similar stage of his career, is knocking on the same door.

What separates Seiver's path is the earnings density. His $10.3M in lifetime cashes reflects a player who consistently enters premium buy-in events and consistently goes deep in them. Thirty final tables across WSOP events is a conversion rate that speaks for itself.

He also carries no WSOPC rings, zero Circuit-tour padding. Every piece of WSOP hardware on Seiver's shelf is a gold bracelet won at the main summer series.

The Road From 91 to 1

Day 1 of Event #99 has trimmed the field down to 91, but chip counts haven't been finalized yet. What we know: Seiver is among the named players still holding chips, and the structure of the $5,000 8-Handed format means shorter tables and faster confrontations as the field compresses.

For a player chasing bracelet number eight, this is exactly the kind of event you'd script: a mid-major buy-in with a skilled field, where post-flop edges compound over shorter tables.

The difference between seven and eight isn't one bracelet. It's a generation.