The Winners of the Eighth 10 Events of WSOP 2024

PokerListings continues to share results of the WSOP 2024 with you. In this article you’ll find information about the winners of the eighth ten events of WSOP, who were crowned from June 28^th to July 3^rd.

Note: We did not include from WSOP Online events and results of live WSOP events that were played next — you can find them in later articles on PokerListings.

Shiina Okamoto

In 2024, young Japanese poker player Shiina Okamoto returns to the WSOP for the second year in a row to finish what she started in 2023 — to win an event for women.

This goal was met when Shiina’s took down Event #71: $10,000 LADIES Championship No-Limit Hold’em, which saw 1,245 entries and came with a $1,095,600 prize pool.

Her prize for second place in the same event on WSOP 2023 brought Okamoto her career best cash of $118,768. However, her 2024 victory crushed this result with a $171,732 prize. At the end of WSOP 2024, Okamoto had $486,075 in total live earnings for 38 ITMs.

She met her latest victory with a big smile but was brief in commenting: “After finishing second last year and with all my supporters here, winning this year feels even more special”.

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Scott Seiver

It was inevitable for US poker beast Scott Seiver to end the WSOP 2024 as a POY. He made 17 ITMs, including three victories. His latest victory came with Event #72: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship (7-Handed), which saw 186 registered entries and a $1,729,800 prize pool.

The victory gave Seiver a $411,041 prize.

it’s safe to say that Seiver was pleased with his performance, commenting post game:

“I feel very satisfied right now. I can’t really describe it. I’m like on Cloud Nine right now. This just means so much to me, and it also is a step in a personal journey I’ve made for myself where I’ve had a pie-in-the-sky dream where I want to win one bracelet in every single discipline there is.“

As of July 2024, Scott has seven bracelets and more than $26,8M in total live earnings. In 2025, he will be eligible to become a Poker Hall of Fame nominee. Becoming a member would let Seiver achieve his ultimate career goal.

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David “Diamond Dave” Eldridge

By 2024, US player David Eldridge already had four notable victories (PCA 2017, WPT 2017, partypoker MILLIONS North America 2018, and WSOP Online PA Only 2021). Still, he wasn’t lucky enough to stag that cherished live gold bracelet.

This situation was resolved at the WSOP 2024 when David won Event #73: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha. The event saw 475 registered entries and a prize pool worth $11,186,000. With this victory, Eldridge took his absolute best cash of $2,246,728.

A little tired after his victory, Eldridge simply stated: “It was a long four days, but things worked out”.

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Arash Ghaneian

Becoming a WSOP winner is usually a fascinating experience, but sometimes life is so tough and dramatic that being joyful after a victory feels almost illegal.

Something like that happened to the US poker player Arash Ghaneian in 2015. During his run in the $1,5K H.O.R.S.E. event, his, at he time pregnant, wife Liz Ghaneian was fighting for her life. Due to the stressed, Ghaneian’’s performance in the tournament took second place.

Fortunately, both mom and babies were fine and Ghaneian even ended up winning his first bracelet and a $239,750 prize.

In 2024, everything looked a bit different – this time, for the better. A happy and healthy Liz was on the rail with friends, cheering her husband when he won Event #74: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship. This time, the event came with 167 entries and a $1,553,100 prize pool. Thanks to his latest victory, Ghaneian secured his best cash to date, $376,476.

This time around, the couple celebrated with a full heart, after Ghaneian shared his story with journalists, adding:

“I had a really, really nice rail just rooting me on. It was wonderful. I’m grateful for all of them. This one is just amazing to not have that stress of stuff. We get to go eat with them and hang out with the kids, take them to dinner, celebrate the Fourth of July tomorrow, great to be an American. F***in’ love it. I’m grateful, man, I’m very grateful.”

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Jimmy Setna & Jason James

One of the most cheerful moments of the WSOP 2024 happened during Event #75: $1,000 TAG TEAM No-Limit Hold’em, which had 1,73 entries and a prize pool worth $1,264,560. As faith would have it, two close friends from Canada Jimmy Setna and Jason James both became winners and took $190,910.

Both guys have been playing poker for more than 10 years. They were heartful all the way through the Tag Team Event, sharing their mood after the victory.

Setna said that he “always had a lot of belief” in his own success but also knew that “it was gonna happen for Jimmy as well”, while James added: “I’m just very thankful; we have a ton of support around us. I have support from my fiancé as well”.

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Matthew Lambrecht

During the WSOP 2024, US player Matthew Lambrecht finally joined the gang of one-bracelet players by winning Event #76: $10,000 Mystery Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (8-Handed), which had 965 entries and a $8,974,500 prize pool.

This victory brought Lambrecht his best cash ($1,018,933) and third World Series of Poker trophy, adding to his two rings from WSOP Circuit in 2016 and 2018. After his victory lap, Lambrecht commented:

“I feel great. I recently just had my biggest score so this is another one, so it’s like, certainly. Maybe I’ll play more of the bigger stuff later this year or next year, like the $25ks or something.”

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Wing Po Liu

As of 2024, there are only nine players from Hong Kong who have ever won a WSOP bracelet and only one player who has ever won two. We’re talking about Wing Po Liu, who won his second bracelet at the WSOP 2024 in Event #77: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet (6-Handed), which saw 468 entries and a prize pool of $1,041,300.

Wing Po Liu took his previous bracelet and a $209,942 prize in the €5K PLO WSOPE 2023 event. This time he renewed his best cash taking a $246,797 prize:

“While it was exciting in Europe, in Vegas it is really special. The field is bigger and this is my first mixed game final table. I am not very familiar with the other games [except NLH and PLO], but I just use my own way to think about the games. More exploitative and less theory-based strategies.”

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Georgios Skarparis

It is always good to keep a promise but when you make it with something that matters to another person, then its even more satisfying. Something like that happened to Cypriot Georgios Skarparis when he won Event #78: $1,000 MINI Main Event – a promise he made to his student Kyriakos Oxinos.

The event came with 6.076 registered entries and a $5,346,880 prize pool.

Oxinos tragically died in a car accident a few years back, prompting Skarparis to do everything he could to win a WSOP bracelet and honor his friend’s memory. After fulfilling his promise, Skarparis was overwhelmed, struggling to find the words to describe his feelings.

Instead, he simply celebrated with his friends from Cyprus.

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Daniel Perkusic

What WSOP situation could get the titles of the craziest one? More than a few would argue its what happened to German Daniel Perkusic during the final table of Event #79: $50,000 HIGH ROLLER Pot-Limit Omaha, which had 187 entries and a $8,929,250 prize pool.

Perkusic was the only player at the final table without a bracelet. Somehow, he managed to persist against more experienced players, including Danny Tang, Jim Collopy, Ronald Keijzer, Santhosh Suvarna, Gabriel Andrade, David Benyamine, and Brian Rast.

After successfully swimming though the “alligator pond”, Perkusic finally took his first bracelet and a $2,100,325 prize. He refrained from commenting due to a deep and overwhelming emotional reaction to the victory.

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Francis Anderson

For 16 years of his live poker career, six of which were spent in Las Vegas, US poker player Francis Anderson pursued one goal – becoming a WSOP champion. He grinded his heart out to finally and finally reached it at the WSOP 2024 after winning of Event #80: $800 Independence Day Celebration – No-Limit Hold’em, which came with 6,792 entries and a $4,781,568 prize pool.

Anderson met his first bracelet and best cash of $510,040 with a big smile, saying:

“Oh, it’s pretty insane… Like I’ve won a lot of money in poker, but this is by far my biggest outright victory, like not even close my last one was only like $50,000…”

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