The World Series of Poker released the list of 2024 WSOP Online winners. Some big names won their online bracelets this year. There are 20 online bracelet winners, with ten more bracelets up for grabs. Also, it includes five live-online hybrid tournaments.
Some top poker players who emerged victors this year include Mike Watson, David Prociak, and Jared Hyman. Watson achieved a Poker Triple Crown with the win. On the other hand, it was Prociak’s second bracelet in a month. It was Hyman’s first WSOP bracelet.
Watson Achieves Poker Triple Crown
Mike Watson won the WPT Bellagio Cup in 2008, bringing home $1,673,770. He also won the 2023 EPT Monte Carlo and the 2016 PCA live events. Yet, he was still unable to win a WSOP bracelet. After the WPT victory, Watson went on to place in the top two spots in six different WSOP bracelet events, the most recent of which being Event #60: $1,600 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw in 2023, when he took home $93,495.
After winning $138,327 in the $1,000 6-Max Online Championship, Watson finally owns a WSOP bracelet.
WSOP Online Event #21 Final Table
- Mike Watson – $138,327
- Michael McNeil – $101,118
- Michael Balan – $74,324
- John Gallaher – $54,630
- Derek Kwan – $40,428
- Matt Salsberg – $30,108
Two Bracelets for Prociak in a Month
In 2016, David Prociak won the first bracelet. It took 2,920 days before he won his second bracelet earlier this summer in Event #11: $1,500 Badugi. According to GamingNewsHouse.com sources, he defeated 1,448 opponents to win the $600 Online Deepstack Championship worth $107,984. Now, he has won a second tournament in only 32 days. Davide Suriano, a past bracelet winner, placed eighth but won the heads-up match against Thai Yong Wong of Singapore.
WSOP Online Event #18 Final Table
- David Prociak – $107,984
- Thai Yong Wong – $78,818
- Gennady Krolik – $57,940
- Robert Samuels – $42,927
- Scott Blackman – $31,746
- David Woodley – $23,692
- James Romero – $17,750
- Davide Suriano – $13,449
- Rick Mechammil – $10,243
First WSOP Bracelet for Hyman
The $555 PLO Mystery Bounty 6-Max was Jared Hyman’s first bracelet at the World Series of Poker. He beat out 1,970 other players for the prize. He has now surpassed his previous highest WSOP cash of $21,000, earned when he placed 685th in the 2022 Main Event, with a payout of $95,844.
According to pay per head reviews and news sites, participating at the final table was Yuri Dzivielevski, a Brazilian poker player who had previously won a bracelet at the World Series of Poker this summer.
WSOP Online Event #17
- Jared Hyman – $95,844
- Stephen Sola – $69,531
- Matthew Schulte – $50,348
- Matthew Smith – $36,750
- Yuri Dzivielevski – $27,048
- Christopher Battenfield – $19,845
- Jonathan Thomas – $14,700
- Leonid Yanovski – $10,952
Other WSOP Online Winners
Daniel Chan won his third WSOP bracelet after beating Jesse Yaginuma in the $1,000 Mystery Bounty Championship. He won Events #13 and #16 in 2023. But his $165,178 in Event #19 earnings are greater than the sum of those two. His previous best WSOP cash was $86,735 in the 2017 Millionaire Maker, a significant improvement.
Johan Schultz-Pedersen proved he had better poker strategies compared to Jonathan Dokler. As a result, Schultz-Pedersen won the $400 Online Colossus, his first WSOP bracelet. There were 1,544 players in the tournament, and Schultz-Pedersen took home over $150,000. Though he came in second place and pocketed $106,925, Dokler did take home $130,426 in the No Limit Hold’em Kickoff, the first bracelet event of the 2020 WSOP Online.
