The 2024 World Poker Tour (WPT) Third Annual Championship has officially concluded, with six-time circuit ring winner Scott Stewart crowned as the third annual WPT Champion. Stewart topped a massive 2,392 field and defeated England’s Rob Sherwood in a four-hour-long heads-up duel to collect a seven-figure payout and the massive WPT Champions trophy. With this victory, Stewart has now pushed his tournament earnings past $5.5 million.
The $10,400 buy-in no-limit hold’em WPT World Championship drew 2,392 entrants over three starting flights, generating a total prize pool of $23,441,600. Of the 2,392 entries, 299 players secured a mini-cash of $19,600, while the top four finishers secured a seven-figure payday. Several notable players ran deep in this marquee tournament but eventually fell short of victory, including three-time bracelet winner Paul Volpe, high-stakes poker star Mikita Badziakouski, Jeremy Wien, and five-time bracelet winner Brian Yoon.
2024 WPT World Championship Final Table Quick Recap
The final six were formed on Day 5, with Eddie Pak leading the table with over 83bb, followed by WPT champion and two-time bracelet winner Chris Moorman in second and Scott Stewart in third.
Christian Roberts was the first to fall on the final day. Just five hands into the final day of action, Scott Stewart went all in, holding his pocket aces and Roberts snapped, rolling out his ace-queen suit. The flop gave Roberts a flush draw, but his hand did not improve on the remaining two streets, leading to his exit from the tournament in 6th place for $665,000.
Ryan Yu soon followed Roberts in the next hand. He went all in holding pocket nines against the ace-king of Eddie Pak. Pak flopped a full house to send Yu out in 5th place for a $875,000 payday. Five hands later Chris Moorman fell victim to the dominating run of Pak. The WPT champion needed a double-up to stay alive at the table, so he went all in as soon as he got pocket queens. Only to be beaten by the pocket tens of Pak. Pack made a full house as he connected a ten on the turn. Moorman pocketed a seven-figure score of $1,150,000 for his 4th place finish.
After a long and intense three-handed battle, Eddie Pak’s dominating run ended. Pak entered the three-handed play as the chip leader and ended his tournament run in 3rd place. In an interesting post-flop battle, Stewart went all in after making a full house with his jacks. Unaware of Stewart’s hand, Pak with a queen-high flush called. Pak finished in 3rd place and earned a career-high payout of $2,000,000.
Heads-up for The Coveted Title
Stewart entered the heads-up for the title with almost a 2-to-1 chip advantage and eventually extended it to take a 6-to-1 lead over Rob Sherwood. However, Sherwood didn’t give up easily.
He fought back and narrowed the chip gap, eventually edging into the chip lead. The heads-up play lasted over four hours, with the chip lead swinging back and forth between the players. Stewart reversed the role just before the final hand was dealt, leaving Sherwood with almost 2BBs. On the final hand, Stewart moved his stack into the middle, forcing Sherwood for an all-in. Sherwood called, revealing his seven-three against the jack-ten of Stewart.
The board ran out Kc-Jd-5s-5c-8s and gave Stewart two pairs with jacks and fives to lock up the coveted victory. Stewart took home the gigantic $2,563,900 top prize, while Rob Sherwood added $2,200,000 to his poker bankroll. In addition to the top prize money, Stewart also collected a $10,400 entry into the next year’s WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.
2024 WPT World Championship Final Table Payouts
| Rank | Player | Payout |
| 1st | Scott Stewart | $2,563,900 |
| 2nd | Rob Sherwood | $2,200,000 |
| 3rd | Edward Pak | $2,000,000 |
| 4th | Chris Moorman | $1,150,000 |
| 5th | Ryan Yu | $875,000 |
| 6th | Christian Roberts | $665,000 |
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