Canada’s Mike Watson is one of the latest bracelet winners at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP). The 40-year-old poker pro, who has been a dominant force on the live poker circuit for over 20 years, has amassed $29 million in live earnings, with several major victories on several prestigious tours. While he has won several big tournaments, one trophy that has eluded Watson was a WSOP bracelet. Finally, 17 years after his first WSOP cash, Watson claimed his first bracelet.
Watson claimed the coveted bracelet just recently by taking down the WSOP Online Event #21: NL Hold’em 6-Max Online Championship to earn $138,327 in top prize. This coveted victory made the Toronto, Ontario resident the 10th player in history to achieve poker’s prestigious ‘triple crown,’ with wins at the WSOP, World Poker Tour, and European Poker Tour – all world-famous poker tours.
Watson is a four-time Triton Poker event winner along with Fedor Holz and Wai Kin Yong . He won a high roller event in 2012 during that year’s World Series of Poker Europe, but sadly that tournament was not listed in the WSOP bracelet category. Watson topped a star-studded field of 60 entries in that $66,060 buy-in tournament and earned a whopping $1,301,900 for his top-notch performance.
In WSOP Online Event #21: NL Hold’em 6-Max Online Championship, Watson had to face a tough competition especially in the final phase of the tournament. He had to overcome the likes of bracelet winner Mitch Halverson (16th – $ 5,870), bracelet winner Ryan Hiller (13th – $7,858), bracelet winner and two-time WPT champion Kevin Eyster (10th – $10,131), Frank Bonacci ( 8th – $17,137), and WPT champion Matthew Salsberg (6th) on his way to bracelet victory. Finally, he clashed with Michael McNeil, who could not go all the way and had to eventually settle for the runner-up prize – $101,118.
WSOP Online Event #21: NL Hold’em 6-Max Online Championship Final Table Payouts
| 1 | Michael Watson | $138,327 |
| 2 | Michael McNeil | $101,118 |
| 3 | Michael Balan | $74,324 |
| 4 | John Gallaher | $54,630 |
| 5 | Derek Kwan | $40,428 |
| 6 | Matthew Salsberg | $30,108 |
| 7 | Scott Castelluccio | $22,629 |
| 8 | Frank Bonacci | $17,137 |
| 9 | Aidan Long | $13,066 |
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