2024 WSOP Online: Watson Becomes Poker's 10th Triple Crown Winner; Prociak Claims Third Bracelet

Will Shillibier
Managing Editor
5 min read
Mike Watson David Prociak

The World Series of Poker has released the names of the latest online bracelet event winners, with some big names coming out on top and adding WSOP bracelets to their names.

This brings the total number of online bracelets awarded so far to 20, with only 10 more remaining. These include five live-online hybrids, the final tables of which take place on July 14, 15 and 17.

Stay tuned to PokerNews as we bring you all the updates from the 2024 World Series of Poker.

After 15 Years, Watson Claims Poker's Triple Crown

Mike Watson

In 2008, Mike Watson won $1,673,770 in the WPT Bellagio Cup. Two live EPT Main Event titles came, at the 2016 PCA and 2023 EPT Monte Carlo. But the bracelet still eluded him.

Since that WPT win, Watson has six runner-up spots in WSOP bracelet events, most recently in 2023 when he finished second in Event #60: $1,600 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw for $93,495.

Well Watson now has his first bracelet after winning the $1,000 6-Max Online Championship for $138,327.

"It feels good to finally get the monkey off the back and get a bracelet on the resume," Watson told PokerNews.

"[Winning a Triple Crown] is a cool accomplishment. I think three of those plus a Triton [title] is probably a little bit more special, so it's definitely a nice thing to have on the resume."

WSOP Online Event #21: $1,000 NL Hold'em 6-Max Online Championship Final Table Results

PlacePlayerCountryPayout (USD)
1Mike WatsonCanada$138,327
2Michael McNeilUnited States$101,118
3Michael BalanUnited States$74,324
4John GallaherUnited States$54,630
5Derek KwanUnited States$40,428
6Matt SalsbergUnited States$30,108

Other notables to cash in Event #21 include Kevin Eyster (10th - $10,131), Cord Garcia (38th - $2,840), Bryce Yockey (41st - $2,840), Harry Lodge (55th - $2,651), Mike Leah (81st - $2,272) and Ryan Riess (89th - $2,272).

Prociak Wins Two Bracelets in a Month

David Prociak

It took 2,920 days for David Prociak to win his second bracelet earlier this summer in Event #11: $1,500 Badugi after winning his first back in 2016.

He's now won a second in just 32 days after beating 1,448 players to win the $600 Online Deepstack Championship for $107,984. He defeated Singapore's Thai Yong Wong heads-up, with former bracelet winner Davide Suriano finishing in eighth place.

WSOP Online Event #18: $600 NL Hold'em Online Deepstack Championship Final Table Results

PlacePlayerCountryPayout (USD)
1David ProciakUnited States$107,984
2Thai Yong WongSingapore$78,818
3Gennady KrolikUnited States$57,940
4Robert SamuelsUnited States$42,927
5Scott BlackmanUnited States$31,746
6David WoodleyUnited States$23,692
7James RomeroUnited States$17,750
8Davide SurianoItaly$13,449
9Rick MechammilUnited States$10,243

Notables who also cashed include Frank Funaro (89th - $1,642), Ari Engel (90th - $1,642) and Chris Hunichen (137th - $1,329).

Maiden Bracelet for Hyman

Jared Hyman picked up his first WSOP bracelet in the $555 PLO Mystery Bounty 6-Max after topping a field of 1,970 players.

His previous biggest WSOP cash came when he finished 685th in the 2022 WSOP Main Event for $21,000, but he has now bested that with a $95,844 payday.

Also at the final table was Brazilian poker player Yuri Dzivielevski, who has already won a WSOP bracelet this summer.

WSOP Online Event #17: $555 PLO Mystery Bounty 6-Max

PlacePlayerCountryPayout (USD)
1Jared HymanUnited States$95,844
2Stephen SolaUnited States$69,531
3Matthew SchulteUnited States$50,348
4Matthew SmithNew Zealand$36,750
5Yuri DzivielevskiBrazil$27,048
6Christopher BattenfieldUnited States$19,845
7Jonathan ThomasUnited States$14,700
8Leonid YanovskiIsrael$10,952

Bracelet #3 for Chan in Mystery Bounty Championship

Daniel Chan

It was a heads-up battle to see who win a third bracelet in the $1,000 Mystery Bounty Championship, but eventually it was Daniel Chan who came out on top, with Jesse Yaginuma having to settle for second place.

Chan has now won three online WSOP bracelets, after winning Event #13 and #16 in 2023 for combined cashes of $112,000.

However, he's earned more than those two combined in Event #19, winning $165,178. This result is also his largest WSOP cash ever, beating an 11th-place finish in the 2017 Millionaire Maker for $86,735.

WSOP Online Event #19: $1,000 NL Hold'em Mystery Bounty Championship Final Table Results

PlacePlayerCountryPayout (USD)
1Daniel ChanUnited States$165,178
2Jesse YaginumaUnited States$119,830
3Jesse McVickerUnited States$86,769
4Maksym AvadUnited States$63,335
5Wojciech BarzantnyAustria$46,615
6Sammy LafleurCanada$34,201
7Pete MalesUnited States$25,334
8Matt WiddoesUnited States$18,874
9Nicholas FebbraioUnited States$14,187

Notables to finish in the money in the Mystery Bounty Championship include Aliaksandr Shylko (14th - $8,234), Heather Alcorn (29th - $3,927), Renan Bruschi (38th - $3,167), Jeff Gross (39th - $3,167), Alex Foxen (60th - $2,913) and Chad Eveslage (90th - $2,407).

Schultz-Pedersen Denies Dokler Second Bracelet

Johan Schultz-Pedersen

Johan Schultz-Pedersen has won his first WSOP bracelet in the $400 Online Colossus, defeating Jonathan Dokler heads-up to top a 1,544-player field and win close to $150,000.

Dokler won the first bracelet of the 2020 WSOP Online winning the No Limit Hold'em Kickoff for $130,426, but he would have to settle for second place and $106,925 on this occasion.

Seventh-place Frank Brannen won an online bracelet last year in Event #23: NLH Deepstack Championship, but he couldn't add to his tally this year.

WSOP Online Event #20 - $400 NL Hold'em COLOSSUS Final Table Results

PlacePlayerCountryPayout (USD)
1Johan Schultz-PedersenAustria$149,745
2Jonathan DoklerUnited States$106,925
3Benjamin UnderwoodUnited States$76,392
4Joseph WaltersUnited States$54,618
5Marko GrujicUnited States$39,291
6Demetrius CampbellUnited States$28,586
7Frank BrannenUnited States$20,923
8Jonathan TareUnited States$15,327
9Thomas NymanUnited States$11,313

Other notables to cash in this event include Chino Rheem (13th - $6,569), Michael Ruane (19th - $3,893), Chris Hunichen (26th - $3,284), Shannon Shorr (31st - $2,919), Ryan Riess (33rd - $2,919) and Ian Matakis (39th - $2,676).

Kuether Denied Heads-Up by Moon

Joe Kuether

Over the course of his poker career, Christopher Moon has amassed over $1 million in poker earnings, but a WSOP bracelet had eluded him.

The former MSPT and HPT champion took down the $1,000 NL Hold'em Championship for $139,248, defeating Joe Kuether heads-up.

Moon finished tenth in Event #5: Triple Treys earlier in the WSOP Online schedule, but closed this one out for his first WSOP bracelet after defeating a field of 1,059 players.
Brett Apter

WSOP Online Event #22: $1,000 NL Hold'em Championship

PlacePlayerCountryPayout (USD)
1Christopher MoonUnited States$139,248
2Joe KuetherUnited States$101,791
3D'Andre BrownUnited States$74,818
4Mordechai GoldnerUnited States$54,994
5Joey CoudenUnited States$40,697
6David MzareulovAzerbaijan$30,309
7Joseph ElpayaaUnited States$22,779
8Bill SchonsheckUnited States$17,251
9Brett ApterUnited States$13,153

Both Joey Couden and Brett Apter had won bracelets before, but they couldn't add to their tallies after making the final table, falling in fifth and ninth respectively.

Meanwhile, Greg Merson (25th - $3,717), Joao Vieira (29th - $3,717), Chris Hunichen (30th - $3,717), Kathy Liebert (40th - $2,859) and Chris Moorman (94th - $2,287) all ran deep.

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Will Shillibier
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Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor. He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.

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