American Scott Stewart survived a marathon back-and-forth heads-up affair against United Kingdom’s Rob Sherwood on Saturday evening at the Wynn Las Vegas to win the $10,400 buy-in 2024 WPT World Championship for $2,563,900, including a seat to the 2025 WPT World Championship valued at $10,400 in front a lively crowd of family and friends and a live-streamed audience at the World Poker Tour YouTube channel.
The Californian native was donning a well-worn hat with a Budweiser logo and continued to keep himself ‘hydrated’ throughout the event. Stewart was near the top of the chip leaderboard throughout the event in a well-deserved win while visibly having fun every step en route to the title. He now has a coveted WPT trophy to complement his six WSOP Circuit gold rings while nearly doubling his live poker earnings with nearly $3 million in live poker cashes tracked at The Hendon Mob coming into the event.
“They were consistently the best rail ever,” said Stewart to the World Poker Tour about his rail after earning his first WPT title. “Never a dull moment, and never a moment of doubt.”
The action was serious on the sixth and final day of the WPT World Championship. The event attracted a huge field of 2,392 entries across three opening flights, creating a massive $23,441,600 prize pool.
The next four days witnessed the field whittle down to just six hopefuls for the title, with many eyes on WPT Championship Club member Chris Moorman, who finished in fourth place in the WPT World Championship last year to earn a ginormous prize of $2,095,300 for his largest poker cash to date. However, while Moorman did manage to collect his third six-figure score at the WPT, he did suffer a bad beat he will likely remember to hit the rail in fourth place for $1,150,000 instead of winning a pot that would have put him within breathing room of the chip lead.
The final three players agreed to a deal to flatten the pay jumps and guarantee each podium finisher at least a $2 million prize. Christian Roberts hit the rail to collect the adjusted third-place prize of $2,000,000, leaving Stewart and Sherwood battling for the title in a heads-up battle lasting 103 hands across four hours of play. Stewart came out on top to win the title, with Sherwood collecting $2,200,000 for his amazing performance throughout the event.
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2024 WPT Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Stewart | United States | $2,563,900 |
| 2 | Rob Sherwood | United Kingdom | $2,200,000 |
| 3 | Eddie Pak | United States | $2,000,000 |
| 4 | Chris Moorman | United Kingdom | $1,150,000 |
| 5 | Ryan Yu | South Korea | $875,000 |
| 6 | Christian Roberts | Venezuela | $665,000 |
Eddie Pak Led High-Octane Final Table
Eddie Pak began the final table with a small chip lead over British poker legend Chris Moorman. Fireworks were on display with two players nearly immediately hitting the rail with the action already down to four hopefuls after five hands of play, each locking up at least a $1.15 million payout.
Pak maintained his chip lead even after Venezuela’s Christian Roberts called off a four-bet for 29 big blinds with ace-queen suited only to exit in sixth place for $665,000 after Stewart called with aces.
Ryan Yu (fifth – $875,000) then lost a flip a hand later when his nines didn’t win against Pak’s big slick for Pak to extend his chip lead.
Horrific Bad Beat Results in Back-to-Back Fourth Place for Chris Moorman
Nobody expected that there would be three eliminations at the final table during the first 10 hands of play. In theory the action should have still been at four players, but perhaps fate had something else in mind as Moorman ended the event with another fourth-place performance as he suffered a two-outer after getting it in on the flop, after remarkably also taking fourth place for $2,095,300 in the 2023 WPT World Championship.
Moorman four-bet preflop to more than 11 big blinds with queens and was called by Pak with tens. Pak check-jammed the jack-jack-seven flop. Moorman seemed destined to come near the chip lead as he was more than a 9:1 favorite to win the hand. However, a ten spiked the turn and Moorman had to settle for another fourth place performance, this one worth $1,150,000.
Deal Agreed as Fireworks Slow Down
The fireworks temporarily slowed down from there, and the next elimination did not occur until 60 hands later. Pak held more than have the chips in play after delivering Moorman a bad beat that any poker player can empathize with before the final three players agreed to a deal guaranteeing at least a $2 million payout to the players on the podium.
Eventual champion Sherwood woke up with aces again and won a big pot against Pak for his first taste at the chip lead. Sherwood continued to pile on his chip lead over the next few dozen hands before Pak hit the rail on the 69th hand of play.
Sherwood then rivered a full house with his pocket jacks to send Pak out after he rivered a queen-high flush in third place and had all the momentum seemingly on his side, along with his enthusiastic rail entering the heads-up affair against Robert Sherwood.
Four Heads-Up Lead Changes Before Stewart Hoists the Trophy
The more than four-hour heads-up affair took more time to play out than the rest of the eight-hour televised final table. Stewart began with nearly double the stack of Sherwood and began piling on his opponent’s chips to his stack to extend his lead to a 9:1 chip advantage in the first few hands.
It was nearly over before it began as on the 17th hand of the heads-up action, Sherwood limp-jammed for 19 big blinds with ace-jack. Stewart called with queens, but his friendly rail would need to wait to celebrate his victory after an ace appeared on the flop to push Sherwood ahead to double his stack instead of hitting the rail.
Players continued to battle on before Sherwood doubled into the chip lead on the 42nd hand of the heads-up action after a value-bet on the river with king-queen on a queen-high board did the job after Stewart called with tens.
The lead flipped back and forth between the final duo with Sherwood three times taking the lead before coughing it back to Sherwood, who then extended his lead to a 6:1 chip advantage.
Stewart kept his head in the game before winning a sizeable pot to nearly even things up before a game-changing double-up with kings against sixes to leave Sherwood with less than two big blinds on the 101st hand of the heads-up action.
Sherwood doubled once, but it was over a hand later with Sherwood awarded the runner-up prize of $2,200,000 as on the 172nd hand of the final table and the 103rd hand of the heads-up battle after he unsuccessfully shoved seven-trey into Stewart’s jack-ten.
While this brings us to a conclusion of our coverage of the 2024 WPT World Championship, stay tuned at Poker.Pro, as we will have more stories about this fantastic event during the holiday week.
Meanwhile, a massive congrats to Scott Stewart, who immediately called his mom after his victory, for entering his name in the World Poker Tour history books and his epic victory worth $2,563,900 including a seat to the 2025 WPT World Championship valued at $10,400.
* Photos and hands courtesy of the World Poker Tour.
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