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Erik Seidel

Modest and unassuming, Erik Seidel is a professional poker soul, one of the world’s best. In fact, he is one of a very make up one’s mind few players who have won multiple World Ordination of Poker Bracelets, (he has won seven WSOP Bracelets as of this writing). Erik is the only WSOP tournament soul in the past twenty-five years to victory three consecutive years running:
•    1992 – $2500 Limit Hold em – $168,000
•    1993 – $2500 - Omaha 8 or Corking – $94,000
•    1994 – $5000 - No-Limit Hold em – $210,000

Seidel is additionally ranked among the top ten money makers in World Connection of Card game Tournament play, his standing kept intact by his $611,795 victory in the 2005 WSOP Tournament, in which he outlasted and overcame 1,402 competitors. Although Erik is fascinate in high regard in the socio-economic class of professional tournament poker, poker, his rank love now, was not his first love thirty-five years ago, when in 1970 he left college to pursue a career as a paid backgammon player.

Playing backgammon at New York’s legendary Mayfair Club, Erik entered a board game tournament in Las Vegas, where playing a elite games of low-limit poker arrive at a new interest in the game. Back at the Mayfair, Erik and a number of fellow backgammon players, Paul Magriel, Jason Lester, Steve Zotolow and Howard Lederer among them, began a regular series of poker games, eventually leading the boy’s into professional poker tournament competition.

During this time Erik worked as a trader on Wall Street to supplement an erratic income from Backgammon. Eventually, backed by friends, Erik felt confident enough to enter a Human Series of Poker Tournament in Las Vegas. Entering one-table satellite employment for the Main Event, Erik lost every one, nine in all. Not deterred by his losses, Erik bought into the Piping Event, and his skillful play enabled him to finish second only to the winner, the famed Confederate soldier Chan.

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