Scott Seiver (born April 14, 1985 in
Columbus, Ohio
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) is a professional
poker
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player from
Cold Spring Harbor, New York
Cold Spring Harbor is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington, in Suffolk County, on the North Shore of Long Island in New York. As of the 2010 United States census, the CDP population was 5,070.
History
Cold Spri ...
, now residing in
Las Vegas
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,
Nevada
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who won the
2008 World Series of Poker
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$5,000 No Limit Hold'em event
and is the winner of the $25,100 buy-in High Roller event at the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic.
On April 29, 2015 Seiver became the 9th player in GPI history to be ranked #1.
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Live poker
Seiver, with twelve cashes at the World Series of Poker
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(WSOP), won his first bracelet
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in the 2008 WSOP $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event earning $755,891.
Seiver's other poker accomplishments include springing to fame by appearing on Pokerstars' the Big Game, showcasing his unique mouth-covering method of hiding mouth-breathing tells, as well as winning the $25,100 buy-in High Roller event at the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic earning $425,330 in a final table that included runner-up Daniel Alaei
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Primarily a $50–100 no-limit Texas hold 'em cash game player, Alaei won his first World Series of Poker bracele ...
, Jason Mercier
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(3rd), Lee Markholt
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Markholt's first major win came on the Profe ...
(4th), Tommy Vedes (5th) and Will Molson (6th).
In 2009 he finished 3rd in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $24,500 No Limit Hold'em – High Roller event earning $137,000 and later that year won the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2009 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic earning $218,008.
In 2010 he came in 4th in the $25,000 Invitational High Roller Bounty Shootout earning along with the bounties a total of $215,000 at the 2010 Deep Stack Extravaganza, later he finished 4th at the Main Event of the 2010 PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour
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(NAPT) at Mohegan Sun
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It is in the foothills of southeastern Connecticut, ...
earning $190,000.
In May 2011, Scott Seiver won the Season IX WPT World Championship. He defeated Farzad Bonyadi heads-up, earning $1,618,344.
On January 8, 2013, Seiver won the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event for $2,003,480.
On June 29, 2014, he finished 6th in the $1,000,000 The Big One for One Drop
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at the 2014 World Series of Poker
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.
As of May 2015, he hit rank 1 on the Global Poker Index Ranking.
On July 2, 2015, Seiver finished 2nd in the $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl for $5,160,000. As of October 2016, his total live earnings exceed $21,600,000.
On May 13, 2022, Seiver was announced as Phil Hellmuth
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's Round 4 opponent in High Stakes Duel
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III. The match was for $800,000, and Hellmuth defeated Seiver on May 18, 2022.
On June 3, 2022, Seiver won his fourth WSOP bracelet in Event #3: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout for $320,059.
World Series of Poker bracelets
References
External links
Poker Verdict: - Player Focus: mastrblastr
poker-king.com – Who is Mastrblastr?
CardPlayer.com the Scoop
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1985 births
Living people
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
World Poker Tour winners
American poker players
Brown University alumni
20th-century American Jews
American people of Italian descent
People from Cold Spring Harbor, New York
21st-century American Jews