Scott Seiver (born April 14, 1985 in

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) is a professional

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player from

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, now residing in

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who won the

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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.GPI View from the Top
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Seiver, with twelve cashes at the

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(WSOP), won his first

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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

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(3rd),

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(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

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(NAPT) at

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earning $190,000. In May 2011, Scott Seiver won the Season IX WPT World Championship. He defeated

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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

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at the

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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

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's Round 4 opponent in

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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.

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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seiver, Scott 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