The Pros: Erik Seidel
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Erik Seidel was born and raised in New York, where he was a competitive backgammon player. He spent about 8 years on the backgammon tournament circuit, but moved on to the stock market. Erik now lives in Las Vegas, poker has been Erik's focus for quite some time now.
Erik Seidel is probably most famous for losing large to Johnny Chan in the 1988 World Championship. A dramatic defeat that was captured on in the movie “Rounders.” But losses can be deceiving. That was actually Seidel’s first major tournament ever, and since then, he’s become the sixth all-time biggest money winner in tournament poker.
Erik Seidel is one of the leading money winners in tournament poker, Erik is the only player on both the WSOP and the Bellagio top 10 all time money lists. Erik has 6 WSOP titles, 4 Bellagio titles and numerous other wins that add up to over 5 million in tournament winnings. He was also the points leader in the Champion of the Year standings for 2002-2003. Erik's name often crops up on elite poker players’ “most admired” fellow player lists.
When he’s not playing poker, Seidel can usually be found playing tennis or listening to music.
Picture courtesy of The World Poker Tour
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