Erik Seidel Biography
Erik Seidel was born on the 6th of November, 2009 in New York City. As a kid Erik was always playing a wide variety of games. After high school, Seidel enrolled at Brooklyn College and it was here that Seidel learned how to play backgammon and his gambling career really took off. After mastering the game Seidel decided to drop out of college and play backgammon professionally. He played for a few years at the popular Mayfair Club in New York, but the gambling life style and uncertainty caught up to Erik and he opted for a job as a stock broker after a few years. Seidel eventually made his way back to the Mayfair Club and this was right around the time that no limit hold’em poker was being introduced to New York. Seidel immediately fell in love with the game and it became his new passion.
In 1988 Seidel wanted to test himself against the best in the World so he asked his friends to invest in him and set off to Las Vegas to play in the WSOP. Seidel had planned to play ten events and after busting out before the money in the first nine events Seidel needed a big score to take home a profit. Luckily for him and his investors that is exactly what Seidel got. In the main event of the 1988 WSOP Seidel made it to heads up play with Johnny Chan before being trapped to perfection by Johnny and finishing in second.
Seidel did bounce back after being so close to his first bracelet and now has 8 to call his own. He also has another 57 WSOP cashes to go with the bracelets. Seidel still has what it takes to add more bracelets to his collection with his last win coming in 2007 when he won the $5K no limit deuce to seven lowball tournament and walked away with $539,000. Seidel also finished second in the ’08 Aussie Millions main event and now has over $9,000,000 in career tourney winnings.
Erik Seidel is a full member of Team Full Tilt and he can often be found playing poker online at Full Tilt Poker. Seidel will play a variety of stakes in order to give players with all bankroll sizes the chance to play a poker legend. In fact I lost to Seidel heads up in a $10 HORSE sit and go.
