Scott Seiver (born April 14, 1985, in

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) is a professional

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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.

Poker career

Seiver 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 Daniel Alaei, Jason Mercier (3rd), Lee Markholt (4th), Tommy Vedes (5th) and Will Molson (6th). In 2009, Seiver 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, Seiver 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 (NAPT) at

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earning $190,000. In May 2011, 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, Seiver finished 6th in the $1,000,000 The Big One for One Drop at the 2014 World Series of Poker. As of May 2015, Seiver reached #1 on the Global Poker Index Ranking. On July 2, 2015, Seiver finished runner-up in the $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl for $5,160,000. On May 13, 2022, Seiver was announced as

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's Round 4 opponent in High Stakes Duel 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. On June 4 2024, Seiver won his fifth WSOP bracelet in Event #10: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship for $426,744. on June 16, he won his sixth bracelet in the $1,500 Razz event for $141,374. and on June 30th, he won his third bracelet in a month and seventh overall in event #72 $ 10,000 No Limit 2-7 lowball draw championship for $411,041. He won the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year. As of 2023, Seiver's total live earnings exceed $25,600,000.

World Series of Poker bracelets

References

External links

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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