Poker Players: Player Interviews

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Erik Seidel

With eight WSOP bracelets and now a WPT title Erik Seidel is one of the best live players in the game

A former Wall Street trader and high stakes backgammon player, Seidel made a name for himself when he finished second to Johnny Chan in the 1988 WSOP Main Event. Eight WSOP bracelets and nearly $ 10m worth of tourney winnings later, Seidel is still at it, winning WPT Foxwoods this year and finishing second in the 2008 Aussie Millions.

You play about 50 tournaments a year so you must come up against a lot of internet kids. Do you like playing against them?

Some of them are really good players, so I don’t like that. But a lot of the kids are potheads.

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