Scott Seiver | |
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![]() Seiver at American Poker Awards (2015)
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Nickname(s) | The Deipnosophist / mastrblastr / Gunning4you |
Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
Born |
April 14, 1985 (age 32) Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
World Series of Poker | |
Bracelet(s) | 1 |
Money finish(es) | 22 |
Highest ITM Main Event finish |
None |
World Poker Tour | |
Title(s) | 1 |
Final table(s) | 1 |
Money finish(es) | 3 |
Scott Seiver (born April 14, 1985 in Columbus, Ohio) is a professional poker player from Cold Spring Harbor, New York, now residing in Las Vegas, Nevada who won the 2008 World Series of Poker $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.
Seiver, with twelve cashes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), won his bracelet 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 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 North American Poker Tour (NAPT) at Mohegan Sun earning $190,000.
In May 2011, Scott 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.