- Huck Seed
infobox poker player
firstname=Huck
lastname=Seed
nickname=
caption=Seed at the2007 World Series of Poker
hometown=
wsop bracelet count=4
wsop money finishes=35
wsop main event best finish rank=Winner
wsop main event best finish year=1996
wpt titles="None"
wpt final tables="None"
wpt money finishes=3Huckleberry Seed (born
January 15 ,1969 ) is an American professionalpoker player who won the main event of the1996 World Series of Poker .Seed grew up in
Corvallis, Montana , where he attended Corvallis High School. He was a member of the 1987 Montana All-State basketball team. [ [http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/04/03/news/mtregional/znews03.txt Missoulian: Lending a hand: Huckleberry hounded by competition at Texas Hold 'Em charity event ] ] Huck Seed was anelectrical engineering student at Caltech and a member of Fleming House. He took aleave of absence in1989 , started playing poker, and never returned tocollege . Seed was a star player on Caltech's basketball team and is featured in the 2006 documentaryQuantum Hoops .Seed won the
1996 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, and the $1,000,000 first prize. He made the final table of the 1999 WSOP event, but finished 6th (eventual championNoel Furlong eliminated him). In the 2007 Main Event, Seed finished 73rd out of 6358 players.Seed is often considered intimidating because of his height at 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) and the fact that he rarely speaks at the table. An avid proposition gambler, he once lost $50,000 on a
proposition bet withPhil Hellmuth , that he could stand in the ocean with water up to his shoulders for eighteen hours. He lasted only three hours. [ [http://www.inside-edge-mag.co.uk/pokerlife/pokerfeatures/678/top_10_proposition_bets.html Top Ten Proposition Bets] ] He then went on to win $24,000 back from Hellmuth by playing 9 Ball at $2,000 a game.Seed appeared on
NBC 's "Poker After Dark " series, where he finished second toGus Hansen in the season's first tournament.As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,100,000. [ [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=211 Hendon Mob tournament results] ] He has four WSOP bracelets.
World Series of Poker bracelets
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