Seat 8: Scott Seiver (470,000)
Oh look, Scott Seiver has made another super high roller final table. And, like so many other times he's done so, he'll enter as the shortest stack left, this time bringing 470,000 to Day 3.
When the players reached the money, Seiver joked to a member of the PokerNews reporting staff that if you added up the total amount of chips he's cashed with in the last four super high roller events, he probably wouldn't have more than what the current average stack was. We did the math and it turns out Seiver's claim was very true.
At the time of making the money, there were nine players left, which made the average stack just over 1.972 million in chips. Seiver had 485,000. In the last three super high roller events he's cashed in — the 2015 Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge, the 2015 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge, and the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller — Seiver cashed with approximately 475,000, 545,000, and 405,000 in chips, respectively. The total of those four amounts are 1.91 million, putting him under the 1.972 million average when he cashed in this event.
With all of those results in these high-stakes events, Seiver is certainly no stranger to big buy-in tournament poker and big-time success. In fact, he holds one super high roller title from the 2013 PCA when he won the $100,000 Super High Roller for over $2 million. Besides that outstanding performance, Seiver has cashed in nine other open events that boast a buy-in of €50,000 or higher.
All told, Seiver's career live tournament earnings are nearly $15.2 million, not including the result he will finish with in this one. He won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet in 2008 for $755,891 and the World Poker Tour World Championship in 2011 for $1,618,344. Currently eighth on poker's all-time money list, Seiver's already won over $2 million in 2015 after coming off back-to-back years winning more than $4 million from live tournaments. Plus, he's the recent new No. 1 on the Global Poker Index, and this result is only going to help him solidify his position.
Sure, he's the short stack in the final eight, but Seiver has proven time and time again he knows what it takes to ladder up the pay scale despite the odds being stacked against him.