Meet Huck Seed
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With 43 players remaining in the field, we still have one man left standing with a chance to win a second Main Event title this week.
Huck Seed is a professional poker player who grew up in Montana where he was a star basketball player on his high school team. From there, Seed attended the California Institute of Technology as an engineering student. On a break from college in 1989, Huck began playing poker regularly and has never looked back. A staggering six foot, seven-inch man, Huck Seed is far from intimidating in demeanor. He’s soft-spoken and generally regarded as one of the nice guys in the world of poker.
Seed has his picture on the walls of the Amazon Room in Las Vegas for his victory in the 1996 WSOP Main Event. That earned him his lone seven-figure tournament payday as he took home his second gold bracelet and $1,000,000 in cash. He's since picked up another two bracelets, including a second appearance at the Main Event final table in 1999. This year, Huck took down the Tournament of Champions at the WSOP, the invitation-only event that scored him a cool half-million dollars. All told, he's racked up just shy of $6 million in career tournament cashes.
Seed’s also done very well for himself outside of the WSOP. He’s traveled the world playing the tournament circuit and had deeps runs and hefty cashes all over the place. He’s won events at the Festa al Lago III WPT event, the World Poker Finals, and the L.A. Poker Classic.
Whether it’s maneuvering through large fields or playing one on one in heads-up tournaments, Seed adjusts to any form. He has perennially done very well for himself at the National Heads-Up Poker Championships. Seed cashed in 2005 for $25,000, in 2006 for $125,000, in 2007 again for $25,000, and in 2008 for $125,000. As if that’s not good enough, Seed won the event in 2009 and pocketed $500,000 after he defeated Vanessa Rousso in the final match. Seed also has a win in the Canadian Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Huck is getting a bit short on chips at the last count (95,000/24bb), but as long as he's got the proverbial chip and a chair, he might well be one of the favorites to make another WSOP final table run here in London.