Scott Seiver

Scott Seiver is an American professional poker player who was born in Columbus, Ohio, on April 14, 1985. He currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, but is originally from Cold Spring Harbor, New York. He is well known for being fiercely aggressive on the tables.

Scoot Seiver has gone on to become one of the greatest poker players in the history of the game. He has won over $23.8 million in live tournaments throughout his career. The fact that Scott Seiver excels at cash games has significantly increased his wealth in recent years.

Scott Seiver: Early Life

Scott was born and raised in New York, where he also started his education. He attended Brown University, which is where his admiration for poker first developed and excelled. Then, he started showing a lot of interest in the poker world during his first year at Brown University. He took the time to become familiar with all the details of the game, and the results were excellent right away.

Scott stopped going to the casino for a while and concentrated on playing online poker games after realizing that studying took up the majority of his time. Online poker player Scott Seiver used a variety of nicknames, such as Mastrblastr on Full Tilt and Gunning4you on PokerStars.

Scott studied hard while passionately following his passion. Resulting in him earning a degree in computer science and economics from Brown University. 

Since Scott had come to the realization that poker was his calling, he gave up his job and turned to poker full-time. Since he had the time to focus his attention and make poker his primary focus. He started taking part in live and online tournaments. He currently considers himself to be among the best poker players in the poker community and shows more powerful skills and abilities.

Scott Seiver: Poker Career

Scott finished 44th in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event on June 9th, 2007, at the Annual World Series of Poker, taking home a prize of $14,708. He finished 243rd and earned $3,441 at the following competition on the 30th of the same month. In the short time that followed, he played in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em rebuy and finished 32nd, earning $16,133. Seiver finished 14th in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em on June 2, 2008, earning him $9,732.

He jumped to popularity after winning first place at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 21st event. The event lasted three days (June 11th through June 13th, 2008). With 731 entries, Seiver won $755,891 in cash and his first gold bracelet. His life changed, and he became more interested in playing poker for the rest of his life. He pursued this further and took part in numerous other events.

Additionally, Scott Seiver participated in the $10,000 8-Game Mix Championship, finishing 22nd and earning $16,243. Scott grew quite confident after winning the No-Limit Hold’em tournament in June 2008, with a $5,000 buy-in.

In 2009, he took part in the PCA $24,500 No-Limit Hold’em high-roller tournament. Scott finished third and received $137,000 in this case. He participated in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Five Diamond World Poker Classic later that year. Scott Seiver’s net worth increased by $218,008 as a result of this.

In every game he played, Scott Seiver’s poker career rose to new heights, and he was eager to do more. He competed in and finished fourth in the $25,000 High-Roller Bounty Invitational Shootout at the Deep Stack Extravaganza in 2010. Also, he cashed in $215,000 in total. Seiver won fourth place at the PokerStars.net North American 2010 Poker Tour not long after that occasion. The event was held at Mohegan Sun, and as a result, his net worth increased by $190,000.

When Scott Seiver participated in PokerStars’ The Big Game, his popularity skyrocketed. He demonstrated a unique way to play poker here by covering his mouth to hide mouth-breathing tells. 

During the 2010 L.A. In the Poker Classic, he faced Daniel Alaei, Jason Mercier, Lee Markholt, Tommy Vedes, and other participants for the $25,100 buy-in High-Roller event. He won $425,330 in cash as the first-place finisher at the final table.

Scott Seiver participated in the WPT World Championship Season 9 the following year in May. As a result, he received his first seven-figure payout of $1,618,344. When Scott Seiver’s poker game improved, he won the PCA 2013 Super High-Roller event on January 8th for $2,003,480 in cash. Seiver finished sixth in The Big One for One Drop with $1,000,000 buy-ins at the World Series of Poker in the middle of 2014. He was unstoppable, and in the fifth month of 2015, the Global Poker Ranking Index had him at the top. The following July, he finished second in the $5,000,000 Super-High Roller Bowl. He went home a happy man, having won $5.1 million in cash.

He was unstoppable. In October 2016, he had over $21,000,000 in the bank after totaling his live earnings. Scott Seiver’s poker life was improving, and he continued to give it his all to stay at the top.

The second bracelet was won ten years later, in 2018. This is when Scott Seiver decided to pursue his desire to win yet another bracelet. Then he competed in the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship, finishing first. This was held at the Rio in Las Vegas. He won $296,222 in cash and a second gold bracelet. Earlier in the event, Scott Seiver hinted that he was interested in winning another bracelet and dismissed claims that the bracelets didn’t matter. He finished second in the $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw, winning $115,516 and increasing Scott Seiver’s net worth.

Scott Seiver Poker was on everyone’s mind in June 2019. This was after winning a third World Series of Poker gold bracelet. He won the jackpot of $301,421. He stated in an interview following the victory that it took him a lot of effort and focus in the games he plays so that he didn’t fall behind. Plus, he added that it wasn’t by pure chance, but instead through giving your “A” game to the table.

He won another noteworthy prize of $320,059 in the 53rd World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in July 2022. He won first place and didn’t stop there because he finished third at the PokerGO Tour Poker Masters in Las Vegas in October of that same year, taking home $296,000.

Conclusion

Scott Seiver is a well-known name in the poker world. He enjoys what he does and puts forth a lot of effort. He became successful and popular not only for his winnings but also for the strategy and skills he used to maintain his position at the top. Scott began playing poker at a young age and now sits along with the industry’s biggest names. He is also active in live and online tournaments, and he was most recently seen at the 54th World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.