Name: Erik Seidel
Website: erikseidel.com
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Screenname: Erik Seidel
Poker Site: FullTilt Poker
Birthday: couldn’t find one
Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel is a man who is always looking for competition. That is why he prefers poker tournaments almost exclusively to cash games. Erik was born in New York and dropped out of college in order to become a professional backgammon player. Erik joined the Mayfair Club in New York, a club where a large number of highly skilled game players joined together. Erik started playing poker when he was visiting Las Vegas for a backgammon tournament. When he returned to New York, he brought poker back with him and a group formed to study poker. This group included people who are big names in poker today, such as Action Dan Harrington and Howard Lederer.
Erik played poker for a while, but rationally decided it would be best to have a stable income, and so he went to work on Wall Street. Two years later, the stock market crash of 1987 drove Erik back to poker. Shortly after returning to poker, Erik Seidel found himself heads-up against Johnny Chan in the World Series of Poker Main Event. Johnny Chan eliminated Erik Seidel on a hand that has been immortalized in poker lore, thanks to the movie “Rounders” Most of the common poker players know Erik Seidel because of this movie and don’t recognize him for the truly great poker player that he is.
Erik Seidel and his family moved to Las Vegas after the Main Event so that Erik could play poker full time. Since then, Erik has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets, and has proven himself to be one of the best poker players in the world.
Erik Seidel is a member of Team Full Tilt, which is Full Tilt Poker’s team of professional poker players. You can find Erik Seidel playing online exclusively at Full Tilt Poker. Erik also writes advice columns for Full Tilt Poker players. Full Tilt Poker is one of the best online poker rooms in the world and if you wish to play at Full Tilt Poker all you have to do is go to fulltiltpoker.com and sign up for a new account.