Seiver enjoys big buy in events and he won the $25k buy-in High Roller event at the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic for $425k. Seiver finished third in the 2009 PCA High Roller event won by Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier. Although predominately a cash game player online, his biggest online tournament score was $134k for a second place finish in the Sunday Million in April 2007. He regularly plays $25/$50 and $50/$100 NLHE online or higher against all comers with profits well over a million. Seiver has total live tournament winnings that exceed $4.2 million. Seiver was born April 14, 1985 in Columbus, Ohio and currently calls Las Vegas, Nevada home.
Things you might not know:
- Seiver grew up in Cold Springs Harbour, New York.
- Seiver went to Brown University graduating with Computer Science and Economics focus in 2007.
- Seiver befriended and learned poker on campus in a game that included Isaac Haxton, Jared Okun, and Mike Graves (two of whom have also won WSOP bracelets).
- Seiver's Brown Blue Room Game played four days a week, as many as thirty players participating and honing their skills.
- Seiver always exuded a fearlessness that was impressive. he was always thinking outside the box, trying to apply pressure to his opponents and playing mind games to take them out of their comfort zone.
- Seiver's first significant live tournament score was in 2006 at the WPT Legends of Poker where he finished in 19th for $26,200.
- Seiver and Haxton were fellow members of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and they and three other players rented a house in Las Vegas for the 2007 World Series of Poker.
- Seiver once worked in an equities department for Lehman Brothers.
- Seiver played as "mastrblastr" on Full Tilt and "Gunning4you" on PokerStars.
- Seiver, after graduating ran his $150k bankroll down to his last $6k before his dominance at heads up play paid off with a dominating stretch that took him to the highest levels online.
- Seiver took on a high stakes Finnish opponent known for hyper-aggressive play and won $800k which cemented his reputation and bankroll.
- Seiver finished 3rd in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $24,500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller event earning $137,000 and later that year won the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2009 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic earning $218,008.
- Seiver defeated Daniel Alaei, Jason Mercier, Lee Markholt, Tommy Vedes and Will Molson at the final table of his High Roller win.
- In 2010 he came in 4th in the $25,000 Invitational High Roller Bounty Shootout earning along with the bounties a total of $215,000 at the 2010 Deep Stack Extravaganza, later he finished 4th at the Main Event of the 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT at Mohegan Sun earning $190,000.
- Seiver lives in the popular poker centric Panorama Towers near the strip in Las Vegas.
- Seiver often gets kidded for looking like the actor Jonah Hill.
- Seiver drives a silver Audi A4.
- Seiver enjoys playing Magic: The Gathering with poker friends like Isaac Haxton, Adam Levy, Eric Froehlich, John Parker, and Justin Bonomo.
When asked how he feels about playing so many big buy in events, he said...
“It’s kind of the same when I play nosebleeds. I don’t feel a whole lot of stress at the time, when I’m playing. It’s not until after when the stress of winning or losing tons of money really sinks in. So maybe you should check with me in six hours. I might be just shaking and twitching on the ground.”
Seiver's videos include an overbet on the river against Lex Veldhuis, High Roller victory interview, owning Daniel Negreanu in a hand, and the lead in to a High Roller tournament:
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