Huckleberry Huck Seed
Huckleberry Seed was born November 30, 1968 and grew up in Corvallis, Montana, where he attended Corvallis High School. Huck Seed was an electrical engineering student at Caltech and a member of Fleming House. He took a leave of absence in 1989, started playing poker, and never returned to college.
Seed won the $1,000,000 first prize in the 1996 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event. He made the final table of the 1999 WSOP event, but finished 6th when the eventual champion Noel Furlong eliminated him. In the 2007 Main Event, Seed finished 71st out of 6358 players.
At the 2002 WSOP in his match with Johnny Chan, Seed dealt "the hand that will be talked about for years." Chan bet $20,000 on the Q 3 2 flop, holding a Q 10 of diamonds. Seed threw all his chips into the pot, though he only had a 4 5 hand. In the end, Chan had almost half the chips on the table. Seed still finished 10th in the event.
Huck Seed is often considered intimidating because of his height at 6 feet 7 inches and the fact that he rarely speaks at the table. He once lost $50,000 on a proposition bet with Phil Hellmuth, that he could stand in the ocean with water up to his shoulders for eighteen hours. He lasted only three hours. He then went on to win $24,000 back from Hellmuth by playing 9 Ball at $2,000 a game.
Seed appeared on NBC's Poker After Dark series, where he finished second to Gus Hansen in the season's first tournament.
Fun Facts:
- Known for bizarre proposition bets with fellow pros.
- Holds four gold bracelets in three different game varieties.
- Was a member of the 1987 Montana All-State basketball team.
- Seed was a star player on Caltech's basketball team and is featured in the 2006 documentary Quantum Hoops.