While Erik Seidel may not be the one of the players called when people like to discuss as the best player of the gambling world of today but he is highly undervalued player if not considered as the one of best players of today’s gaming environment, specifically he should be in the list of players those are running as the best players of all the time. He was born in 1959 at the New York City and began to walk over the track of poker tables while languishing at the coast of backgammon board and stocks of the wall streets in Las Vegas.

He was playing at Backgammon as a professional player since 8 years. Even though he was forming a place for himself, the slighter tournaments and his prize pools prepared him yearn for the stronger challenges. Soon he has discovered the facts that are covered on the poker tables. Erik Seidel has originated the legendary of Mayfair Club in the New York City in 1985 and played for the Backgammon tournaments with his talent and discovered the prior knowledge of the poker games. He followed the footprints of some other remarkable personality of the poker tournaments such as Dan Harrington, Howard Ledered and Steve Zolotow to chase this game as professionally.

In 1988, he appeared in the WSOP championship Main Event and maneuvered his all ways to capture the final table of the poker game against the Jim Bechtel in 1993. After some years Erik Seidel picked up his first capture of the bracelet which is now become the 8th in World Series of the Poker bracelets with a returned amount of $10,000 in the championship of Event at the final table in 2009. This winning has proved him as the best player of the year.