Seidel Climbing the Ranks
Level 12
: 10,000/20,000, 0 ante
With the elimination of David Steicke in fourth place, Erik Seidel has now locked up at least $625,000 in prize money from this event. He's already won over $340,000 this year and it's still the first month of the year. That means Seidel's nearly earned himself a cool million dollars on the year.
By earning at least third-place money, Seidel has now jumped from eleventh on the all-time money list to seventh place, overtaking Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi. The highest he can go on that list today is fourth place and it won't matter if he gets second or first in this event. If Seidel can get first though, he'll be less than $20,000 away from catching Jamie Gold and moving into third overall.