Seat 6: Scott Seiver -- 625,000
Scott Seiver is the second shortest stack returning to action today, but like Mike Watson, no one will be wanting to see him double up or start gaining any momentum towards a comeback. With $7.3 million in live tournament earnings, Seiver is one of the most successful players in the world.
For Seiver, he's already having his best year on the live felt, and it's only halfway through May with so much of the year left to come. He's earned over $2.3 million, with the bulk of that coming from the $100,000 Super High Roller at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January that he won to the tune of $2 million. The year prior at the PCA, Seiver had some success as well, winning the $5,000 Heads-Up Event for $78,210 and finishing fifth in the $5,000 8-Game Event for $13,810.
While Seiver is a recognizable face in today's poker world and a regular at the highest stakes around, many either forget or seem to not know that he is also a World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner from back in 2008. At the Series that summer, Seiver defeated David Seidman heads up in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em event to take $755,891.
We mentioned that Seiver has over $2.3 million in earnings this year and the bulk of that came from his massive score at PCA, but you may be asking where the rest of the cash has been earned. Well, Seiver placed third in the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship in January for $100,000, cashed twice in World Poker Tour events, twice at European Poker Tour London in side events and twice at EPT Berlin.