Huck Seed

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**Huck Seed**
Huck Seed on NBC's Poker After Dark
Nickname(s)	None
Hometown
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)	4
Money finishes	33
Highest ITM main event finish	Winner, 1996
World Poker Tour
Titles	0
Final tables	0
Money Finishes	2

Huckleberry (Huck) Seed (born 1969?) is an American professional poker player.

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 1996 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, and the $1,000,000 first prize. He made the final table of the 1999 WSOP event, but finished 6th (eventual champion Noel Furlong eliminated him).

Seed is often considered intimidating because of his height at 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) and the fact that he rarely speaks at the table. An avid proposition gambler, Huck, or "Huckleberry", as he sometimes likes to be called, 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.^[1] He then went on to win $24,000 back from Hellmuth by playing 9 Ball at $2,000 a game.

Seed recently played in NBC's Poker After Dark series, where he finished second to Gus Hansen in the season's first tournament.

As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,400,000. He has 4 WSOP bracelets.