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Seidel, a former bond trader from
Henderson Nevada, is a veteran of the poker world. Although the
ever-careful Seidel has not attained the same amount of fame that some of
the other talented players have with the recent poker boom, his name
frequently comes up when poker players are asked to name the players they
respect the most. One memorable duel he had was with Johnny Chan when Chan
won his second consecutive world championship, trapping the then-young and
inexperienced Seidel into moving in with a pair of queens when Chan held
the nut straight. In the time since, Seidel has become, at least within
the poker world, almost as much of a legend as Chan is, but for the rest
of the world, his 15 minutes of fame came too soon, when he was just
getting started in poker, and it can’t have been easy having that
particular moment selected as the one point in actual poker history to go
into worldwide distribution for the
masses.
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Alan Goehring
