Mark Seif is a professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada.
Born in 1967 in Egypt, Seif moved to the United States with his family when he was a young boy and attended high school in Pasadena, California. After that, he graduated in 1991 from UCLA with high honors with a bachelor's degree in Economics. From 1994 to 1997, he attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. After he graduated, Seif was selected as a prosecutor for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office and his job involved him working on the OJ Simpson trial. From 1997 to 2001, Seif was a practicing attorney specializing in representing management in labor and employment law, including sexual harassment law. His clients included large multi-national corporations and small businesses. Later in his career, he handled some criminal cases involving serious felonies, including first degree murder.
Seif first learned to play poker around age 6 by participating in a family game. He feels that his experience as a lawyer helps him at the table in reading his opponents. He was using his analytical abilities to play high-stakes games when he won more than a half a million in cash games at the 2001 WSOP. It was then in 2001 when he started to playing poker professionally.
Seif's career took off when he made it to the 2002 WPT Legends of Poker final table and finished in fourth place. In May 2003, Seif had his first WSOP cash in the $3,000 no limit Texas hold'em event, finishing in 9th place at a final table that included Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and Erik Seidel.
Seif's biggest accomplishment happened when he won two WSOP bracelets back-to-back in 2005, winning $181,330 in the $1,500 limit hold'em shootout and $611,145 in the $1,500 no limit hold'em events. He beat a field of 450 players in the first event and 2,013 players in the second event (the third largest field in WSOP history), which had Greg Raymer and Dave Ulliott at the final table. His back-to-back bracelet wins is among the greatest accomplishments in WSOP history considering the size of the fields.
Later in 2005, Seif won the US Poker Championship in seven-card stud at the Taj Majal in Atlantic City, New Jersey for $ 55,000 and th en made the final table at the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) that same year.
In 2007, during season 5 of the WPT, he finished 4th at the 2007 World Poker Challenge in Reno, winning $159,478. During season 7, he finished 5th at the Borgata Poker Open for $287,500.
Seif is a commentator for the Professional Poker Tour on the Travel Channel, was a WPT Boot Camp instructor, and has been representing Absolute Poker since 2004.
As of 2009, Seif has 2 WSOP bracelets, 9 WSOP cashes, and total live tournament winnings exceeding $3,400,000.
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