3.
Erik Seidel – Over 19,200,000$
This years number #3 first started to play backgammon professionally for 8 years, tried his luck in the stock market and only after these two main activities he started to play poker for the pro’s having his debut in 1988 when he was runner-up to the main event.
The new yorker was at 35 WSOP final tables, having over 80 money finishes and earning the beautiful sum of 19.200.000$ and over.
In his poker career he finished first place 23 times and won 8 WSOP bracelets, entering the hall of poker fame.
Born and raised in New York, he was ranked number #1 in 2011, and number #2 in 2013, changing places with some of the actual richest poker players in the world.
The next poker player has origins in Romania and he is a vegetarian->
