POKER ROAD w/HUCK SEED

For a 7-foot-tall WSOP Main Event champion, Huck Seed sure flies under the radar. That is, to those who've never had to play against him. As a youngster, he made his name by taking down the 1996 World Series of Poker Main Event - his second bracelet in two years. He then earned a reputation as a Razz expert, taking down two Razz bracelets in 2000 and 2003.
Recently, he won the 2009 NBC Heads-Up Championship, upped his overall NBCHU record to 18-4 (all-time best), and is now the only player to have cashed in the event every year.
Huck is a man of few words, usually letting his wry half-smile do the talking after dragging a pot, but I decided to get a few more words out of him.

JS: You’ve now cashed every year in the NBC Heads Up Championship, have a total record of 18-4, and you took down the title in the most recent event. Is there something about your style that lends itself well to this event? Are you just the best HU NL Freezeout player in the world?
HS: If you add in my 10-1 record at the Canadian Heads Up Championship in Calgary, where I came 3rd and 1st in two tries, a record of 28 -5 is an impressive start. I don’t put too much stock in results, however. Erik Seidel, for instance, is 0-5 at the NBC Heads Up Championship and, in my opinion, he is better than me at HU live NL freezeouts.

JS: You’re also well-known for your prop betting. There are rumors around a bet with Phil Hellmuth involving the ocean – some say it was $50k to stand in the ocean up to your shoulders for 18 hours; some say it was $10k to tread water for 24 hours; some say the bet never went down; some say you took it and couldn’t finish it. Set the record straight.
HS: The bet was I would spend 24 hrs in the ocean without touching the bottom for $10k. I lost interest in the idea and paid off the bet.

JS: What are some of your other more fun prop bets (I’ve heard of specifically some fun ones with Ted Forrest) – there’s the “three club golf bet,” “the beard bet,” the one where your brother was going to run from LA to Vegas, and a 50-yard dash against Howard Lederer where you had to hop on one foot. Which, if any, of these are true and accurate, and are there any other fun ones that we don’t know about?
HS: Sorry, but it would take a book to go over all those bets and more...my brother tried to walk to Vegas from L.A. with two sleep sessions only. He walked the first 80 miles, went to sleep, and quit due to a knee injury (how do you hurt a knee walking?). They tried to get me to do it, but I didn’t feel like it, so my brother tried it instead. Sorry to bash you, Leif, but I think I would have done it easy (maybe I’m just jealous you’re such a better runner than me).

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