Former NFL star Richard Seymour added another piece of hardware to what must be an already packed man cave full of the stuff by winning his first World Series of Poker Circuit ring at Harrah’s Cherokee.
The three-time Super Bowl champ and 2002 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee took down the $2,200 high roller event and its $106,577 that was generated by 234 entries.
Bradley Butcher was the runner-up ($71,039), an unknown player finished third ($48,676), Johnny Bromberg finished fourth ($34,162), Maxwell Young finished fifth ($24,571), Tanupat Punjarojanakul finished sixth ($18,124), Donovan Dean finished seventh ($13,717), Charlie Dawson finished eight ($10,661), and Christopher Hill rounded out the final table ($8,514).
This is the second-highest cash for Seymour, who is a well-know as a poker aficionado. His top cash came in 2018 in the $25,000 high roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure when he finished third for $376,360, and he made it all the way to the quarterfinals of the $25,000 National Heads-Up Poker Championship just last year, winning $75,000.
The cash in Cherokee pushed his tournament cashes near the $1 million mark.
“Once you’re done playing football you still have a competitive drive,” he said in a 2019 interview with Yahoo Sports. “Poker is an outlet for me where I have a competitive drive, you have to be very cerebral. It requires a lot like it did for me in football – I have to be patient, I have to know how to pick my spots, pay attention to guys’ tendencies. It was just a natural progression after leaving sports at a high level.”
And when says he performed at a high level in the NFL, he’s not blowing smoke. Drafted as the sixth overall pick in 2001, Seymour sealed the edge on New England’s for eight seasons, where he won three Super Bowls. He’s a seven-time Pro-Bowl and a three-time first team All-Pro.
Seymour also authored one of my favorite plays in NFL history in his later years as a Raider when he was ejected from a game for socking Ben Roethlisberger in the mush and sending the him to the turf.
The $2,200 high-roller closed the series at Harrah’s Cherokee that started Feb. 12. The WSOP Circuit is currently running at Horseshoe Baltimore until March 2. The first flights of the $1,700 buy-in Main Event begins tomorrow (Feb. 26).
Tomorrow is also the start two WSOP Circuit series, one at Horseshoe Hammond which runs until March 9, and one overseas at the Grand Casino Gamprin in Liechtenstein. Click here for the full schedule.
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