Erik Seidel Wins Heads-Up Poker Championship

Erik Seidel, the hottest player in no-limit hold'em at the moment, won the NBC National Head-Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas. He defeated Chris Moneymaker in the finals in a best of 3 match. Seidel has already won $4.3 million in 2011 and it is still only March! Most poker players would dream of making that amount of money in their entire career. It is simply an amazing feat.

I will get on my soapbox one more time about this old players versus young players argument that just never seems to go away. See my earlier post pertaining to the subject. I will simply say here that Erik Seidel is 51 years old and is currently obliterating everyone in his path. Also, I don't consider 51 old by any means. Maybe that was old several decades ago, but not in 2011.Chalk ANOTHER one up for the "old" guys. Congratulations Erik!