Huck Seed

Huckleberry Seed (born January 15, 1969 in Santa Clara, California) is an American professional poker player best known for winning the main event of the 1996 World Series of Poker. Seed grew up in Corvallis, Montana, where he attended Corvallis High School. He was a member of the 1987 Montana All-State basketball team. Huck Seed was an electrical engineering student at California Institute of Technology and a member of Fleming House. He took a leave of absence in 1989, started playing poker, and never returned to college. Seed was a star player on Caltech's basketball team and is featured in the 2006 documentary Quantum Hoops. Seed won the 1996 World Series of Poker main event, his second bracelet, and the $1,000,000 first prize. He...