How aggressive play pays.

Mark Seif (pronounced “safe”, though he’s quite dangerous at the tables) is an attorney turned professional poker player who is best known for his ultra-aggressive style of play.  In recent years, he has also evolved into the most popular and prolific poker instructor in the game. 
After law school, Mark worked for a national law firm specializing in Labor and Employment Law.  After just a couple of years with the firm, Mark was appointed General Counsel of America’s largest business leasing company in Lake Tahoe, California where he lived for a few years.  But in the end, despite his rapid-fire success in law, Mark’s yearning for the poker table was too strong.  He quit practicing law in May 2001 to play poker full-time.

Mark Seif has accrued more than $2,500,000 in live tournament winnings – not to mention his high stakes cash game play. Mark is also among only a handful of players to have ever won the PokerStars Sunday Million Tournament twice. He also made the final table of the main event of the World Championship of Online Poker in 2005.  But it was his performance at the 2002 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker final table at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles that catapulted his poker career into celebrity status.  When the first season of the WPT began airing on the Travel Channel in early 2003, he gained widespread public recognition for his poker playing abilities and his table image benefited.
Many poker tournament successes followed, but it was in 2005 that his career and life truly changed. He won two bracelets back to back during that year’s World Series of Poker  – one in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout (winning over $181,000), and the other in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event (winning over $611,000).  A string of huge wins followed in the subsequent years.

Mark lives for poker. If he’s not playing, that means he must be sleeping – and even then you can bet he’s dreaming about it.