Talking H.O.R.S.E. and Basketball with Huck Seed
We got a chance to catch up with 1996 World Series of Poker Main Event Winner Huck Seed earlier who was on break in Event #27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. ?We asked Seed a little bit about the H.O.R.S.E. tournament, and a little bit about basketball as well. When we saw Seed, he was talking with John Hennigan about a recent bad streak.
��Let me ask you something,�� Hennigan said to us. ��Do you think a good player can play 30 tournaments and not cash?��
Hennigan was poking fun at Seed for his recent luck in the World Series of Poker.
We asked Seed what his least favorite part of the H.O.R.S.E. event was. ��The amount of the buy-in,�� Seed joked.
That was not the answer we were looking for, so we asked Seed what his least favorite game was in the H.O.R.S.E. structure. ��It's like if you had five children,�� Seed said to us. ��You can't say you love any one less than the others.��
We asked Seed what game he thought people playing the tournament were the worst at. ��Probably stud, razz, or 8-or-better,�� he replied.
We followed up by asking Huck if he thought he was better at poker or basketball right now. ��I'm pretty worn out from playing tournaments all the time right now,�� Seed said. ��But I've been trying to play basketball for a while now. I just haven't had time. Probably at midnight after this gets out, I can go play some. The best scenario would be if someone at my table challenged me to a one-on-one match for some money.
��Vanessa Rousso has this really nice outdoor court that I love to play at,�� he continued. ��It has this matting that has some really nice grip. I'm gonna go out and get some shots on her court later. It's my new favorite outdoor court.��
Following up on that, we asked Huck about some players and whether he'd rather play H.O.R.S.E. basketball or H.O.R.S.E. poker against them.
Jason Mercier: ��Basketball.��
Chad Brown: ��Basketball.��
Phil Hellmuth: ��Basketball.��
Olivier Busquet, ��Olivier actually challenged me to a one-on-one match, we just never got around to it. I think I'd actually rather play him in H.O.R.S.E poker because he doesn't play limit games. There's not many people who could beat me at shooting right now. Another guy I��d probably rather play in poker is Prahlad Friedman. Prahlad played Paul Pierce in a game of H.O.R.S.E once and he beat him.��
We'll have to catch up with "Spirit Rock" later on in the series when we see him to verify this one, but if it's true, it's a pretty awesome story.
