Fri, 08/05/2011 – 23:42 – PokerPages Staff

Multi World Series of Poker winner Huck Seed earned a staggering $670,665 earlier this week after hitting the jackpot playing a game of video poker in California.

Seed, who took down the WSOP $10,000 Main Event in Las Vegas sixteen years ago for a $1 million first prize, revealed the news on social networking site, Twitter. The 42 year-old later attached a picture of his crowning moment alongside the caption, “Internet poker is down in the US. But I’m still pushing buttons!”

It marks a welcome lucky break for a poker pro who struggled to make an impact in the 58 gold bracelet event series this summer. Seed bought into 23 tournaments, at a cost of over $200,000, without managing to ride the money bubble.

Though Seed failed to cash in live tournament play this year, he has still amassed over $5 million during a career which now spans three decades. His most recent victory came in the WSOP $1 Million Tournament of Champions just over twelve months ago. Seed earned $500,000 for that triumph.

His $670,000 success playing video poker would rank as the second biggest score on his resume, trumping the huge sums he earned for his WSOP bracelet wins in $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha, $1,500 Razz and $5,000 Razz events.

Seed will be hoping his ‘royal flush’ winning hand marks a change in fortune as he attempts to bounce back from his woes at the Rio Suite Hotel and Casino and dominate live events once more.

For a recap of all the results from the 2011 World Series of Poker visit the PokerPages Tournament Database.