Erik Seidel recently broke through the million lifetime earnings mark (WPT photo/Joe Giron)

It is pretty easy to talk about Erik Seidel solely using hyperbole. Justified hyperbole, of course, but phrases like “the GOAT”, “the greatest”, or “Seiborg” all are merited to explain his poker career. Seidel recently crossed $30 million in career tournament earnings, putting him second on the all-time money list and reminding us all that though he can be soft-spoken, his results speak loudly and 2016 has been no exception. Since he isn’t one to brag, we decided to take a closer, specific look at his success and do it for him in this edition of Number Crunch.

5 – Number of non-poker show credits for Seidel on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). One is as a poker consultant for the now-defunct ESPN show Tilt. Three others are cameos in poker-related movies. One is a brush with the President-elect on an episode of Celebrity Apprentice. Interestingly, Rounders, where Seidel’s heads-up battle with Johnny Chan in the 1988 WSOP Main Event, was not listed. Nor was Seidel’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it stint as an extra on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

7 – Number of career World Poker Tour final tables for Seidel. He is sixth on the WPT all-time final tables list and fifth on the WPT all-time cash lists with 22. He also has one title, won at Foxwoods in 2008.

16 – Number of years since the New York card club the Mayfair closed its doors. Seidel is one of a number of backgammon and poker players who cut their teeth on the games at the Mayfair. Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to clean up NYC led to the club’s closure in 2000.

53 – Percentage of Seidel’s cashes this year which were in High Roller events. Of the nineteen 2016 cashes, ten are in high rollers. In 2015, 41% of the cashes were High Roller tournaments. In his standout 2011, that rate was 44%. Part of the uptick can be explained by the proliferation of High Roller tournaments, most notably the regular events running at the Aria in Las Vegas. It also indicates Seidel tends to skip most events that do not include a High Roller component somewhere in the tournament series.

60 – Number of six-figure cashes in Erik Seidel’s career. From 1988 to present, he earns a payday of at least $100,000 approximately twice a year. In reality, currently Seidel is making up for some early six-figure dry spells. In 2016 alone he notched ten six-figure cashes with the end-of-year high rollers still coming up on the schedule.

99 – Number of WSOP cashes for Seidel in his 18-year career playing the series. This puts him second on the cashing list behind Phil Hellmuth, who has 118. Eight percent of those cashes are victories, as Seidel is the owner of eight bracelets.

100 – Percent of the time Seidel has been in attendance for his daughter’s events growing up according to his daughters, Jamesin and Elian. During interviews for the Poker Central Pokerography series, his daughters said their fatherl never missed any of their important games or events as kids. He is often cited as an incredibly dedicated father both by his own family and by his poker peers.

76,000 – Approximate number of followers on Twitter of @Erik_Seidel. Ever since Seidel got on Twitter, he established a reputation for being one of those great follows who does not Tweet a lot, but when he does have something to say, it is usually quality.

1,990,476 – Dollars separating Daniel Negreanu and Seidel on the all-time money list. Negreanu took the top spot with his runner-up finish in the 2014 Big One for One Drop at the WSOP. Seidel had claimed the top spot during his historic run in 2011, but had fallen back a bit as Negreanu and Antonio Esfandiari passed him. Esfandiari is just a touch over $3 million in earnings behind Seidel on the all-time list.

6,530,153 – Dollars earned by Seidel during his most successful tournament year, 2011. During a week in 2001, Seidel won over $3 million. First he took third in the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge, then he went on to win the $250,000 Challenge. February brought a $750,000 victory in the NBC Heads-Up Championship. In May, he won a $100,000 buy-in event at Bellagio for another million-dollar payday. The WSOP was a slow one for Seidel, but he finished out the year with back-to-back Epic Poker final tables for one of the most memorable individual runs in recent memory.