[citation needed] Seed was an electrical engineering student at California Institute of Technology and a member of Fleming House.

[4] He made the final table of the 1999 WSOP main event, but was eliminated in sixth place by eventual champion Noel Furlong.

[7] Seed won the 2009 NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship,[8] where he took the top prize of $500,000 and improved his overall record in the event to 18–4, an all-time best for win total.

He once made a $10,000 proposition bet with Phil Hellmuth and Konstantin Othmer that he could float in the ocean for 24 hours without touching the bottom.

[16] Seed once took a six-figure bet that he could break 100 on a desert golf course four times in a day using just a five iron, sand wedge, and putter.