At 24-years-old, less than two years into the start of his full-time professional poker career, Nick Seward is racking up titles, piling up earnings, and making the poker community take notice.
Las Vegas pro Nick Seward posing with one of his two 2024 SHRPO trophies. (photo courtesy: Seminole Hard Rock) Nick Seward is on the move. Both literally, as he packs up his current Las Vegas apartment preparing to upgrade into a new place, and figuratively. That’s because when it comes to the game of poker perhaps no player in the game is seeing their star rise faster than Seward.
Seward, the 24-year-old poker pro hailing from just outside of Washington D.C., is enjoying a red-hot sun run that includes a six-figure score in the 2023 Wynn Summer Classic, his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet this summer, as well as two victories and a third final table at the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. It’s part of an accumulation of more than $1.5 million in tournament earnings – all since recording his first live tournament cash less than two years ago in October 2022. It’s a fast and fortunate start to a poker career, one that had its seeds planted nearly a decade ago.
“[Poker] wasn’t anything more than a hobby, but I just remember playing initially and I was immediately in love with the game,” Seward said. “I’ve always enjoyed strategic games and poker really spoke to me in that regard.”
Seward says he got his start at age 14, playing small-stakes cash games for fun with his high school friends. Over the next few years, he started taking the game more seriously, eventually finding his way to online poker. By his senior year in high school he’d had “some decent success” but any serious thoughts about poker took a backseat as college was on the horizon.
While attending Ohio State University, studying finance, poker began to take more of a hold. He was two years into getting his degree when COVID-19 arrived, and Seward spent a lot more time honing his skills by playing online. He came […]
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