Mickey Seagle “Mickey“

Birthplace
Marion, NC

Hometown
Las Vegas, NV

Total Winnings
$108,875

Mickey Seagle is not a professional poker player, but he's a familiar face on the World Poker Tour. He was born in North Carolina, but he now calls Las Vegas home. He is a retired sales manager for Universal Technical Institute, which trains people to work on cars, motorcycles and boats. Now, Seagle owns and bets on race horses, travels and plays poker.

Seagle says he started playing poker when he was 12 years old. He says he played with some of the best gamblers in McDowell County, North Carolina in a bootleg club where they sold beer, whiskey and played poker. All three things were against the law back then in that part of North Carolina, and the club down by the river often attracted some shady characters. Seagle says he did very well playing poker there, though. Back then, he played mostly limit games. When he got married and he and his wife started their family, Seagle says he stopped playing and started working. He didn't play poker again until after he retired.

Seagle made his first big tournament cashes playing limit games. In 1997, he made the final table of a Limit 7 Card Stud event at the World Series of Poker. The next year, Seagle placed second in a Limit Hold 'em event at the World Series, taking home more than $102,000. Seagle has been playing World Poker Tour events since Season One. He made the final table of a Limit 7 Card Stud event at the Five-Star World Poker Classic. In the WPT's second season, Seagle final tabled a No Limit Hold 'em event at the Borgata Poker Open. That was really his first big shot at No Limit events, and since then, he's cashed in several more WPT No Limit tournaments. Now that he's retired, Seagle says he's doing what he's wanted to do his whole life by playing in big poker tournaments. Even though his wife doesn't like gambling, she loves to travel, and Seagle takes her with him as he travels the world, living a dream.