I Love This Mysterious 26 Year Old Millionaire Who Decided To Play The "One Drop" Million Dollar Tournament On A Whim
Poker Central - The realm of the unknown is a difficult place to charter in a field as exclusive as the Big One for One Drop. Matthew Siegal is an avatar for anonymous among the crowd of successful businessmen and top-notch professionals.
The self-described investor hails from New York City and is not a fan of tournaments. He prefers cash games but found a spark of inspiration by watching Super High Roller Bowl.
Siegal says One Drop is one of his first tournaments ever.
“I spontaneously decided I was going to play in this about a week ago,” Siegal claims. “I watched the Super High Roller Bowl as practice for the tournament structure. I watched Nick Schulman and it was great. It was like having a coach.”
The 26-year-old New Yorker is cagey about his overall poker background. Siegal announced the game as a hobby and that he plays high stakes cash games “all over.”
When pressed for details about his day-to-day life, Siegal professed to be a private person.
“I’m down to do more,” Siegal said of his chances to play more High Rollers. “It’s a deep structure and the stakes are high.”
I love guys like Matthew Siegal. There’s always a guy like him in the poker world. Comes out of nowhere, has a ton of money, and decides “hey, you know what I’m gonna do next week, play that million dollar tournament”, and then does it. Nobody knows what his net worth is. It’s impossible to find much at all about him on the Internet. He is 26 years old and calls himself an “investor”. Could mean literally anything. Crypto? Stocks? Oil? Weed?
And the bankroll you need to have to play the One Drop is absurdly high, but there’s no telling if he spent 1% of his money, 10% of his money, or 50% of his money to YOLO and buy in.
To be quite honest, he looked like a boss while playing:
I mean when you’re ponying up a milly to play poker, you better look like you just sold some children on the black market with black tar heroin shoved up their cabooses to pay for your buyin.
Unfortunately for our guy, things didn’t work out the way he wanted them to:
At least he lasted longer than 20 minutes, so that’s a plus.
And he’ll definitely be back. Can’t get the taste of a million dollar tournament and then disappear forever. Have to prove you belong. He’ll definitely be back.