Hometown: Lyngden, Norway
Chip Count: 127,500
It��s been a massive month for Norwegian poker after 19-year-old Annette Obrestad won the 2007 WSOP Europe main event. Seval H?geland is hoping to follow in her footsteps with victory in the APPT Seoul main event. A native of Lyngden in southern Norway, the father of two qualified for his trip to South Korea via a $1 buy-in tournament on PokerStars for Nordic players, outlasting a massive field of more than 800 players. The 40-year-old bricklayer has been a lifelong poker player, and first picked up Texas Hold��em about four years ago. He��s hoping to use the experience he gained in last year��s PokerStars EPT event in Barcelona to steer him to victory in Seoul.