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Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP
From: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:34:42 -0400
On May 20, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Timothy Brown wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:12:04PM -0400, irv () panix com wrote:Avi Freeman is at the final two tables of the $5000 Pot-Limit Omaha eventat the World Series of Poker: http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result8742.htmPre-congratulations to Avi on making it that far in one of the toughestevents against one of the toughest fields of the WSOP.Minor correction: Freedman
He made the money, but has to go back at 2 PM (PST) for the final round. This is pretty impressive given that 1) He has had about 4 hours sleep (on an airplane) in the 48 before the tournament and B) Avi only paid $5K, no rebuys, no add ons. The top player had to buy more chips multiple times. Right now Avi is guaranteed a $10K profit no matter what. Some of the other people are not guaranteed a profit unless they make it to the top 5 or so.
Funny stories about his tournament play: During the 1 hour dinner break, Avi wen to play a cash game instead of eating. :) And this morning, he spent a couple hours on his computer fixing his personal server instead of sleeping some more. (Worse, he had to do it over a modem!)
OT notes: Many of your fellow network engineers play poker, and, havingsat at a table with Avi and some other Akamai folks, I wouldn't want to meetthem at WSOP with a lower chip count ;) PS - If you are interested in the Texas Reunion in SF, drop me a line. This is not for people from Texas. :-)
I am soooooooo in. -- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP irv (May 20)
- Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP Timothy Brown (May 20)
- Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP Patrick W . Gilmore (May 20)
- Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP Rodney Joffe (May 21)
- Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP John Payne (May 24)
- Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP Adam Maloney (May 24)
- Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP J.D. Falk (May 25)
- Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP Patrick W . Gilmore (May 20)
- Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP Timothy Brown (May 20)