Avi Freeman is at the final two tables of the $5000 Pot-Limit Omaha event at the World Series of Poker: http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result8742.htm Pre-congratulations to Avi on making it that far in one of the toughest events against one of the toughest fields of the WSOP.
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 event at the World Series of Poker:
http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result8742.htm
Pre-congratulations to Avi on making it that far in one of the toughest events against one of the toughest fields of the WSOP.
Minor correction: Freedman OT notes: Many of your fellow network engineers play poker, and, having sat at a table with Avi and some other Akamai folks, I wouldn't want to meet them 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. :-) Tim
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 event at the World Series of Poker:
http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result8742.htm
Pre-congratulations to Avi on making it that far in one of the toughest events 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, having sat at a table with Avi and some other Akamai folks, I wouldn't want to meet them 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
"Patrick W.Gilmore" wrote:
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.
I guess he's done slightly better than that ;-). Place Name Prize 5 Avi Freeman(sic) (Philadelphia, PA) $90,000 *Don't* get suckered in to playing with him if he makes it to SF ;-) -- Rodney Joffe CenterGate Research Group, LLC. http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(R)
--On Friday, May 21, 2004 6:50 PM -0700 Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com> wrote:
I guess he's done slightly better than that ;-). Place Name Prize 5 Avi Freeman(sic) (Philadelphia, PA) $90,000
August 17th, 10PM on ESPN. Having watched most of the final table until Avi busted out, I'm really looking forward to seeing the hole cards :)
Does anyone know if this "episode" will contain an interview or anything with Avi? IIRC, it's typical of WSOP to show a brief interview with the players that make it to the final table. I want to see the glazed-over look from the WSOP announcers when they read his bio. ("ache-a-me - it sounds like some sort of pain relief medication...") Congrats on your win Avi! I know a lot of Tivo's will be busy on 8/17. Maybe when he has some free time he can grace us (or inet-access) with some stories. God I hope he didn't lose to Phil Helmuth (sp?) :) On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:34, John Payne wrote:
--On Friday, May 21, 2004 6:50 PM -0700 Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com> wrote:
I guess he's done slightly better than that ;-). Place Name Prize 5 Avi Freeman(sic) (Philadelphia, PA) $90,000
August 17th, 10PM on ESPN. Having watched most of the final table until Avi busted out, I'm really looking forward to seeing the hole cards :)
This may also be off-topic, but what's with the rumours I heard of Avi being kicked out of the conference? I'm certain there must be more to the story than that, but since Avi has been such a strong positive influence on the NANOG community for so long, I gotta ask.... -- J.D. Falk "be crazy dumbsaint of the mind" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> -- Jack Kerouac
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