[70611] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Avi Freeman at the WSOP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W.Gilmore)
Thu May 20 15:40:59 2004
In-Reply-To: <20040520144641.A3277@gwyn.tux.org>
Cc: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:34:42 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
