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Antonio Esfandiari Interview with Poker News Daily

Poker News Daily: There are a number of sponsorship contracts had in the past, but you are generally known as one of the best players unsigned. What was your mind at ease with Victory Poker? Antonio Esfandiari: Well, there was not really for me. I was several years ago, Ultimate Bet. That was cool, but I’m glad I was not with them when the whole [scandal of fraud were] down. I had had anything to me tun.Dann the World Poker Tour (WPT), because I headed the first and only Guy. I do not want to be on a team with a number of other pros. Such as Full Tilt has a host of professionals and I was not just another type. I was just holding out for another day, and after the victory has arrived and it was a perfect fit. It’s all my friends. Dan [Fleyshman] and I have known for years and he is a businessman, when he told me that I was really interested and here we are. We’ll see where it geht.PND: What do you think is the victory of other poker rooms online poker out there? Esfandiari: Our software is really good, our work is great. The guys in the operations behind them, what they do, so I think we’re going off on this front. We are not trying to be or Full Tilt Poker Stars. We are simply trying to get there and make some kind of shot. I think we must take a certain amount for us than other sites nicht.PND: The page on the lifestyle great poker player. Do you think it is part of the draw? Esfandiari: Sure. My lifestyle is basically living in Las Vegas, nightlife, social beings. Now they just want movies that everyone and create traffic to the site, and I’m OK with that. If you put a camera on my life, go ahead.PND: What kind of things they have filmed so far? Esfandiari: Purpose for us, we bet on everything. Many things to chance. The other day I put a bulletproof vest and was shot with a real weapon. We blew one RV.PND: Let’s Go Back To You shoot. How he came to the end it happened? Esfandiari: “My friend Dan” Flash “Bilzerian, a sponsored pro, and is also a Sicko. At home he had a bulletproof vest on the ground and took a pistol and shot them. I was like: “I can not believe what you just shot into your home. “He’s like,” it’s bulletproof. “I said, ‘Well, if I wear it, it’s just ok? “It is like” Absolutely! “He is a former Navy SEAL, so I’m ready to shoot. I’m like, “Alright.” So I pulled the bullet-proof vest and he asked me geschossen.PND: these are part of a bet or just curious about your side? Esfandiari: I was just curious. I do not always draw, but I said ‘Hey, was can also be shot. “PND: You’ve been playing some high stakes cash Victory at Hard Rock Casino. How are things with you? Esfandiari No , so good. I bestraft.PND: Who were the big winners? Esfandiari: Alan Meltzer and Bob Wright.PND: We have urged other poker professionals win this kind of car she wanted to buy Craig’s List your derby proposed demolition in the desert. Have you tried the car yet? Esfandiari: No, I’ve never actually been on Craig’s List, so I do not even know where to start. I am not very Internet-friendly. I must make a demolition derby before faith with Phil Laak after “I Bet You” though.PND: Note that have an advantage, then come Derby Time? Esfandiari: I think I would do, not what I earn. It Always think positive.

Everybody Settle Down

I did a good job. I am writing about poker. Of course, the money I do not do what many of my classmates to compare MBA probably do now, but I get in a fun industry to work, I went on some great “business” trips, and I can work, home work and not a day the life of my children. When Mr. Mom during the week and more work is tiring, but it is also very interesting.but there are days where I really turned some aspects of my area. In recent times, which will put me on the edge, immaturity and narrow-mindedness of many people in the community of online poker. Since I am on the Internet a lot for my job ( “lot” means any time on), I see the same tired from work each week, most recently in the first week of May Februar.Viele of you have heard of them but there was recently a bizarre incident on the Cake Poker network, delivered in a pot on the wrong player. In $ 0 02 / 0 $. 04 No-Limit Hold’em, the player in the big blind and the player on the button was all-in before the flop, the big blind with KK and the button with AQ. Once all the community cards are dealt, four cards on the board so that the button is the best hand, an ace high flush. Shocking, however, was the player with KK to the pot, if one High King Flush.Natürlich, internet forums (two plus two, even more than that if I blew), once someone posted the hand of history to read. Players must give their accounts to Cake Poker players have claimed the site was compromised, the investigation should begin to withdraw by one third, which should Cake employees. The sky is falling! The sky is falling, I do not know if the average age of the displays of the Internet edge, exaggerated distrust of poker rooms online, or the ease with which a bold proclamations online that you would never do anyone can do, but something causes mass panic and indignation, when a small issue comes to a poker room. He just shook me no end that more people are flying under control than in reality remained calm and thought logisch.Leute when a poker room makes a mistake, this is not a big conspiracy against you. You are not attempting to automatically steal your money. Programmers are not bumbling idiots. My dear countrymen, simply because it “does not at sea,” people who run poker rooms are wild. There are laws in other countries. Other people around the world have moral standards even if in the third world! And just because a computer runs the game does not mean it is impossible to go wrong. “But, but, but, Dan,” you can say, “if a fatal error like this happen again, why should we suppose that it ever happened before? “Well, I think we can not 100% safely assume that it never happened at Cake Poker but given how obvious error was and how fast it was taken, I think it’s safe to figure that something has happened so obvious before, it is she does not go unnoticed. Believe or not, most people notice when they had the best hand and not Topf.Glücklicherweise Cake Poker Card Room Manager Lee Jones (full disclosure: he is a guest columnist here at Poker News Daily), do not panic. He quickly approached the poker community, which confirms that the error occurred, and swore at the bottom of the item and get it. And guess what? The software development team understood what happened, and This event was truly a “once in a billion” type. I will not go into gory details, but basically it was a kind of delay between client and server for a player who causes the game suggest that there is a side pot between the player and the person with KK. The player with KK won this pot, and there were no more chips for the main pot terminated by hand. It was really a hiccup and the error was behoben.Jones has taken a further step in the situation cleared up, though. For their efforts, Cake is the player with AQ $ 500, the person who reported the same problem 250 $, and combined the other players at the table $ 250. In addition, the poker room will be $ 500 for those who find a body announced that Jones future Fehler.Nach all this, there were lots of people in the congratulations he deserves for his professionalism and the cake team handled the situation. But there were also a number of people who want to continue to roll heads, for some reason. They do not understand just not this criterion, no matter how consistently the programmer software, it may cause an unexpected convergence of events that are rare even in an error. In this case, there was really no need for this type dürfen.Es of error even expect people to criticize Lee Jones were, above all, which means he was not sincere and that the money supply was only one way to appease the mob . A person who actually asked who was reading it if it was a bank manager commended for honestly about a disorder that causes the client money to go to someone else account. Uh Yes …. If a bank manager was ahead of what happened the, apologized and assured me that the problem is solved, and gave me a 50-100 times the amount of the transaction, it would be, I praise its virtues hören.Dinge for anyone, sometimes, everybody. Whether a software error, a typo on page one poker room, or a simple misunderstanding, not every little problem that you experience in online poker is big business. If everyone just wants to act reasonable adults, and therefore those who would correct the mistakes, we suffer all of a headache somewhat less, and enjoy the game. And if you’re one of those people who say they do not calm down, then send me your screen name poker so I can sit at the table, put on monkey tilt and watch chips spat in my direction.