Ali Eslami is a business strategist and renowned high-stakes poker primarily focused on limit mix-games.
Eslami is one of the first two people to win the Man-Machine Poker Competition.
He represented the United States on the U.S. Poker team in the IFP's Nation's Cup inaugural event.
Since Eslami's appearance at the Legends of Poker WPT Season 2 in 2003, he has gone on to pocket over $200,000 with over 14 cash showings in tournament play. Eslami is primarily a cash game player, however, playing chiefly in high-limit poker games in Los Angeles.
In June 2007, Ali Eslami took 5th in the
2007 World Series of Poker, $2,500
H.O.R.S.E event.
Following his showing in the 2007 WSOP event, Eslami appeared alongside fellow professional poker player
Phil Laak
Philip Courtney Laak (born September 8, 1972) is an Irish–American professional poker player and a poker commentator, now residing in Los Angeles, California. Laak holds a World Poker Tour (WPT) title, a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, a ...
in July 2007 to participate in a competition against
Polaris
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, the
University of Alberta
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poker bot. The matches consisted of 500 hands with four matches total and 16 hours of cumulative play, in
Texas Hold'Em poker. Eslami and Laak split the $10,000 prize for defeating the bot in two of the four matches and an additional $2,500 for drawing in a third.
In November 2011 Eslami represented the United States as part of the U.S. Poker Team in the
International Federation of Poker
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References
Sources
*Dan Glaister.
Chips are down as man beats poker machine, The Guardian, Friday July 27, 2007.
Polaris drawing professionals to a stand-still, University of Alberta: Express News, July 20, 2007.
*Ryan Smith.
, University of Alberta: Express News, August 9, 2006.
*R. Colin Johnson.
Humans deal computer a loss in poker challenge, EETimes, July 26, 2007.
*Martin Harris.
, Poker News, July 22, 2007.
*David Staples. "Poker pros out of luck in battle with 'bot", The Edmonton Journal, June 11, 2007, p. A2.
*Chris Ayres.
How to beat a computer: lies, bluffing and taking risks are all on the cards, The Times Online, July 27, 2007.
PokerPages.Com
Official 2007 World Series of Poker results and schedule WorldSeriesOfPoker.Com
IFP’s Nations’ Cup Draws Top Players, Strong Teams For Inaugural Competition
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American poker players
American people of Iranian descent
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)