Ali Eslami

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Ali Eslami is a professional poker player currently residing in Los Angeles area.

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 in July of 2007 to participate in a competition against Polaris, the University of Alberta poker bot. The matches consisted of 500 hands with 4 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 4 matches and an additional 2,500$ for drawing in a third.

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