RIP Amir
Like most of the poker world, we were saddened to see the loss of one of the genuine poker ‘characters’ in Mr Amir Vahedi last week.
If you can’t quite place Vahedi, he’s the Iranian fella with the big cigar that made the 2003 WSOP ME table entertaining to watch. Interestingly Vahedi also won a bracelet that year in one of the side events and went on to win many others in recent times, with reported career earnings of over $3 million.
Vahedi served in the Iranian army before settling in the United States as a political refugee. He’d playing the US circuit for over a decade and was one of the most well known and much loved pro’s out there. Many of the Poker World’s biggest names have been paying their repsects to Amir in the last few days, be it on their twitter pages, blogs or press releases after it was announced at the weekend that Vahedi had passed away on January 8th to a Diabetes related condition.
In a time when poker seems to be lacking genuinely entertaining characters it’s a shame that one of the real good guys has left us, but we’re sure that there’s quite a cash game goin on up there now; and that Chip, Stu and all the rest will be glad of Amir’s presence. Our condolences to the Vahedi family as poker mourns a well loved figure.
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