Canadian Graduate School Letter Of Intent

"The Magician"
Amir, the name of Antonio Esfandiari at birth, was born in Tehran in Iran on December 8 (no, you're not reading wrong, date of birth of Antonio is in fact known to insiders). His family emigrated to the United States when Anthony was six years to allow him and his brother Pasha to live a better life. Esfandiari's family settled in California in San Jose, and found himself in trouble because her father spoke little or no English, while Antonio and his brother because of young age knew only Farsi, the language spoken in Iran. Antonio's father tried in every way to meet the difficulties of his family and he did his utmost to give her children a good education. Things got complicated When Anthony's mother left his father to return to Iran. However, they lost courage, and can count on the help of his paternal grandmother.

In 2002 Antonio took part in his first tournament of the World Poker Tour in San Francisco, reaching to the final table of the Main Event, calssificandosi in third place and taking home a prize of $ 44,000. The excellent result and his face pierced by all accounts, without a doubt the video, they did become a star of the circuit. In 2004, his greatest success: the first at the LA Poker Classic at the Bicycle Casino with super payout of $ 1,399,135. Not content with the next day, almost without sleep, he took part in the WPT Invitational coming sixth.
Antonio has become a symbol of poker in the world, thanks to the success in collecting the fairer sex, caught by her charm Middle East.

Antonio in 2004 returns to Las Vegas for the WSOP and won the bracelet in Pot Limit Hold'em and remembers how two years in his life as a poker player has changed. Just two years before his bankroll was almost red, but now a player is claimed, and especially winning. The only negative was left in Anthony's life was a reticence that was his father to his life as a poker professional, so one day he decided to take it with you at the table, to make him understand that he was not a sick d 'chance, but a player meticulous and careful. The father remains favorable
impressed when he saw how easily Antonio could read the cards of his opponents to defeat the table.
[SOURCE: www.assopoker.com]