Player Profile on Freddy Deeb
Category: Poker Pro Profiles
Freddy Deeb was born in Lebanon on November 27th 1955 and his lived in America since his late teens. Deeb was pretty much forced into gambling when, upon war breaking out in Lebanon, he lost touch with his family there who were sending him money so that he could further his education. Without being able to gain employment due to his visa situation, he decided to play poker to try and win the money instead, although he did not quite manage this feat, freddy learned the basics of a game which would go on to earn him an extremely prestigious bracelet and 1st place prize money at the World Series many years later. 11 years before his second bracelet, Freddy had won his first in 1996 at the 2-7 draw $5,000 event and has had two impressive finishes in the main event too, with 17th and 13th place.
Added to this Freddy has a WPT event title in the Ultimate Poker Classic event and a great many good plays and pots in televised cash games. All this though did not compare to his excellent triumph at the 2007 World Series when he won the coveted $50,000 buy in H.O.R.S.E event, in which he defeated the finest players in the world to take the bracelet and over $2.2 million for first place. Freddy resides in Las Vegas with his family these days and will surely be inspired by his performance at last years World Series hopefully going on to gain more bracelets, final tables, and additions, to his already accumulated $5.8 million in recorded tournament earnings.