In talking further, we found out they were Ira and Ellen Friedman, parents of often flamboyant poker player Perry Friedman, who has worn that red streak in his hair throughout this year's WSOP. How's that for family support?
Perry is bright, articulate, and was valedictorian of his high school class. A top math and science student, Perry was accepted at Harvard, Brown, MIT and Stanford, electing to attend the latter, where he earned both a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Computer Science.
Perry was one of the original employees of Tiltware, which designed the software for Full Tilt Poker. He won a WSOP bracelet in Omaha hi-lo in 2002 and played a number of events at this year's Series, making the final table of Event #28 ($3,000 no-limit hold'em) and ultimately finishing 7th.
Along with Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Perry's in the audience this evening sweating fellow Full Tilt Pro Lee Watkinson.
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. Both players check. The river brings the 
. Garfinkle checks and Kalmar pushes out 1,000,000 chips. Garfinkle folds and Kalmar wins the pot.
, and both players check. The turn card is the 
, Lam bets 700,000, and Hilm calls. There is now 2.54 million in the pot. 
, Lam checks, Hilm thinks for a minute before he bets 1.5 million, and Lam folds, leaving himself with about 18.75 million. Philip Hilm takes the pot.
, and both players check. The turn card is the 
, and both players check. Rahme shows 
for a pair of nines, and Nguyen mucks. Raymond Rahme wins the pot.
