Anyone seen this new movie War Pigs with Jonah Hill playing the part of Efraim Diveroli? Anyone remember playing with this kid at 2-5 and 5-10 NL hold'em games in South Florida circa 2007-2010?

Guy was SUCH A whale. Kid would come in, get loaded and just burn THOUSANDS and be like yeah this doesn't touch me and have his brother go get the Porsche.

I always liked this kid. I Did the biggest double take ever when he said name was Efraim Diveroli in the movie. Hadn't seen any previews. Pretty cool seems like only yesterday kid had the world by the balls

I used to play with him at mardi gras in hollywood, fl a lot. Pretty sure Gulfstream and Seminole as well. Been a long time.

The games were still $100 max buyin. So everyone would go all in preflop until whole table wsop sitting on monster stacks... he rarely let off the gas even after he got a big stack. Games were nuts. I don't think i can give a fair assessment of proper strategy at a $100 max buyin game with a 20 year old kid who just made a few million dollars overnight

I remember playing him like it was yesterday. We had some epic hands against each other over many hours of play. ONe time he got dealt KK when I had AA, sure enough I won all his chips.

"You cant touch me he said" --- then his brother went to get his porsche and he left like it was no big deal. What an amazing porsche it was, nice and I believe the color was red, one of the newer released models at the time, thats for sure. Sounds like you have had a similar encounter OP?

OP go sleepies now

was 2/5 & 5/10 ever @ $100 max ? like, ever?

Wow, that man is so epic, i remember one time he and I were allin preflop blind, he then threw the keys to his Porsche in the middle as a "spice" to whoever wins the pot. Sadly I did not win that time as his 9To beat my 44. Then his brother retrieved the keys from the huge pile of chips, they ignored the chips and left, said it was tip to the dealers I believe, pretty sure because I did not get my money back.

ya

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/05/florida-legislature-passes-bill-uncapped-no-limit-poker-6539.htm

I remember playing him heads up at 25/50 and I had quads on the river with a possible royal flush. We put in like 5 raises until all the money was in but then he ran outside, got in his porshce and literally drove into the casino and bet it forcing me to fold. What a guy!

Lol I think you guys are kidding but I can't be the only one who knows him. While casino knew this guy. He would dump thousands a day

more stories about his brother going to get the porsche please

I remember when you were only allowed to bet Porsches in South Florida and the cops came and busted up our game because we had chips on the table. All of a sudden his brother drives the Porsche in and up onto the table and Efraim says, "Nothing to see here officers," then the cops smiled, winked and I'm pretty sure high-fived before leaving.

Seems like only three years ago that I was playing 4-max NLHE 5/10 $80 max buy in down the Maximo Casiiine in North Dakota with this kid. I got stacks in by the river but ended up having to fold when his brother ladled beetroot soup over the chips in the middle.
When his brother gets the borscht out it's game over.

His brother is currently sat on my porch.

You should go back to trolling Trooper in LVL because you obviously know nothing about Florida's poker history.

All this talk of Porsches. Sven will be happy.

Who here has played JONAHS WHALE

I know him & his Bro...

I used play the ol 25/50, $50 max buy, no limit game with him.... Man we used to gamble it up. I remember one time, we were playing HU deep & got 4 buys in All In pre flop.. obv I had the Aces & they held. I was feeling so bad about stacking this kid as he'd played GTO all night... He challenged me to a rematch, long story short, we ended up getting cars in the middle & he drew out... His brother collected my Porsche & the rest is history..

Hope I don't jinx it, but this thread has serious potential

I played a pot with him in a largish game a few years ago. I 3bet pre and he called blind out of the bb flopped 2pair and stacked off against my turned overset. It was like an 8k pot and afterwards he said something like no one could touch him and I didn't really respond because I thought he told me not to touch him which was weird because 1. wtf and 2. we were on opposite sides of the table. 20 minutes later someone else won a pot off him and he looked at me and said steve get the porsche I said my name is bill and then he walked off.

none of this really made sense to me until i read this thread, so thank you op

I saw Efraim Diveroli at a grocery store in South Florida in 2009. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

Anyway, before she could ring up the total, the Porsche plowed through the front door and collected his brother.

It was 2008, the 25-50 rock straddle no limit, $125 max game ran daily, and so did the run bad for me.

The Seminole Hardrock had a bar at the time right next to the game, a perfect place to break and reevaluate. Was it run bad? Did I lose my edge? Should I switch to the 4 max $175 max. The favorite answer at the time was "I'll have another."

"Eliad" a man extending his hand said.

"Max."

"You look like you are down, and I'll tell you one thing that helped me here." The man said as he leaned in.
"Brother or sister. Win or lose. Seminole or Hollywood. The time will come to go and get the porsche. and you know what?" as he leaned in further,
"You always go and get the porsche."

"BROTHER" a man exclaimed for the rock straddle game "GET THE PORSCHE"

The man at the bar held eye contact with me, asked the bartender for the porsche keys, and went to the self park.

From that day on, I became a pro.

After the government gravy train stopped his gambling got him into a deep hole but luckily his brother arrived with a torch.

This particular instance with Efraim Diveroli took place in South Florida in the summer of 2009. We had been playing at the same 5/10 table for a few hours when i specifically remember him ordering a club sandwich. After getting the sandwhich he left the table to go to the bathroom. While he was away I put not one, but two pieces of dog **** (that i always carry with me) on his sandwich. Upon his return to the table i encouraged him to try the sandwich and tell me how it was. And as sure as i'm writing this, he did, he ate it all.....A **** SANDWICH! LOL


And that's not even the best part.

If i'm being honest , I've never even met Efraim Diveroli. I was the one who ate the dog **** sandwich.

Well, the guy is kinda well known in West Palm Beach's games, FL.

We were playing the double straddle 15$/30$ NL 135$ max buy-in at Kennel Club with some buddies when the kid irrupted in the cardroom shouting : "WHERE'S MY PORSCHE NOW ?".

We all looked at each other, nobody understanding what the guy was talking about but then OMC at my table started laughing and showed us the car keys behind his pile of chips.
He actually won them legit in the past night's game and Efraim Diveroli probably went here to get them back.

He then started to play the nittiest game I've ever seen but ran like **** when his T7o didn't held on Q65 flop against my 32s. At this point, he said something like : "Don't even touch me, peasant, you stink !"

He kept running very bad and OMC still got the keys so Jonah Hill's brother decided it was too late and they had to go so Efraim, Jonah, Jonah's brother, OMC and I all went in the Porsche and flew away from the casino.

Lol, joins in 2016 and knows it all.

I played with him a long time ago. He was a really interesting fellow. This one hand we played, I had AA and raised 10 bb's preflop cause i was afraid to see a flop. He pounded the table and yelled BRUNSON, re-raised me for the rest of my stack and then lit a cigarette with a lighter that looked like a gun. I tanked. He tabled 10 2 while i was tanking. I grew concerned that something fishy was happening so i kept tanking. Finally after a few minutes i decided to call. The board came 10 10 10 2 2. He scooped $10 dollars in chips, bought a Dr. Pepper and told the dealer to keep the rest as a tip. Then he flipped his keys to his brother and told him to bring the Porsche around. His brother came back in 5 minutes later in hysterics. He said Jonah Hill ate the Porsche.

I played with him many years ago.

The entire table went aipf. I ended up winning that pot with my trup queens.

Then a cute blonde at the table said she was completely broke and asked him if he would give her $100 if she would paint his porch.

He laughed and said sure! He then gave her his address and said 'You'll find the paint and stuff you need in the garage.'

About 45 minutes later, the blonde returned to the table and said 'I'm all done.'

The man was amazed. You painted the whole porch?'

'Yeah,' the blonde said. 'I even had some left, so I put on two coats!'

He reached into his wallet to pay her.

'And by the way,' said the blonde, 'that's not a Porsche. It's a Ferrari.'