On life, death, and the finality of it all.
This was a co-worker of mine at PokerStars.
Alvin Arevalo was an American from California in my training class with me in Costa Rica when we took poker specialist / customer support jobs for PokerStars. He was a fun-loving guy, one who loved the outdoors, watched his diet (didn't eat too many carbs, I remember), and really took to the zipline canopy tours over the rainforest with Randy (another co-worker) and I. We talked about the glory days of PartyPoker, what we'd do if we were offered permanent positions in San Jose, Costa Rica (he eventually accepted one), and stayed in touch even after I left the company.
It seems like it wasn't that long ago that we were hiking up the mountains in Costa Rica with our supervisors and other co-workers, happy to be working for such a great company with lots of interesting people.
I've been told that the news article is both inaccurate and flat-out wrong in a few places, and that the story is a lot more devious with premeditation involved, but there's no real reason to expound on that.
Rest in peace, Alvin.
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#1. ANNIE, 11 months and 3 days ago
i will be attending his funeral tomorrow.
any chance you could fwd [copy/paste] the newspaper story on this? Thanks for your empathy.
#2. Frank, 10 months and 23 days ago
I am saddened to find out about this. Alvin was a kind brother in college. My best wishes go to the one's that loved him.
mbk always.
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