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I'm sure that anyone that has been a longtime CR member knows of David "Lou PInella" Doerr from the forums. He was a great guy who always loved to chime in with a sarcastic and maybe controversial comment. I always got a kick out of his posts on the forums. You could tell he was one of those people that just loved life.
David or LP as I always called him was one of the first Cardrunners members and I was lucky enough to get to know David over the past few years. He used to follow me around on UB and always needle me from the rail. Of course, his intentions were always good and I always appreciated his interest in my poker success. In those days, we often had exchanges through the CR forum. The forum wasn't so active back then, but you could be sure you'd always see a post from LP. Eventually we began talking over AIM and after the decline of AIM, through email. It was always a pleasure interacting with him.
LP was a HUGE basketball fan. I had many long email exchanges with him discussing up and coming NBA players. He loved watching kids from their early years and followed a lot of high school basketball. I never had much interest in that, but always got a kick out of the long emails that he would send to me that discussed a ton of 13 year old kids I had never heard of. On Tuesday we were talking about the emergence of a 13 year old kid named Andrew Wiggins. As soon as I heard of Wiggins, LP was the first guy I contacted. Of course, David didn't disappoint. He already knew all about him. He also let me know of a few freshman I needed to follow this year in college hoops. These were guys he had already been following for years.
Unfortunately, that was the last time I would talk to David as he was killed in a car accident on Wednesday.
David is survived by his wife Patrice and his son Davis. I can only imagine what they are going through. If David wasn't talking about basketball he was surely talking about his family. Rarely do you come across people as dedicated to their family as he was. I always had great admiration for the way he acted as a father and a husband. Please keep his family in your prayers.
If you knew David and would like to send flowers or attend the memorial service here is the information:
Flowers can be sent through Saturday to:
Acacia Funeral Home
14951 Bothell Way NE
Seattle, WA 98155
202-362-5525
The service is at 11am on Monday:
Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church
7500 Greenwood N. Ave.
Seattle, WA 98103
Life is so fragile and so unfair at times. Cherish the times you have with the people you love, because you never know when it could end.
edit: jtphila posted a link to a great blog post he wrote about LP a few months back. Here's the link:
http://blogs.cardrunners.com/jtphila/lou-pinella-separating-myth-from-reality
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