Poker Mourns the Loss of Poker Hall of Famer David 'Chip' Reese

[smarta5150]

http://www.pokerpages.com/pokerinfo/hallofame/davidchipreese.htm

 

[cbfan55]

He's bluffing

 

[FloridaRob]

My daughter played cards with him this past summer in Vegas. Good guy and way too young.

 

[Hostile]

My boss had played poker with him twice. He said he was a really nice guy.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

He's bluffing

That is bad, but I won't lie, I did get a little laugh from it.:

 

[smarta5150]

He's bluffing

That is bad, but I won't lie, I did get a little laugh from it.:

I got a little laugh too. See ya in hell brother.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I got a little laugh too. See ya in hell brother.

I got a Pent House reserved...you will have to come visit me.

 

[bbgun]

Former classmates:

Chip Reese, considered by some the greatest poker player ever, died of a heart attack on Tuesday. Chip was a three-time winner of the World Series of Poker, but preferred to play in private high-stakes games. When he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1991 at age 40, he became the youngest inductee ever.

Chip attended Dartmouth with us. He had been a star debater in high school and joined the Dartmouth Forensic Union, where John and I got to know him. I don't remember him debating much at Dartmouth, but he liked to hang around the DFU as a freshman, and we talked a lot about sports and became friends.

I was only vaguely aware of his blossoming campus reputation as a poker player, but I could tell he was a shrewd sports bettor. Early one college football season (probably 1970) he advised me to bet heavily on Ohio State in the Michigan game that would take place many weeks later. Michigan had defeated Ohio State the year before, ending a long OSU winning streak, and was widely considered the nation's best team. Chip told me that his grandfather was a friend of Woody Hayes (Ohio State's legendary coach) and that Hayes been gunning for Michigan since the end of the previous year's upset defeat. Hayes had privately expressed confidence that his Buckeyes would beat the Wolverines. Ohio State won the game, Chip made a ton of money, and I won a few bucks.

Chip must have done very well academically too, because he was admitted to Stanford law school. That summer, though, he visited Las Vegas and parlayed $400 into $66,000. He never made it to Palo Alto.

Years later, I read that Chip had contemplated going to law school in his late 30s, after he had conquered the poker world. On a trip back to Ohio, though, he again turned his back on a law career after talking to several successful lawyers at a party. They all told him he would be crazy to give up his poker career for the law and that, if they could, they would make the reverse move in a heartbeat.

Chip figured out that they weren't bluffing and that he had the winning hand.

 

[Smith22]

I made a thread about this earlier. He seemed like a good guy. He had a solid rep in the poker community and seemed to shy away from the limelight, unlike the up and coming guys in the poker world that can't get enough of the camera.

RIP Chip.