World Series of Poker Legend Dies

This week, we had to say goodbye to David "Chip" Reese.

You may not know the name immediately but you'd recognize him immediately if you saw him as a star who anchored one of the biggest cash games in the world and won three World Series of Poker bracelets. Reese passed away in his sleep and was only 56-years old and had been suffering from pneumonia symptoms for about a week.

Considered one of the best poker players in the world, Reese had initially been a student at Dartmouth College and wound up in Las Vegas on a whim and found he had a talent for playing poker like none other and wound up staying and making poker his profession.

Despite winning three World Series bracelets over the last four decades, including a $1.8 million HORSE event in 2005 that combines five poker disciplines, Reese focused his attention on high-stakes cash games away from the limelight. Reese was part of a generation of players in the 1970s that challenged established greats like Brunson, Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston Jr. and Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson.

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