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Chip Reese
David Edward “Chip” Reese is one of the many veterans in
the poker world and one of the many that has yet to win the coveted World
Series of Poker main event bracelet, but that all matters very little to the
high class player. He was not a man who
sought poker as a profession, wanting instead to lead a life of comfort
following college. Born March 28, 1951,
Reese was a football player while in college and gave serious consideration to
becoming a professional. This was not to
be as he took a short vacation to Las
Vegas in 1974.
During this trip he would win over sixty thousand dollars and he was
instantly hooked. Leaving everything
else behind he turned to professional poker full time and has never left the
game. To help fill the void between
wins, Reese took a job as the card room manager of the Dunes casino. This job would serve him well as he took the
chance to watch some of the greatest players to ever live in their element and
he used the knowledge in the many tournaments that he would enter.
At
this point Reese is the proud owner of two World Series of Poker bracelets in
the lower events and has finished as high as twenty-third in the main
event. Over the years he has had eleven
money finishes in the main event and has also joined the ranks of the World
Poker Tour with many finishes in the money and one final table appearance. In
1991 at the age of forty he became the youngest player ever to be inducted into
the Poker Hall of Fame.
While
Reese continues to be a mighty force in the poker world he does not play in
tournaments anymore. He has found that
there is more money and better opportunities in the many high stakes cash games
around Las Vegas so he has decided to concentrate his efforts there. He does say that he will enter the World
Series of Poker main event until he finally wins the top honor.
Reese is also a writer who has worked with Doyle Brunson on his famous Super
System series of poker instruction books.
Today at age fifty-five you can still find Reese in one of the many
casinos winning the big pots and making the best of all the play that there is
to be had.
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