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Chip Reese: 1951-2007
BY: BOB PAJICH | bob.pajich@cardplayer.com
PUBLISHED: Tuesday Dec 04, 2007 10:47 AM
One of the Greatest High-Stakes Cash Game Players Passes On
Chip ReeseDavid “Chip” Reese, the three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, longtime cash-game star, and member of the Poker Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56.
Card Player has learned that Reese was sent home from the hospital last night and passed away in his sleep. Card Player's original information reported that he died at the hospital.
Reese, the Ohio native who learned to play poker while attending Dartmouth, was a regular in the biggest cash games and was considered the best seven-card stud player in the world. Doyle Brunson held Reese’s play in such high regard that he pegged him to pen the chapter on stud for his book “Super System.”
He affirmed his position as one of the world’s best all-around players in 2006 when he won the $50,000 WSOP H.O.R.S.E. event ($1.8 million). He also won bracelets in 1982 and 1978 ($5,000 limit stud and $1,000 stud split). |
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