1. David Edward "Chip" Reese was an American professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Ohio.
14 Facts About Chip Reese
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Chip Reese is widely regarded as having been the greatest cash game poker player.
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Chip Reese attended Dartmouth after turning down an offer from Harvard.
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Chip Reese had tremendous success in poker games against students and some of his professors.
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Chip Reese taught his fraternity brothers to play a variety of card games, including bridge as well as many poker variants.
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Chip Reese's first visit to Las Vegas was so financially rewarding and so much fun, that he never left.
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Chip Reese is thought to have hired someone to fly to Arizona to clean out his apartment and drive his car to Las Vegas.
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Chip Reese won the $1,000 Seven Card Stud Split event at the World Series of Poker in 1978, and the $5,000 Seven Card Stud event in 1982.
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Chip Reese decided to concentrate his efforts on cash games, however.
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Chip Reese later became the card room manager at the Dunes casino.
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In 1991, Chip Reese became the youngest living player to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
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Chip Reese died on December 4,2007, at his Las Vegas home.
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Some sources state that Reese died in his sleep from the effects of pneumonia, while friends of Chip, including Barry Greenstein and Doyle Brunson, speculate that his death might have been related to an earlier gastric bypass that caused a blood clot.
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Chip Reese purchased the house with winnings from sports betting in baseball and from an investment in Jack Binion's Tunica casino.