1. Tom McEvoy is best known for winning the 1983 World Series of Poker Main Event.
13 Facts About Tom McEvoy
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Tom McEvoy was an accountant, but after he was laid off from his job, he took up poker full-time in 1978.
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Tom McEvoy first learned to play poker when he was five years old and would regularly get in trouble for playing it in grade school.
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Tom McEvoy won his first WSOP bracelets the following year winning the $1,000 Limit Hold'em event, defeating Irish professional poker player Donnacha O'Dea heads-up to win the tournament, and later winning the 1983 WSOP Main Event.
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Tom McEvoy was the first Main Event winner to earn his buy-in through a single table satellite tournament.
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Tom McEvoy won the Razz tournament in 1986, defeating Alma McClelland, and a Limit Omaha tournament in 1992, defeating 1986 WSOP Main Event champion Berry Johnston.
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In March 2005, Tom McEvoy won the third ever Professional Poker Tour event beating a field of pros-only at the Bay 101 casino.
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Tom McEvoy defeated a final table that included fellow WSOP bracelet winners, Toto Leonidas and Hoyt Corkins.
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Tom McEvoy is staunchly opposed to smoking and in 1998, he helped organize the first tournament where smoking was not allowed.
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In 2002, Tom McEvoy convinced Becky Binion Behnen to make the WSOP a non-smoking tournament in exchange for giving her son, Benny Behnen, poker lessons.
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Tom McEvoy is a former columnist for CardPlayer Magazine and was a Team Pro representative at PokerStars.
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On May 31,2009, Tom McEvoy won the WSOP's first and only Champions Invitational, outlasting 19 other former Main Event champions.
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Tom McEvoy defeated 2002 world champion, Robert Varkonyi in heads-up play to win the tournament.