{"id":183,"date":"2007-12-05T04:48:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T09:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/general\/farewell-chip-reese-poker-legend.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:21:53","slug":"farewell-chip-reese-poker-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/farewell-chip-reese-poker-legend.html","title":{"rendered":"Farewell &quot;Chip&quot; Reese, poker legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/chipreece.jpg\" title=\"chipreece.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/chipreece.jpg\" title=\"chipreece.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/chipreece.jpg\" alt=\"chipreece.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Simon Young<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are good poker players, great players &#8211; and legendary players. The latter group does not contain that many names, and sadly today there is one less after the death of David &#8220;Chip&#8221; Reese. He was 56.<\/p>\n<p>A  quite brilliant cash game player, Reese was also a genius at the tournament tables, picking up three WSOP bracelets, including the coveted 2006 $50,000 HORSE event with it&#8217;s stunning $1.8 million first prize. The mark of quality is reflected in the fact that his first recorded big tournament win was also in the WSOP &#8211; way back in 1978 when he picked up the $1,000 Seven-Card Stud Split for a more modest $19,200.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as this summer I enjoyed watching Reese playing in the WSOP Main Event while I was working in Las Vegas. His tournament never really got going that day, but the respect that other players at the table gave him was obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Reese, an amiable American, had been suffering recently from the symptoms of pneumonia and died in his sleep. Recently divorced from his wife, he leaves a son, a daughter, a stepdaughter and many friends.<\/p>\n<p>One of his best friends over the years was fellow poker legend Doyle Brunson. He said: &#8220;I knew him for 35 years , I never saw him get mad or raise his voice. He had the most even disposition of anyone I&#8217;ve ever met.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doyle added: &#8220;He&#8217;s certainly the best poker player that ever lived.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coming from Doyle, that is the greatest compliment Reese could have been paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Simon Young There are good poker players, great players &#8211; and legendary players. The latter group does not contain that many names, and sadly today there is one less after the death of David &#8220;Chip&#8221; Reese. He was 56. A quite brilliant cash game player, Reese was also a genius at the tournament tables,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/farewell-chip-reese-poker-legend.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[128,131,149,227],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77591,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/77591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}