The poker world lost a legend this week. David "Chip" Reese was perhaps the greatest cash game player of all time. In 1974 Chip visited Vegas on his way to begin law school at Stanford, but he quickly found that the old pros were playing 7 card stud all wrong. The $400 he brought with him ballooned to $66,000, and he decided he couldn't afford not to stay.
Because Reese played in relatively few tournaments, he was rarely seen on television even during the recent poker-boom. Instead, he played the biggest cash games in Vegas with minimum stakes exceeding $100,000.
Poker draws a lot of wild personalities, but by all accounts Chip was a mild-mannered, generous, and considerate person who knew the "object of the game." An excellent, if reluctant, ambassador for professional poker.
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