I bet PR is a pain in the ass playing poker too. Always trying to convince other players that his high card beats a flush. Im sure casinos love it when he plays blackjack though. Doubles down regardless of the hand he has.
I don't know how to play poker, but my poker stories easily beat a flush. I haven't played blackjack for 40 years. My good college buddy, Chip Reese, who came to my wedding reception and bought a house on the lake (as did his good buddy Doyle Brunson), was good at poker. Too bad Chip died early. Through Chip I met about 20 or so of the top players of the time, including Amarillo Slim, Johnny Chan, and Doyle. I knew Doyle well. Chip and Doyle were great friends with Jack Binion. I knew Jack too. Doyle died a year or so ago too. Great guy. I met the Binion mom, daughter and son (the one who was killed) at our New Year's Eve dinnerr at the Diamond Horseshoe.]
"He [Chip] is widely regarded as having been the greatest
cash game poker player."
"Reese attended
Dartmouth after turning down an offer from
Harvard. At Dartmouth, he became a member of
Beta Theta Pi fraternity, played freshman football briefly, participated in debate, and majored in
economics." [I was in Beta too. Our frat was good at cards.]
"At the
2006 World Series of Poker, Reese won the inaugural $50,000
H.O.R.S.E. event, taking home the $1,716,000 first prize when his
A♣ Q♣ held up against
Andy Bloch's
9♣ 8♠ in the final hand, on a board of
J♠ 7♣ 7♠ 4♥ 4♠. This event was notable for having the largest buy-in (at the time) in WSOP history, as well as the longest heads-up battle with Reese and Bloch playing for seven hours and 286 hands."
[Chip died a year later.]
[It was fun to hang out with Chip at the lake and Bigfork, and in Las Vegas. I used to see him in LV a time or two a year. He would get his poker buddies to let me sit with him at the table, saying that I didn't even know how to play. I sat at game with Gabrielle Kaplan. Another with Carl Icahn. And some of the then-big name. I represented a company with 15 or so of his gambling buddies, mostly big names. His former wife, Naralene, who was from Butte, lives in Bigfork, I believe.]
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