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Chip Reese Dies At 56
David Edward “Chip” Reese (born March 28, 1951, died December 4, 2007)
was an American professional gambler from Centerville, Ohio.
He suffered from rheumatic fever during his elementary years at school
and had to stay at home for almost a year. During this time, his
mother taught him how to play several board and card games and Reese
later described himself as “a product of that year.” By the age of
six, he was regularly beating fifth-graders at poker. At high school
he was a football player and appeared in the national finals of
debating.[1]
He attended Dartmouth College, after turning down an offer at Harvard
University. At Dartmouth, he played freshman football briefly,
participated in debate and majored in economics. He also had
tremendous success in poker games against students and some of his
professors. He taught his fraternity brothers at the Beta house to
play a variety of card games, including bridge and FYB. His
fraternity’s card room was later named the “David E. Reese Memorial
Card Room”. He was admitted to Stanford Business School, but decided
instead to play poker professionally after winning $40,000 in a
tournament in Las Vegas. By the time he would have started at
Stanford, he had made $100,000.[2] His first visit to Las Vegas was so
financially rewarding and so much fun that he literally never left–
calling several days later to quit his day job in Arizona and later
hiring someone to fly to Arizona to clean out his apartment and drive
his car to Las Vegas.
Shortly afterwards, Reese wrote the seven-card stud section for Doyle
Brunson’s Super System, the best-selling poker book of all time. In
it, Brunson describes Reese as “one of the two finest young … poker
players in the world” and the best seven-card stud player he had ever
played.[3] He won the $1000 Seven Card Stud Split event at the World
Series of Poker in 1978, and the $5000 Seven Card Stud tournament
there in 1982. His tournament results may seem modest, but he has
decided to concentrate his efforts on cash games instead. He has been
named in various gamblers’ magazines as the best all-around gambler in
the world, being proficient not only at all games of poker but also in
games like gin and backgammon.
He later became the card room manager at the Dunes casino. In 1991, he
became the youngest living player to be inducted into the Poker Hall
of Fame. By 2006, he still played poker but also betted on sports.[4]
The purported amounts he made as a member of the “Computer Group,” one
of the most successful sports-betting syndicates in history, are
likely in the tens of millions.
At the 2006 World Series of Poker, Reese won the $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 in WSOP
history, as well as the longest heads-up battle with Reese and Bloch
playing for 7 hours and 286 hands. By comparison, the final table of
the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event lasted for 232 hands total.
During his life time, Reese’s total live tournament winnings exceed
$2,900,000.[5]
Contents
1 World Series of Poker bracelets
2 Death
3 Notes
4 External links
World Series of Poker bracelets
Year Tournament Prize (US$)
2006 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. $1,784,640
1982 $5,000 Limit 7 Card Stud $92,500
1978 $1,000 Seven-Card Stud Split $19,200
Death
Reese passed away from pneumonia on December 4, 2007.[6]
Notes
^ Pokernews.com Legends of Poker: David ‘Chip’ Reese
^ Super System 127
^ Super System 127 - 128
^ Poker-babes.com bio: Chip Reese
^ Hendon Mob tournament results
^ CardPlayer.com - Chip Reese: 1951-2007
External links
Barry Greenstein’s player analysis of Reese
World Poker Tour profile
PokerListings.com interview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Reese
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The recall was prompted by consumer complaints received by the manufacturer and by tasting trials conducted by the manufacturer. There has been a small number of reported instances of cats and dogs in the United States that developed kidney failure after eating the affected product. Ten deaths, one dog and nine cats, have reported at this time. The firm has undertaken extensive testing of the pet food products in question, but to date has been unable to find the source of the problem.
The products are packaged in cans and pouches under numerous brand names and are marketed nationwide by many pet food retailers including Ahold USA Inc., Kroger Company, Safeway, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., PetSmart, Inc., and Pet Valu, Inc.
Menu Foods, Inc. has identified the potentially contaminated products on the Internet at www.menufoods.com/recall. Consumers who have any of these products should immediately stop feeding them to their pets. Dogs or cats who have consumed the suspect feed and show signs of kidney failure (such as loss of appetite, lethargy and vomiting) should consult with their veterinarian. Menu Foods, Inc. is notifying retailers by telephone and mail and is arranging for the return of all recalled products.
FDA is conducting an investigation and working with Menu Foods, Inc. to ensure the effectiveness of the recall. Consumers with questions may contact the company at 1-866-895-2708. Consumers who wish to report adverse actions or other problems can go to http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/complain.html to contact the FDA complaint coordinator in their state.
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Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ‘le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially - but to some a derogatory term - Paddy’s Day, is the feast day which annually celebrates Saint Patrick (386-493), the patron saint of Ireland, on March 17. It is the Irish national holiday and one of the public holidays in the Republic of Ireland (a bank holiday in Northern Ireland); the overseas territory of Montserrat; and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the United States it is widely celebrated, although not an official holiday.
Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide by Irish people and increasingly by many of non-Irish descent. Celebrations are generally themed around all things green and Irish; both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food, imbibing Irish drink, and attending parades.
The St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin, Ireland is part of a five-day festival, with over 500,000 people attending the 2006 parade. The largest St. Patrick’s Day parade is held in New York City and it is watched by 2 million spectators. The St. Patrick’s day parade was first held in New York City on 17 March 1766 when Irish soldiers marched through the city. Ireland’s cities all hold their own parades and festivals. These cities include Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Galway, Derry, Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford. Parades also take place in other Irish towns and villages. Other large parades include those in Cleveland, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Coatbridge, Montreal, Boston,Houston, Chicago, Kansas City, Savannah, Pittsburgh, Denver, Sacramento, Scranton, and Toronto. Large parades also take place throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Asia.
As well as being a celebration of Irish culture, Saint Patrick’s Day is a Christian festival celebrated in the Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland and some other denominations. The day always falls in the season of Lent. In church calendars (though rarely in secular ones) Saint Patrick’s Day is moved to the following Monday when it falls on a Sunday. It is traditional for those observing a lenten fast to break it for the duration of Saint Patrick’s Day whenever March 17 falls on a Friday.
In many parts of North America, Britain, and Australia expatriate Irish, those of Irish descent, and ever-growing crowds of people with no Irish connections but who may proclaim themselves “Irish for a day” also celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, usually by drinking incredible amounts of alcoholic beverages (lager dyed green, Irish beer and stout, such as Murphys, Smithwicks, Harp or Guinness, or Irish whiskey, Irish cider, Irish coffee, or Baileys Irish Cream) and by wearing at least one article of green-coloured clothing.
In the recent past, Saint Patrick’s Day was celebrated only as a religious holiday. It became a public holiday only in 1903, by the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act 1903, an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament introduced by the Irish MP James O’Mara. O’Mara later introduced the law which required that pubs be closed on March 17, a provision which was repealed only in the 1970s. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade held in the Irish Free State was held in Dublin in 1931 and was reviewed by the then Minister of Defence Desmond Fitzgerald. Although secular celebrations now exist, the holiday is still a religious observance in some areas.
It was only in the mid-1990s that the Irish government began a campaign to use Saint Patrick’s Day to showcase Ireland and its culture. The government set up a group called St. Patrick’s Festival, with the aim to:
—Offer a national festival that ranks amongst all of the greatest celebrations in the world and promote excitement throughout Ireland via innovation, creativity, grassroots involvement, and marketing activity.
—Provide the opportunity and motivation for people of Irish descent,(and those who sometimes wish they were Irish) to attend and join in the imaginative and expressive celebrations.
—Project, internationally, an accurate image of Ireland as a creative, professional and sophisticated country with wide appeal, as we approach the new millennium.
The first Saint Patrick’s Festival was held on March 17, 1996. In 1997, it became a three-day event, and by 2000 was a four-day event. By 2006, the festival was five days long.
The topic of the 2004 St. Patrick’s Symposium was “Talking Irish,” during which the nature of Irish identity, economic success and the future was discussed. Since 1996, there has been a greater emphasis on celebrating and projecting a fluid and inclusive notion of “Irishness” rather than an identity based around traditional religious or ethnic allegiance. The week around Saint Patrick’s Day usually involves Irish speakers using more Irish during seachtain na Gaeilge (”Irish Week”).
Many Irish people still wear a bunch of shamrock on their lapels or caps on this day or green, white, and orange badges (after the colors of the Irish flag). Girls and boys wear green in their hair. Artists draw shamrock signs on people’s cheek as a cultural sign, including American Tourists.
And although Saint Patrick’s Day has the colour green as their theme, one little known fact is that it was once blue that was the colour of this day.
The biggest celebrations on the island of Ireland outside Dublin are in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, where Saint Patrick was buried following his death on March 17, 493. In 2004, according to Down District Council, the week-long St. Patrick’s Festival had over 2000 participants and 82 floats, bands, and performers, and was watched by over 30,000 people.
The day is celebrated by the Church of Ireland as a Christian festival, Saint Patrick’s Day as a celebration of Irish culture was rarely acknowledged by Northern Irish loyalists, who consider it a festival of the Irish republicans. The Belfast City Council recently agreed to give public funds to its parade for the first time; previously the parade was funded privately. The Belfast parade is based on equality and only the flag of St. Patrick is supposed to be used as a symbol of the day to prevent it being seen as a time which is exclusively for Republicans and Nationalists. This allowed both Unionists and Nationalists to celebrate the day together. Most people in Northern Ireland from both Nationalist and Unionist traditions wish to have St. Patrick’s day designated a National holiday throughout Northern Ireland, as it is currently only a Bank Holiday.
Since the 1990s, Irish Taoisigh have sometimes attended special functions either on Saint Patrick’s Day or a day or two earlier, in the White House, where they present shamrock to the President of the United States. A similar presentation is made to the Speaker of the House. Originally only representatives of the Republic of Ireland attended, but since the mid-1990s all major Political parties in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are invited, with the attendance including the representatives of the Irish government, the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Sinn Féin and others. No Northern Irish parties were invited for these functions in 2005. In recent years, it is common for the entire Irish government to be abroad representing the country in various parts of the world. In 2003, the President of Ireland celebrated the holiday in Sydney, the Taoiseach was in Washington, while other Irish government members attended ceremonies in New York City, Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Savannah, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Korea, Japan, and Brazil.
Saint Patrick’s Day parades in Ireland date from the late 19th century, originating in the growing sense of Irish nationalism. (The first parade did not begin in Ireland but in the United States)
From Wikipedia
Chinese New Year, also celebrated by Koreans, Vietnamese, Mongolian, etc. for hundreds of years, is called Korean New Year, Vietnamese New Year, etc. by other peoples and known in Chinese as the Spring Festival (Simplified Chinese: 春节; Traditional Chinese: 春節; pinyin: Chūnjié) or the Lunar New Year (Simplified Chinese: 农历新年; Traditional Chinese: 農曆新年; pinyin: Nónglì xīnnián). It is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays (The second most important one is the Moon Festival). The festival proper begins on the first day of the first lunar month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival (Simplified Chinese: 元宵节; Traditional Chinese: 元宵節; Mandarin Pinyin: yuánxiāojié; Min Nan pe̍h-ōe-jī: goân-siau-chiat). Lantern Festival is also known as the fifteenth night (Mandarin Chinese: 十五晚; pinyin: shíwǔwǎn or Min Nan Chinese: 十五暝; pe̍h-ōe-jī: cha̍p-gō·-mê).
Chinese New Year’s Eve is known as Chúxì (除夕). Chu literally means “change” and xi means “Eve”.
Celebrated internationally in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had a strong influence on the new year celebrations of its neighbours. These include Koreans, Vietnamese, Japanese, Miao (Chinese Hmong), Mongolians, Tibetans, the Nepalese and the Bhutanese (see Losar).
Around Chinese New Year is also the time of the largest human migration, when overseas Chinese around the world travel home to have reunion dinners with their families on Chinese New Year’s eve.
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