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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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Vickie Lynn Marshall (November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007), better known under the stage name of Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model, actress and celebrity. Her highly publicized marriage to oil business executive and billionaire J. Howard Marshall, 63 years her senior, resulted in speculation that she married the octogenarian for his money, which she denied. Following his death, she began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate; her case, Marshall v. Marshall, reached the U.S. Supreme Court on a question of federal jurisdiction.

Born and raised in Texas, Smith dropped out of high school and first married at the age of 17. She first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for clothing companies, including Guess jeans. She starred in her own reality TV show, The Anna Nicole Show. In the months before her death, she was the focus of renewed press coverage surrounding the death of her son, Daniel Smith.

Early Life

She was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston, Texas, the only child of Donald Eugene Hogan (born July 12, 1947) and Virgie Mae Tabers (born July 12, 1951), who married on February 22, 1967. Her father then left the family; he and Virgie divorced on November 4, 1969. Virgie’s oldest child, Vickie’s half-brother, is David Luther Tacker, Jr. (born 1966). Vickie Hogan was raised by her mother and aunt, Elaine (Todd) Tabers, wife of Virgie’s brother, Melvin Tabers.

Virgie, who worked as a law enforcement officer in Houston for 28 years, subsequently married Donald R. Hart in 1971. Their child was Donald Ray Hart, Jr. (born 1972). After Virgie married Donald Hart, Vickie Hogan changed her name to Nikki Hart. Virgie and Donald Hart divorced in 1983. Virgie then married Joe D. Thompson (1987, divorced 1991), James T. Sanders (1996, died 1996), and James H. Arthur (2000).

Vickie’s father Donald married Wanda Faye Atkinson in 1970 and had the following children: Donna Hogan (born 1971), Donald Ray Hogan (born 1973), and Amy Hogan (born 1975). Donald and Wanda were divorced in 1978. Donald married Carolyn S. Vandver in 1996.

Vickie attended Durkee Elementary School and Aldine Intermediate School in Houston. When she was in the 9th grade, she was sent to live with her mother’s younger sister, Kay Beall, in Mexia, Texas. At Mexia High School, Vickie failed her freshman year; she quit school during her sophomore year.

While working as a waitress at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, she met Billy Wayne Smith, who was a cook at the restaurant. The couple married April 4, 1985; she was 17 and he was 16. The next year, she gave birth to their son, Daniel Wayne Smith. She and Billy separated in 1987 and she moved to Houston with one-year-old Daniel. They were officially divorced February 3, 1993, in Houston.

Initially, she found employment at Wal-Mart, then as a waitress at Red Lobster. She then became an exotic dancer, and in 1991, began taking modeling and voice lessons. In October of that year, she saw an ad in the newspaper to audition for Playboy magazine…more