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Chip Reese - Famous Poker Player - Dies At 56
Sad News about a Friend…
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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GoDaddy agrees to take over domain names in limbo from troubled … - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
GoDaddy agrees to take over domain names in limbo from troubled …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO - 23 minutes ago
GoDaddy.com, the leading registration company for Internet addresses, has agreed to take over and manage more than 850000 domain names belonging to … more
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Domain Name Registration Increases Over 350% From 2005, Says Dot VN
San Diego, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - January 11, 2006 - Domain name registration company, Dot VN, Inc., the official authorized global registrar for the Country of Vietnam, has reported that the total number of .vn domain names registered by the Company via online has increased over 350% since 2005.
New .vn registrations under Dot VN management grew from 919 total domain names registered in 2005 to over 4,100 for the 2006 year. In the aggregate, the total number .vn domain registration has increased as well. Based on statistics from the Vietnam Network Information Center (”VNNIC”), the administrative entity overseeing the development of the internet in Vietnam, .vn domain registration grew from 22,629 domain names registered in 2005 to over 34,000 in 2006, an increase of nearly 50%. Contributing factors to the Company’s sky-rocketing growth in domain registration are believed to be the rapid growth of Vietnam’s economy, the expansion of the Internet in the region, and Dot VN’s aggressive marketing/promotion of the 2nd level release (i.e. www.CompanyName.VN) for the .VN ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain).
Nguyen Le Thuy, Director of VNNIC remarked, “We are very pleased with Dot VN’s efforts in growing domain name registrations. The dramatic increase in the number of domains registered by Dot VN via the Internet in 2006 has exceeded our expectations. Further, Vietnam’s internet expansion is growing more rapidly than anticipated, a trend which we anticipate continuing in the coming year. We look forward to working jointly with Dot VN to service the growing number of internet users, as we begin building the first commercial Internet Data Center (IDC) to host these recently registered domains.”
Thomas Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Dot VN added, “We are extremely excited with the outstanding increase in domain names registered by our Company, in excess of 350%, as compared to 2005. We anticipate seeing even greater growth for Dot VN in 2007. In order to capture the high demand and to provide a full turn key Internet solutions to assist Vietnamese businesses and its citizens, Dot VN will continue to work closely with VNNIC to drive online domain name registration, as well as plan and build strategically located IDC’s throughout Vietnam.”
Vietnam Internet Network Information Center, is an affiliation to Ministry of Posts and Telematics. Its responsibilities are to allocate, develop and manage registry Internet resources in Vietnam; to establish, utilize and maintain the domain name server system for the national domain name .VN; to exploit the latest technologies relating to Internet resources.
Dot VN, Inc. is the exclusive online service provider of .VN (Vietnam) domain name registrations globally. The Company has established agreements with the Vietnamese government and international ISP’s (Internet service providers) such as VNPT, Netsoft, VDC, FPT, along with Verisign, MarkMonitor.com, NetNames.com, Ascio.com, MelbourneIT.com, RGNames.com, EbrandSecure.com, IPMirror.com and over 70 top domain resellers to commercialize Vietnam’s Internet and Telecommunications services. Dot VN, Inc. has strived to deliver high value online communication and commerce solutions along with outstanding customer service both domestically and internationally with a focus on Vietnam. The Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC) awarded Dot VN, Inc. an ‘’exclusive long term contract'’ to be the first registrar to promote, market and register its country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) of .VN (Vietnam) via the Internet. Dot VN, Inc. is developing an Internet based distribution network through which the Company delivers business applications and services and digital software content to a network of more than 70 Service Providers in over 30 countries. The Company is developing the latest Internet domain registration software technologies for marketing, sales and managing the .VN domain name registration, website design and hosting, email systems, e-commerce and e-marketing, Vietnamese Search Engine for .VN and VOIP telecommunications for Vietnam and other customers worldwide.
For more information about the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center, please visit: www.VNNIC.net.
To learn more about Dot VN, please visit: www.dotvn.com.
Woman to give Yao Ming domain name for hug
A CHINESE woman who registered the name of NBA star Yao Ming as an internet domain address is willing to give it up — for a price.
Identified only as Jin by the China Youth Daily newspaper, the woman said the price would be “a hug and an autograph” from the 7-foot-6 (2.28 meter) Houston Rockets star.
Yao, who could be out of action until February after fracturing a bone under his right knee, is China’s most popular and recognizable athlete.
Others have tried to take advantage of his name, triggering complaints from agents and fans. But this woman said she was trying to protect Yao, not harm him.
“I want to keep Yao’s name for being misused, just like everyone else,” she told the newspaper. “That’s why I registered his name ahead of those who want to take advantage.”
The name was registered with a mobile network served by China Internet Network Information Center.
A CNNIC official, cited by the newspaper, said the registration could be canceled if Yao could show he would suffer economic damage.
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