Tag: Chip Reese
Five Thoughts: How to Improve the November Nine
11-01-2011
The November Nine will return the Rio on Sunday to complete the 2011 WSOP Main Event. We offer a few suggestions to improve poker's biggest final table.
High Stakes Poker Season 7: Guess Who's Back
05-16-2011
Daniel Negreanu returned to High Stakes Poker this past weekend to play his first session of season seven. Check out how he, Phil Galfond, Doyle Brunson, Phil Laak and Johnny Chan fared.
PokerNews Debate: Are $250,000 Buy-in Events Good or Bad?
02-08-2011
We take a look at the controversy surrounding the recent $250,000 event at the Aussie Millions. Donnie Peters and Rich Ryan discuss why they are good and bad for poker and whether or not they should count in the all-time money list.
PokerNews Op-Ed: Should There be an Age Requirement for the Poker Hall of Fame?
10-30-2010
Chad Holloway takes a look at the debate surrounding an age requirement for the Poker Hall of Fame.
Wicked Thoughts: Ten Minutes with Wicked Chops Poker's Steve "Chops" Preiss
12-02-2009
Although we like to think we know everything poker-related here at PokerNews, we know it is important to keep our fingers on the pulse of the poker media. If anybody has a unique of the industry, it's the boys from Wicked Chops Poker, and we were...
PokerNews Op-Ed: Mike Sexton and the Poker Hall of Fame Dinner
11-15-2009
I had the honor of being one of the 15 members of the media who cast votes for the Poker Hall of Fame, so I was not going to miss the opportunity of a lifetime to rub shoulders with its current living members including T. J. Cloutier, Dewey...
Near Miss for Andy Bloch in FTOPS Event #5
08-08-2009
The thirteenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) continued on Friday with two more events. Among all of the notable finishes, one in particular stands out. Team Full Tilt member Andy Bloch took second place in event #5, a $200+16 stud...
2009 WSOP: David Bach Wins $50K HORSE in Marathon Final
07-01-2009
“Poker is a marathon, not a sprint.” “You’ve gotta be in the game for the long haul....
2009 WSOP: Habib Off to Flying Start in HORSE #49
06-27-2009
Chip Reese. Freddy Deeb. Scotty Nguyen. Those three men comprise an exclusive club in poker, the only three...
2008 WSOP Event #45, $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Day 4: Erick Lindgren, Scotty Nguyen Head Final
06-29-2008
Beginning Day 4, the 24 remaining players in Event #45, $50,000 H.O.R.S.E., featured world champions, internet superstars, top cash game players, TV stars and one living legend. With over 30 WSOP bracelets among them...
Dr. Pauly at the 2008 WSOP: A H.O.R.S.E. Preview
06-25-2008
In 2006, the World Series of Poker added their first ever $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, which was dubbed the player's championship. In some ways, pros wanted to win the H.O.R.S.E. bracelet more so than the Main Event. With the title also...
Sexton's Corner, Vol. 50: One Year, 50 Stories…
06-23-2008
The creation of 'Sexton's Corner' happened at the 2007 World Series of Poker. At the time, my wife, Janis, suggested I get a job at the 2007 WSOP with PokerNews.com, as she heard they might be hiring. I met a group for basic training...
Sexton's Corner, Vol. 34: Archie Karas, Part 4 -- More Poker
03-03-2008
A few months before his untimely death, Chip Reese was quoted as saying, 'The most money I ever lost in poker was $2,022,000 in one night, playing $8,000/$16,000 limit. I lost that money to Archie Karas.' During Archie's amazing...
Sexton's Corner, Vol. 33: Archie Karas, Part 3 -- Poker Stories
02-25-2008
If you won $7,000,000 on a three-month rush, and stacked up all the cash on a big table, would you then risk it all playing the world's greatest players, including Chip Reese, Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, Johnny Chan, and a host...
Sexton's Corner, Vol. 29: A Tribute to Chip Reese
01-28-2008
Two days after Chip Reese won the WSOP's first-ever $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event in 2006, I was in traffic at a red light at Flamingo and the Strip. As I looked up at the biggest electronic video billboard in Vegas, in front of Bally's...
Sexton's Corner, Vol. 28: More on Danny Robison
01-21-2008
When you think about 1960, you probably remember it as the year of the Rome Olympics or the Presidential election of John F. Kennedy. For me, it was also the year I witnessed Danny Robison launch his gambling career. I walked into the woodshop...
Sexton's Corner, Vol. 27: The Golddust Twins – Part 4
01-14-2008
Partnerships usually don't last forever, and the partnership of Chip Reese and Danny Robison, who would become known as the Golddust Twins, came to an end by the end of 1978. They stayed lifelong friends, but each began a different path...
Sexton's Corner, Vol. 26: The Golddust Twins, Part 3
01-07-2008
Chip Reese and Danny Robison were partners from 1973 through 1978 in Las Vegas, right up and through the pressure they each experienced from mob enforcer, Tony Spilotro, so aptly portrayed by Joe Pesci in the movie Casino. While Benny Binion...
The Year in Poker: December, 2007
12-31-2007
Several important poker stories jumped into the public eye in early December, from another full slate of major poker tourneys to landmark decisions in the World Trade Organization battle over access to the U.S. online-gambling market...
Sexton's Corner, Vol. 25: The Golddust Twins, Part 2
12-31-2007
The first time Chip Reese took a shot at the big game in Las Vegas was a life-changing event for both Danny Robison and himself. Many poker players who dare to enter the big game end up losing everything, never to be seen again...
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