Big Picture: One of a Kind

"I'll stop playing at my funeral," legendary poker player David "Chip" Reese '73 once said. "And only God knows what I'll do after that. Sadly, "the Jack Nicklaus" of poker, as some called Reese, died at age 56 in December. As a first-grader Reese learned all sorts of card and board games from his mother when he was forced to stay home with rheumatic fever. "I'm really a product of that year," he admitted. Reese put his economics major to use winning millions, which led to his becoming the youngest inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame. Photograph by Eric IX Harkins/LMPDI for the WSOP