David "Chip" Reese was born in Dayton, Ohio and now lives in Las Vegas,
Nevada. Reese began playing poker around the age of six when he and his
friends used baseball cards for currency. These days, Reese is known as
one of the world's best cash game players - playing regularly in some
of the biggest cash games in Vegas with the games best players. Chip
Reese graduated Dartmouth College with the intentions of attending law
school at Stanford University, but on his way entered and won a poker
tournament worth $60,000. That win ended Chip's legal career though it
began a legendary poker career that would earn Chip membership into the
Poker Hall of Fame, 2 WSOP bracelets, and over $600,000 in tournament
winnings alone.
Reese's two WSOP bracelets came in the events of
Seven Card Stud Split (1978) and Seven Card Stud (1982). Some of Chip
Reese's other achievements in tournament poker include: 2nd place in
the 1988 WSOP Deuce to Seven Draw event worth $87,500, 3rd place in the
1989 WSOP Deuce to Seven Draw event wroth $46,500, and 5th place in the
1995 WSOP No Limit Hold 'em $2,500 buy-in event taking home $31,125.
Recently, Chip Reese took 4th place in The Fifth Annual Jack Binion
World Poker Main Event collecting $207,304 and proving to the poker
world that he continues to menace the field of any tournament he
enters. Chip Reese is respected and feared by most of the best poker
players in the world, and it's only a matter of time before you'll be
seeing him at the final table of another major tournament.