The WSOP will honor the late Chip Reese this year by awarding the winner of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E event with the ‘David “Chip” Reese Award’ along with the bracelet and cash. Reese was the first winner of this event in 2006, the first year they made it the premier tournament amongst the game’s elite. That was his third WSOP bracelet in a poker career that rarely saw him in tournament play. He only went back to playing in tournaments because his children wanted him to do so.

Reese was considered one of the greatest high-limit mixed poker cash game players of all time. He was a fixture on the Vegas poker scene since the 70’s and was the youngest to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1991. Reese will be sorely missed in the poker community, and naming the tournament after him will hopefully continue beyond this year.