David "Chip" Reese After enjoying an academic career that was extremely successful, Chip Reese traded his text books for some poker chips. After attending Dartmouth College for economics, Chip Reese turned down his spot at Stanford Business School to play poker full time. Poker was one of the many games Chip Reese learned as a young child from his mother. While suffering from the rheumatic fever as a young child, Reese learned many games from his mother while other kids his age were in school. During his Dartmouth years Chip Reese's poker skills were so well known that his fraternity brothers at the Beta house decided to name their card room, The David E. Reese Memorial Card Room. Early in his professional poker days the money was coming in very well for Chip Reese and the young poker was asked to write a section on seven-card stud in Doyle Brunson's Super System, a book that would later become a must-read for any poker player. During the early days of the World Series of Poker, Chip Reese won a couple seven card stud WSOP events and enjoyed the money and respect that came with it. This year's WSOP was especially special for Reese, he won the tournament's $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event and took home $1,716,000 and a World Series of Poker bracelet to match. See More Profiled World Series Of Poker Players