He later became the card room manager at the Dunes casino. Reese is rumored to have won a couple of million dollars in his first few years in town. Several days later he called his day job in Arizona to quit and hired someone to fly to Arizona to clean out his apartment and drive his car to Las Vegas. After turning $400 into tens of thousands of dollars playing poker, he gave up his plans for Stanford and stayed in Vegas to play poker professionally. On his way up to see a friend in California, he stopped off in Vegas for a weekend in 1974. He was admitted to Stanford Law School and intended on becoming a lawyer. Reese Memorial Card Room' and put up a plaque in his honor. He played many card games, including bridge and poker, against students and some of his professors and his fraternity later named their card room, the 'David E. He attended Dartmouth College and majored in economics after turning down an offer from Harvard University. When he was young he was confined to his home for nearly a year with rheumatic fever, during which time his mother taught him how to play cards.
Reese grew up in a small town and upper-middle class family in Ohio.
He is considered to have been one of the greatest cash game poker players in history. David Reese (Ma– December 4, 2007), more commonly known as Chip Reese, was a professional poker player and gambler from Ohio.
