1983 WSOP WINNER TOM McEVOY
At the bottom of this page you will find a short bio of 1983 WSOP winner Tom McEvoy. Click on any one of the WSOP winners below to read their bio!
At the bottom of this page you will find a short bio of 1983 WSOP winner Tom McEvoy. Click on any one of the WSOP winners below to read their bio!
1983 WSOP WINNER TOM McEVOY
Tom McEvoy (born November 14, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA is a professional poker player and author.
McEvoy was an accountant but after he was laid off from his job he took up poker full time in 1978. He first learned to play poker when he was five years old and would regularly get in trouble for playing it in grade school.
McEvoy won the 1983 World Series of Poker main event, and still plays regularly today. He has played against every WSOP main event winner in the history of the event.
He was also the first main event winner to earn his buy-in through a satellite tournament. Satellites and Super-Satellites are highly popular today, particularly online.
McEvoy is staunchly opposed to smoking. In 1998 he helped organize the first tournament where smoking was not allowed. There was much reluctance, but the tournament still attracted a large number of players, and therefore confirmed the viability of having non-smoking tournaments. In 2002 he convinced Benny Binion Behnen to make the WSOP a non-smoking tournament by agreeing to give Behnen poker lessons.
McEvoy has authored or coauthored over a dozen books on poker with other players such as T. J. Cloutier, Brad Daughert, Don Vines, and Max Stern. He is a columnist for CardPlayer Magazine and a representative of PokerStars.com.
As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,500,000
McEvoy resides in Las Vegas, Nevada and has three children.
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McEvoy was an accountant but after he was laid off from his job he took up poker full time in 1978. He first learned to play poker when he was five years old and would regularly get in trouble for playing it in grade school.
McEvoy won the 1983 World Series of Poker main event, and still plays regularly today. He has played against every WSOP main event winner in the history of the event.
He was also the first main event winner to earn his buy-in through a satellite tournament. Satellites and Super-Satellites are highly popular today, particularly online.
McEvoy is staunchly opposed to smoking. In 1998 he helped organize the first tournament where smoking was not allowed. There was much reluctance, but the tournament still attracted a large number of players, and therefore confirmed the viability of having non-smoking tournaments. In 2002 he convinced Benny Binion Behnen to make the WSOP a non-smoking tournament by agreeing to give Behnen poker lessons.
McEvoy has authored or coauthored over a dozen books on poker with other players such as T. J. Cloutier, Brad Daughert, Don Vines, and Max Stern. He is a columnist for CardPlayer Magazine and a representative of PokerStars.com.
As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,500,000
McEvoy resides in Las Vegas, Nevada and has three children.
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