Famous Poker Legends

Jack Straus was called “Treetop” because he was two meters tall and had a big bushy beard. He was a really lovable man and had a reputation for betting every single dollar in his pocket every day. Straus carried around thousands of dollars which were placed chaotically in a brown paper bag. There were many cases in which he managed to lose the bag and he was left flat broke. He wasn’t upset when this happened, he just make comments like “Such is life.” Straus was one of the best No-Limit Texas Hold’em players of his time. In 1982 he won poker’s world championship. For years, the Frontier Casino in Las Vegas organized a major tournament in his name, which attracted poker’s best players. In 1988 he died from a heart attack while participating in a high-stakes poker game in Los Angelis. Straus died doing what he loved best - playing poker.

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