In it, Brunson describes Reese as 'one of the two finest young … poker players in the world' and the best seven-card stud player he had ever played. Shortly afterwards, Reese collaborated on the seven-card stud section for Doyle Brunson's Super/System, the best-selling poker book of all time. He called his day job in Arizona several days later to quit and hired someone to fly to Arizona to clean out his apartment and drive his car to Las Vegas. Reese's first visit to Las Vegas was so financially rewarding and so much fun, that he never left. By the time he would have started at Stanford, he had made $100,000. Reese was admitted to Stanford Law School, but decided instead to play poker professionally after winning $60,000 in a tournament in Las Vegas. His fraternity later named their chapter card room, the 'David E. Reese played bridge at the Grafton County Grange. He taught his fraternity brothers to play a variety of card games, including bridge as well as many poker variants. Reese also had tremendous success in poker games against students and some of his professors. At Dartmouth, he became a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, played freshman football briefly, participated in debate, and majored in economics. Reese attended Dartmouth after turning down an offer from Harvard. In high school, he was a football player and was on the debate team, winning an Ohio State Championship and going to the National Finals. Reese later described himself as 'a product of that year.' By the age of six, he was regularly beating fifth-graders at poker.

During this time, his mother taught him how to play several board and card games. Reese suffered from rheumatic fever during his years at elementary school and had to stay at home for almost a year.

He is widely regarded as having been the greatest cash game poker player.

David Edward ' Chip' Reese (March 28, 1951 – December 4, 2007) was an American professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Ohio.

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