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This game, that
people reported started in Tennessee, was in those days simply
called Hold-em, then some card rooms began at that time prefixed the
game with “Texas”, to distinguish it from other forms of Hold-em
(there were none). Perhaps a Vegas card room manager from Texas
wanted the world to think it originated in Texas (poor Tennessee)!
But we’re getting
away from the subject at hand, Jay Heimowitz.
Jay won enough
that year to travel faster and more comfortably to each of the
ensuing WSOPs. He beat the side action and the $1,000 buy-in
No-Limit Hold-em event that year while taking on such luminaries as
Johnny Moss, Amarillo Slim, Puggy Pearson, Sailor Roberts (the
eventual main event winner) and Doyle, beating them all at their own
game!
Readers… you have
to remember that this reporter has been out of contact with the WSOP
and other high profile tournaments for over 20 years (except for a
couple of brief WSOP “sweats” of our good friend and VCO columnist,
Bob Ciaffone, so it was like “Deja vu all over again” catching a
glimpse of this other “grey beard” that has not aged much, at a high
stakes side game in this 2006 Duel in the Desert.
I could of talked
all afternoon with this congenial and respectful gentleman. As it
was, this 5 minute interview lasted more than a half an hour… so
more tomorrow in my second installment of “5 minutes with THIS
Legend”.
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