{"id":7231,"date":"2014-04-10T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/04\/10\/the-man-who-turned-800-into-2mm-danny-robison-poker-legend-dies\/"},"modified":"2014-04-10T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:37:24","slug":"the-man-who-turned-800-into-2mm-danny-robison-poker-legend-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/04\/10\/the-man-who-turned-800-into-2mm-danny-robison-poker-legend-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who turned $800 into $2MM, Danny Robison, Poker Legend, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i58.tinypic.com\/ivztr7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tIt came to light yesterday that professional poker legend and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Danny Robison had passed away.<\/p>\n<p>\tAn Ohio native, Robison, who is well-known for being one of the most renown seven-card stud players in the world, moved to Las Vegas in 1973 with his then good friend and partner Chip Reese.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe legend of Robison and Reese  found them in Las Vegas, for what was supposed to be simply a weekend in Sin City, with a combined bankroll of $800. The pair began taking 12-hour shifts playing $10\/20 Seven-Card Stud at the Stardust.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe weekend quickly became an extended stay and then in two and a half years, the pair turned that $800 into $2,000,000 and earned Robison and Reese the nickname of \u201cThe Golddust Twins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tAfter the passing of Chip Reese, Robison remained a larger than life poker personality and continued to play in some of the highest stakes stud games available in California being a regular at the Commerce Casino.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It came to light yesterday that professional poker legend and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Danny Robison had passed away. An Ohio native, Robison, who is well-known for being one of the most renown seven-card stud players in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}