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Posted Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:24 pm GMT by JonnyBoy
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Poker legend Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson, the man credited with creating the style of play made famous by the World Series of Poker, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 77.
Pearson was known as the father of no-limit freeze out poker, the game Benny Binion turned into the World Series of Poker at his Horseshoe Club casino in downtown Las Vegas in 1970.
In a freeze-out tournament, all the players start with the same amount of money and play until one player wins all the chips.
Pearson also was known as a classic Las Vegas character, a storyteller with a flair for the dramatic who donned elaborate costumes and wacky hats at the start of each World Series competition.
He won the tournament four times in the 1970s and 1980s, when the game was largely the province of big gamblers from Texas. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1987.
At the 2005 World Series of Poker, he got a standing ovation when he climbed on stage to sing his self-penned theme song, "The Roving Gambler," in which he promises to gamble anywhere with anyone as long as there's a deck of cards.
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Posted Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:15 pm GMT by LeafsFan1122
RIP Pearson. 
Posted Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:36 am GMT by UrAteUp
Oh man another poker legend gone...  . Anyone who has not read about Puggy should. He was one of the meanest SOBs in Vegas but a hell of a player.
RIP Puggy. You will never be forgotten.
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