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Tom McEvoy (born November 14, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) is a professional poker player.
McEvoy was an accountant but after he was fired from his job he took up poker full time in 1978. He first learned to play poker when he was five years old and would regularly get in trouble for playing it in grade school.
McEvoy won the 1983 World Series of Poker main event, and still plays regularly today. As of 2004 he has 4 WSOP bracelets and over $2 million in tournament winnings. He has played against every WSOP main event winner in the history of the event.
McEvoy is staunchly opposed to smoking. In 1998 he helped organize the first tournament where smoking was not allowed. There was much reluctance, but the tournament still attracted a large number of players, and therefore confirmed the viability of having non-smoking tournaments. In 2002 he convinced Benny Binion Behnen to make the WSOP to be a non-smoking tournament by agreeing to give Behnen poker lessons.
McEvoy has authored or coauthored over a dozen books on poker with other poker greats such as T. J. Cloutier and Brad Daugherty. He is a columnist for Card Player Magazine and he runs a website, PokerProfessor.com, which seeks to educate new poker players. He is also currently working on ideas for televised poker shows.
McEvoy resides in Las Vegas, Nevada and has three children.
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