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Getting his due

By Gary Wise
ESPN.com

Monday, October 19, 2009

There are some members of the old guard -- Tom McEvoy comes to mind -- who will tell you that the attention paid in the poker world to younger, less-established players with the good fortune to have been blessed with charisma is unfair. After all, these "poker entertainers" haven't paid their dues. They haven't paid their toll of 50,000 hours at the table or shared their wisdom in books or done what they could to promote the game for a quarter-century. At least McEvoy, as a former world champion ...

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