Poker Legend Dies
A Hall of Fame poker player and Kettering native has died.
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Mike Sexton, a poker commentator whose calls were heard during broadcasts of World Poker Tour events and others, was 72.
He graduated in 1965 from Fairmont East High School. He later was a gymnast at Ohio State.
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Sexton’s death has shaken the poker community. Top players like Phil Helmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey have taken to social media to remember him.
“A gutting loss,” Ivey said. “Mike Sexton was a giant for the game. Very few people did more for the game of poker than he did. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones.”
Negreanu called Sexton a competitor, a friend and a remarkable human being.
Poker player Linda Johnson said that Sexton was battling prostate cancer that had recently spread to other organs. He had been in hospice care for about a month, she said.
Sexton spoke to the Dayton Daily News in 2004 about learning poker while growing up in the Dayton area. He said he often lost his paper route money to schoolmate Danny Robinson playing cards. Robinson would later become one of the best seven-card stud players in the country.
“For my route with The (Dayton) Journal Herald, I would collect every Friday,” said Sexton. “When I got home, Danny — who was two years ahead of me in school — would be shuffling cards on my stoop waiting for me. He kept me broke.”
As a player, he won nearly $7 million since his debut in the 1980s, according to CNN.
(CNN)Beloved poker commentator and champion Mike Sexton, nicknamed the 'Ambassador of Poker' for his lifelong promotion of the game, has died at 72.
Sexton had a hand in every aspect of poker -- broadcast, business and the game itself. Surviving poker greats say the game wouldn't be as successful as it is today without his influence.
Sexton was a longtime commentator for World Poker Tour, which hosts international televised tournaments, with broadcasting partner Vince Van Patten.
'Poker would not be as well regarded as it currently is without Mike Sexton,' Hellmuth wrote. 'Mike has been the consummate gentleman, and has championed poker better than anyone else.'
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Upon learning of his death, many of Sexton's friends and fans have shared Sexton's famous sign-off: 'May all of your cards be live, and may all of your pots be monsters.'