People were both sad and also pretty angry at the same time.”Ĭasey passed away nearly 16 months to the day after Chip, who died on December 4th, 2007 in his Las Vegas home. Chau was a very good friend of both Chip and Casey and while he came down to play poker, he just couldn’t do it. Kid was 20 years old, an incredible baseball pitcher, super smart, good looking kid… very sad. Negreanu noted that he was at the Bellagio when he heard the news and wrote on Full Contact Poker, “Everyone took it pretty hard.

The news was confirmed by Negreanu, who posted in a thread on Full Contact Poker that speculated something might have happened to Casey. I will always remember the closeness between Chip and Casey.” Brunson heard the news from his nephew and felt that he “let Chip down, but I don’t know what I could have done to help Casey.” He was very handsome and extremely personable. I had seen Casey a few days ago and he looked great.

Casey was found in his apartment from an apparent overdose of prescription drugs. On Tuesday, the following text appeared in Brunson’s official blog on his online poker site, Doyle’s Room: “It happened again yesterday, only this time it was Chip’s only son, Casey Reese. The son of the late Chip Reese, Casey Reese, has passed away from an overdose of prescription drugs, according to comments by Daniel Negreanu and Doyle Brunson on Full Contact Poker and Doyle’s Room.

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