Poker Legend Puggy Pearson Dead at 77

Poker Player Newspaper carried this article pertaining to the passing of poker legend Puggy Pearson. Credited with a great degree of the success of No Limit Holdem as a tournament game, Puggy Pearson was also beloved by many (especially the older gang) as one of the more colorful characters in the poker world. As the article points out, however, he wasn’t necessarily a favorite of the dealers. Like many of the other older guys (Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim, et al), Puggy Pearson deserves the accolades of millions of poker players who weren’t even born when he and his like were burning up the roads and taking down the big pots.