Tom McEvoy
Tom McEvoy was born in 1944 in Michigan and is a professional poker player. He is a qualified accountant who first began playing poker at the age of five when taught by his grandmother. When he was laid off from his job as an accountant, he decided to take up poker full time. He has also written books on poker with other professional poker players such as T.J. Cloutier and Max Stern.
Tom McEvoy
McEvoy has four World Series of Poker bracelets, his first won coming in 1983 in the $1000 Limit Hold’em event. Hot on the heels of this bracelet win, McEvoy won his second bracelet six days later in the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship Main Event. Three years later, McEvoy picked up his third bracelet in the $1000 Razz event and in 1982 he won his fourth bracelet in the $1500 Limit Omaha event.
McEvoy has won almost $3 million in tournament earnings during his career and of that almost $1.5 million was won from his 40 WSOP cashes. In 2009 at the first ever World Series of Poker Invitational, McEvoy won by beating 19 of the former Main Event winners.
He is a fierce non-smoker and helped to organize the very first non-smoking poker tournament which was not popular with many of the players at the time. However there was still a large number of entrants at the tournament which showed that non-smoking tournaments could work.
As an author McEvoy has either written or co-written more than a dozen books on the game and he is also a magazine columnist for CardPlayer Magazine. He has three children and lives in Las Vegas.
