Tom McEvoy
Tom McEvoy is one of the many poker players who started out as math wizards in the form of accountants. He also is one of the more seasoned poker players in the circuit today, having started playing poker professionally and full-time when he got laid off of his job in 1978. His thirty-one year-old career truly has been a very productive one, and it is one that is exceptionally remarkable. After a year of polishing his game, he started joining different tournaments in casinos in 1979. His debut in the international poker world took place three years later though, when he joined the 13th Annual World Series of Poker, taking sixth place in their Limit 
Razz event. He took home $3,200 for that event. It was followed by a much more significant win the next year – he won $117,000 for taking first place at the No Limit Hold’em event of the Annual WSOP, and he went on to win the WSOP World Championship for No Limit Hold’em four days later, taking home an additional $540,000. That gained him two WSOP bracelets in the same year. He was clearly off to a good start.
In his career so far he has four WSOP bracelets to his name. The other two were won separately – one in 1986, where he won $52,400 for Limit Razz, and one in 1992, when he won in Limit Omaha and took home $79,200. He has had ten first-place finishes all in all, and he has made an astounding 119 money finishes throughout his career as a professional poker player. Those money finishes amount to more than $2.8 million, over $1.2 million of which came from the World Series of Poker alone. He has also already joined the European Poker Tour and the World Poker Tour, but he has yet to earn titles in the aforementioned tournaments. Aside from his superb poker playing skills, he is also known to be a vocal non-smoker, even getting Binion Benhen to agree to make the WSOP a non-smoking tournament in 2002 in exchange for free poker lessons.