Tom McEvoy is one of those poker stories where a life-altering event led him into the poker room, and he never left. After getting laid off from his accounting job, Tom started to play poker fulltime. He became a professional in 1978 and is a true legend in the game. He is the 1983 WSOP Main Event Champion and has played poker against every WSOP champion there ever was.

McEvoy has four WSOP bracelets – one for limit hold’em, one for no limit hold’em (main event), one for Razz, and one for limit Omaha. He is a real old-time pro who is dangerous in any variation of the game. With 29 WSOP cashes, and a list the length of your arm of other cashes since the early 80’s, his tournament winnings total over $2.6 million.

McEvoy has shown that he is still a force today by winning a PPT event against 168 other top professionals in March 2005. He is 84th on the all-time tournament money list, and 61st all-time on the WSOP list. Tom can also claim to be the first satellite winner who turned it into a main event championship, and has turned other satellite wins into major cashes.

He was a leader in the crusade which banned smoking in big tournaments. He organized the first non-smoking event and bribed Benny Binion Behnen with poker lessons to make the WSOP a smoke-free environment. He has also written a total of 11 poker books, some with players like T.J. Cloutier, Max Stern, and Brad Daugherty.

McEvoy has kept his profile in the public domain by doing a column for Cardplayer Magazine, and he is sponsored by Pokerstars. He continues to work at his game, and remains an example of how a player can make a good living at poker and be a complete gentleman at the same time.

McEvoy is most comfortable at home where he plays poker online and says that some days he never gets out of his pj’s, which sure beats going into the accounting office every day.