Mike Sexton, former Poker champion, died at the age of 72. He was fondly called as “Ambassador
of Poker” as he promoted the game throughout his life. World Poker Tour and
partypoker, an online poker company Sexton cofounded, confirmed his death,
reported CNN.

Linda Johnson, fellow poker
champion, said that Sexton “had been battling prostate cancer”. Cancer
had also spread to other organs.

Such was his influence in
the game that surviving pokers greats concur that the game wouldn’t be in the
fore without Sexton.

For a long time, Sexton was a
commentator for World Poker Tour and won his own World Poker Tour title in
2016.

Since his debut in the 1980s, Sexton has won nearly $7 million, CNN reported.

The Poker great also wrote two
books, founded a nonprofit for players to donate to veterans causes and Las
Vegas communities, and created partypoker.

Sexton not only was inducted
into the Poker Hall of Fame but also had the Champions Cup named after him.

“Poker would not be as
well regarded as it currently is without Mike Sexton. Mike has been the
consummate gentleman, and has championed poker better than anyone else,”
professional player Phil Hellmuth wrote in a blog.

Sexton’s famous sign-off was:
“May all of your cards be live, and may all of your pots be
monsters.”