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WSOP Stories: Mr. A-T, The Best 2nd-Best Player in History

“Legend” - a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated, Merriam Webster Dictionary

Legend, icon, hero – all these are terms used way too often and too easily today. But Johnny Moss -- the first superstar of poker, the “Eye in the Sky” -- was all that and more.

Among his many legendary feats?

Moss somehow came first AND second in the first WSOP. And he played the most famous, 5-month long heads-up match ever played.

Or did he?

The Most Famous Story in Poker

It’s 1949 in Las Vegas.