Earlier this month, the poker world received the news that longtime grinder Mike McClain passed away from stomach cancer.
McClain had a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and previously worked in the computer industry before taking up poker full-time.
“Mike had been a poker mentor to me. Just listening to him describe hands made me a much better player,” poker author Lee Jones, a friend of McClain’s, shared in a remembrance on Poker.org. “He would drive down from his home in the Sacramento area and sit in Bay 101’s $60-120 LHE game for a few days, make enough money to last a month, then drive home.