One year ago this week, the poker world lost one its all-time greatest ambassadors — Mike Sexton. The long-time WPT commentator made a positive impact on the game in ways few others have.
One of the All-Time Poker Greats
Although Sexton is best known to the mainstream poker community as Vince Van Patten's co-host during World Poker Tour broadcasts on Fox Sports Regional (Travel Channel during the first season) for 15 years, there was much more to his poker stardom. He reached the Poker Hall of Fame in 2009, won a WSOP bracelet in 1989 and cashed in 72 World Series of Poker events, and originally helped co-found partypoker in the early 2000s before returning to the poker site as chairman in 2017.