Cliff Josephy doesn’t have any early memories of playing poker as a child. The chip leader and oldest player at this year’s World Series of Poker final table didn’t start playing until he was a 37-year old stockbroker -- and it all happened after he watched the 2003 World Series of Poker on an airplane television.
“I didn’t even know the game,” Josephy said. “I had never heard of no-limit hold’em before. I was on a JetBlue airplane watching it for a few hours on a flight from New York to Florida to visit my parents.”
Later, when Josephy, walked into his dad’s office, his father was on his computer, playing online poker.