“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.