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Crandell Addington one of the founders of the World Series of Poker, is one of the "old school" poker players who cropped up from Texas. He was born in 1938 in San Antonio. The WSOP logo. ...
Also known as "Dandy" because he was always well-dressed in a suit, Addington played the poker circuit in Texas during the 1960s. In 1969 he won the Texas Gamblers Convention in Reno, Nev. It was there that he and the other players came up with the idea for the WSOP.
Addington was already making millions of dollars in other business ventures by the time he was making final tables at the WSOP. He had invested in oil, so for him, the game was about the fun and prestige of winning rather than the pot size.
Addington made the final table of the WSOP Main Event almost every year from 1972 to 1979, but never won it. The closest he came was second on two occasions. He lost to Johnny Moss in '74 and Bobby Baldwin in '78. Johnny Moss (1907-1997) was a professional poker player. ...
He left his professional poker career in the 1980s to put his business degree to work. Over the course of his 40 years in business, while also playing poker, he founded or operated successful businesses ranging from chemical manufacturing to oil and gas exploration.
He is currently working with Phoenix Biotechnology, a company whose focus is on research efforts to develop products to treat cancer.
In 2005, Addington took another shot at a WSOP win when he returned to Vegas to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. He didn’t do nearly as well as he did back in the 1970s.
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