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  Bobby Baldwin: The Owl - World Series of Poker Player Bio - Associated Content
Bobby Baldwin was the youngest player to win the World Series of Poker from 1978 to 1980.
Bobby Baldwin, known as “The Owl” at the poker table, first tried his hand at the game in 1963.
In 1987, Bobby Baldwin headed The Mirage and in 1998 moved on to the Bellagio.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/56976/bobby_baldwin_the_owl_world_series.html   (554 words)

  
 Cigar Aficionado | Archives | Power Players
Baldwin calls this big-budget, big-balls, strategically intensive type of truck racing "poker on wheels." • But it's not the only form of poker the 56-year-old father of two enjoys, nor is the desert wilderness his natural habitat.
Baldwin felt so attached to the project that when Wynn's Mirage Resorts was taken over by mogul Kirk Kerkorian's MGM Grand, in 2000, just 17 months after the Bellagio opened its doors, Baldwin chose not to go with Wynn to develop a new place.
Baldwin's lips curl up as he describes the 88,000 truckloads of dirt that need to be moved to allow for foundations to be poured.
www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,1828,00.html   (2628 words)

  
 reviewjournal.com -- Sports - Casino executives Baldwin, McBeath set for SCORE race
Driver Bobby Baldwin and co-driver Bill McBeath catch air Thursday during a practice run for the SCORE Las Vegas Terrible's Cup II, scheduled for tonight and Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Baldwin is president of MGM Mirage Resorts, which owns the Bellagio, where McBeath is president and chief operating officer.
Baldwin, 56, is a relative newcomer to the sport.
www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2006/Jul-28-Fri-2006/sports/8747571.html   (604 words)

  
 Legends of Poker: Bobby Baldwin | Poker News
Bobby Hoff, the 1979 WSOP Championship runner-up, and himself an excellent no-limit player, says Baldwin is the "best no-limit player I've ever played with." Bob Ciaffone, who recalls playing regularly with Bobby in Dallas in the mid 1970's, adds, "He's brilliant.
Baldwin continues to play in live cash games, often with friends like Doyle Brunson, and Lyle Berman, but has spent the bulk of his time working in the casino and gaming industry.
Bobby Baldwin was elected into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2003, securing his legacy as one of the greatest poker players of all time.
www.pokernews.com /news/2005/05/poker-legends-bobby-baldwin.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets (Great Champions of Poker)
Baldwin's life is pretty interesting, and you'll find that his road to becoming the WSOP Champion is quite surprising.
I know Baldwin is rumored to play in high stakes side games from time to time still - I'm sure that's probably been part of his job to entertain clients, but why he left the poker scene is a question I'd like to see answered from a professional/personal viewpoint.
Bobby Baldwin was a big-bet winner and was respected and feared by everyone we played, including all the "legends" like Doyle.
top-books.org /book/1580421296   (499 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin - Poker Legend
Brunson once remarked that he was shocked Bobby Baldwin didn't sustain an arm injury from his habit of pushing chips into the pot so often.
Baldwin wrote the section on limit hold'em, a game at which he excelled.
Bobby Baldwin then showed that he would succeed at pretty much whatever he put his mind to, and today he is the CEO of the Mirage Corporation!
www.online-poker-insider.com /articles/opi-bobby-baldwin-poker-legend.html   (262 words)

  
 NHRA News: Baldwin remembered at memorial service (09/26/2001)
Friends and family of fallen Top Fuel racer Bobby Baldwin joined together Sept. 26 to remember, in sometimes tearful and often funny stories, a man described as a proud father, a dedicated drag racer, a guy who loved a cold beer after a hard day's work, and an all-around fun guy and good friend.
The memorial service for Baldwin, who passed away Sept. 23, was held at the Hines Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Fairplex in Pomona, Calif., where Baldwin often worked and had many friends.
Baldwin's dragster and tractor-trailer were on display outside the pavilion as the guests filed in.
www.nhra.com /2001/news/September/092604.html   (586 words)

  
 WSOP Profile On Bobby Baldwin - Gambling-Win.com
It was in 1978 that Bobby Baldwin made history by becoming the youngest person ever to win the main event at the World Series of Poker.
He went on to serve as head of the Mirage in their late 1980s and a decade later moved on to be named president of the Bellagio.
There is little question that Bobby "The Owl" Baldwin is one of the most prominent citizens of Las Vegas, one who has pulled off the rarest trick of all: to segue from a hugely successful career as a professional gambler to an equally successful career as an executive.
www.gambling-win.com /profile-bobby-baldwin.html   (458 words)

  
 Poker playes / WSOP winners / 1970-1980 / Bobby Baldwin: 'Don't Take Your Troubles Out On Your Bankroll'
Baldwin’s major wins were all from 1977 to 1979.
WSOP winners and poker players like to write books on their proffession but the author of “Bobby Baldwin’s Winning Poker Secrts” is not Bobby Baldwin himself.
One thing can be said about Baldwin’s style and it was said by Doyle: “And he’s so superaggressive that I sometimes wonder if he doesn’t get a sore arm from shoving al his checks to the center of the pot so often.
www.launchpoker.com /players/wsop_winners/1970_1980/-bobby-baldwin-   (452 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin - Poker, Bingo, Sports Book - Ixgames Online Gambling Guide
Bobby Baldwin has won four Golden bracelets from the World Series Of Poker in the 1970s.
After winning several world championships in the WSOP in 1970s, Bobby Baldwin was soon known as an infrequent but fearsome player.
Also known as 'The Owl', Baldwin was famous in poker history as the first youngest WSOP world champion- when he won the 1978 WSOP- followed by Stu Ungar in 1980 and Phil Hellmuth in 1989.
www.ixgames.com /bobby_baldwin   (834 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin - Poker Pro
Bobby rose to fame with several tournament wins in the late seventies.
Baldwin now oversees additional resorts added through the Mandalay Resort Group buyout as well as the previous Wynn properties.
Bobby was inducted to the Poker Hall of Fame in 2003.
www.poker.com /professionalplayers/baldwin.htm   (439 words)

  
 Drag Racing Online - At The Finish Line: Ike Hamma Vol. III No. 8 August 2001
Bobby Baldwin, who passed away recently due to an aneurism at age 53, probably lived the life that most drag race fans could only dream about it.
To the best of my recollection, Baldwin had no backing at all during his career save for what he had in his pocket and whatever small associate backing he could get.
Baldwin started racing in about 1987 or '88, and predictably, the going was tough.
www.dragracingonline.com /finishline/bobby_baldwin.html   (629 words)

  
 James Baldwin's Foreward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
This was certainly due, in part, to the climate of that momentous day, but it was also due to a kind of intelligence of anguish living behind Bobby's smoky eyes.
I have suggested that Bobby's time was more hopeful than my own; but I do not wish to be misunderstood concerning the nature, the meaning, and the cruelty of that hope.
I do not mean to suggest that the bulk of American people had undergone a "change of heart" as concerns their relationship to their darker brothers by the time Bobby Seale came down the pike.
www.bobbyseale.com /baldwin.html   (667 words)

  
 Texas Poker - Bobby Baldwin - Crandall Addington
He came closest in the 1978, where he was felled in the final by the game’s rising star, Oklahoman Bobby Baldwin.
With the event being recorded for television for the first time in five years, the old boys network got together and decided a little showmanship for the good of the fans would be in order.
Baldwin was the champion; for Addington, other honors awaited.
www.wisehandpoker.com /Handofday/archive/dandy-crandall.php   (595 words)

  
 Bobby Balwin's Winning Poker Secrets - Caro
In the spirit of Doyle Brunson’s, Poker Wisdom of a Champion, comes this fascinating account of former world poker champion Bobby Baldwin’s meteoric rise to the championship.
Bobby Baldwin’s Winning Poker Secrets covers everything, from his early days playing poker in dangerous roadhouses to his high-stakes poker games against other poker legends.
Throughout this book, Bobby Baldwin intersperses important lessons on what makes a great player successful, how he approaches the game, how to build a bankroll, and most importantly, how to keep it.
www.chesscenter.com /pokershop/item871.htm   (170 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin - Crandall Addington - WSOP Finals
Bobby was the more aggressive of the two and over a marathon session he asserted control.
With a smile hidden by a big cigar, he leaned across Bobby to the masses of chips that had collected and liberated one, dropping it on his cards.
Baldwin became the youngest champion in Series history by over a decade.
www.wisehandpoker.com /Handofday/archive/wsop-final-hands-1978.php   (562 words)

  
 Global-Investor Bookshop : Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets - by Bobby Baldwin and Mike Caro
Interspersed with important lessons on what makes a great player tick, this is the fascinating account of 1978 World Champion Bobby Baldwin's early career playing poker in roadhouses and his meteoric rise to the championship.
Baldwin and Mike Caro, both of whom are co-authors of the classic Doyle Brunson's Super System, cover the common mistakes average players make at seven poker variations and the dynamic winning concepts they must employ to win.
If you need bulk copies of Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets, or are interested in opening a corporate account, please contact us.
books.global-investor.com /books/23483.htm?ginPtrCode=00000&identifier=   (221 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Bobby Baldwin": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Brunson himself was at the table, and Bobby Baldwin and Puggy Pearson, all of them winners, in their turn,...
Bellagio president Bobby Baldwin was the 1978 World Champion and played in a $4,000-$8,000 game with Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese, and a few others...
Players are more selective Bobby Baldwin, former World Champion of Poker and now president of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, reflected on his early days...
www.amazon.com /phrase/Bobby-Baldwin   (538 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Bobby Baldwin grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In 1982 he became a consultant for the Golden Nugget casino and was named president of the casino in 1984.
In 2003, Bobby Baldwin was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
www.allonlinepokersites.com /great-poker-players/baldwin   (176 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin
Almost all of the city's public big-money poker games take place in Bellagio's upscale poker room, but when Mirage Resorts Chief Executive Officer Bobby Baldwin wants to play against some of his longtime poker chums, he arranges a table at Sam's Town.
Baldwin, a former World Series of Poker champ and one of the city's top-paid gaming executives at better than $7 million in total 2002 compensation, was in action last Sunday, 24 hours after the game began, dressed innocuously in his own baseball cap.
Baldwin, Brunson and Reese go way back, and when the three Las Vegans get an opportunity to play with big bankroll players, Bellagio's poker boss, Doug Dalton, makes the arrangements with Sam's Town.
pokerworks.com /article-161.html   (1027 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin S Winning Poker Secrets Great Champions Of Poker - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Bobby Baldwin S Winning Poker Secrets Great Champions Of Poker - Direct Textbook
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www.directtextbook.com /title/bobby-baldwin-s-winning-poker-secrets-great-champions-of-poker   (110 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin Professional Poker Player, Gallery of Champions WSOP
Bobby "The Owl" Baldwin is a professional poker player as well as a top
Baldwin became CEO and President of the announced Project City Center,
Baldwin and his playing style are the subject of a book entitled Bobby
www.pokerplayerpress.com /Gallery-BobbyBaldwin.html   (300 words)

  
 Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets (great Champions Of Poker) Summary
This is the fascinating account of former world champion Bobby Baldwin's early career playing poker in roadhouses and against other poker legends and his meteoric rise to the championship.
Mike Caro, a poker great himself, and Baldwin, both of whom are co-authors of the classic Doyle Brunson's Super System, cover the common mistakes average players make at seven poker variations and the dynamic winning concepts they must employ to win.
Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets (Great Champions of Poker)/ by: Mike Caro
www.shvoong.com /f/books/178141-bobby-baldwin-s-winning-poker-secrets-great-champions-poker   (159 words)

  
 1978 WSOP Winner Bobby Baldwin
At the bottom of this page you will find a short bio of 1978 WSOP winner Bobby Baldwin.
His major wins include four WSOP bracelets, all won from 1977 to 1979.
In 1999 - 2000 he was also the Chief Financial Officer of Mirage Resorts under Steve Wynn; in 2000, upon the merger of Mirage Resorts and MGM Grand, he became the Chief Executive Officer of the Mirage Resorts subsidiary of MGM Mirage.
www.freerollhaven.com /bobbybaldwin.html   (337 words)

  
 BURNandTURN.com :: Legendary Poker Hands - 1981 WSOP Bobby Baldwin vs. Perry Green
Baldwin is first to act and he checks his set.
Green on the other hand comes in with a $40,000 bet.
Baldwin quickly came over the top and put Green all-in if he wanted to.
www.burnandturn.com /poker/school/hands/legendary/1981/WSOP/baldwin-green   (240 words)

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