Standout Poker Pro And Lawyer Todd Terry Passes Away At Age 48The Accomplished Player Suffered From A Rare Neurological Disease |
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The poker world was saddened to hear of the passing of Todd Terry, a 48-year-old former lawyer who found success on the high-stakes poker tournament trail.
Terry, who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, graduated Magna Cum Laude with the highest honors with a bachelor’s in applied mathematics from Harvard University, and earned his law degree in similar fashion from NYU. In between high-profile stints in the courtrooms of Manhattan, he would occasionally make trips to Atlantic City poker rooms.
After a few big scores, including a $96,525 WSOP Circuit win at Harrah’s, Terry gave up his day job and started traveling the tournament circuit. He nearly added a WSOP bracelet to his Circuit ring in 2007, finishing runner-up in a $2,000 buy-in no-limit event for $353,875.
Then in 2009, he took second at the Borgata Winter Open for a career-best $434,767 score, before taking third at the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker main event later that summer for another $231,300. The next year he final tabled the WPT Hollywood Poker Open.
In total, Terry racked up $2.3 million in live tournament earnings, along with another million won online. His last tournament cash came in 2015 before he stepped away from the game.
During his time as a poker pro, Terry was outspoken in the community and was even one of the four players who filed a lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker in the wake of Black Friday to retrieve nearly $150 million in player funds.
Terry passed away Tuesday, May 17 in Los Angeles, having fought with an incurable neurological disease for nearly a decade. He is survived by his wife Andrea.
His family has requested that he be remembered with donations to either the Brain Support Network or the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.
This gives me chills. I was walking in Madrid and started thinking of Todd, 3 days ago so I went home and looked up his Twitter and saw his wife tweet his last tweet in 2017 that he was sick, I had no idea. He must of tapped me on the shoulder on his way up to meet Gods. RIP TT pic.twitter.com/8O7AkZB1Vq
— Jason Koon (@JasonKoon) May 20, 2022
Todd Terry was my absolute favorite on 2+2 & an all around nice guy. He will be surely missed.
Can't imagine what it must be like for a man who prides himself on his mind as a lawyer & quick-witted individual to progressively lose that mind from a tragic rare condition. RIP— Cards&Crypto (@holdemandcrypto) May 20, 2022
RIP to Todd Terry, an OG tournament grinder and prolific poster on 2+2. Todd was always curious and courteous, no matter how much flak he caught for posting crazy hands. We’ll miss you on the felt man.
— TonyDunstTV (@tonydunsttv) May 20, 2022
RIP Todd Terry. I’ll never forgot for those 2+2 posts, those ridiculous 3 bets, Those meals (always an adventure), friendship, tourney break needles and more.
— Christian Harder (@realcharder30) May 20, 2022
Sigh, just read the obit. Incredibly sad. First time I ever played with him he made a wild shove on me near the bubble of a Bellagio prelim, and I nitrolled him with AJ or AQ. @TWKsicem was there and later was like “dude that was Todd Terry, why did you take so long to call?!”…
— Tom West (@sbrounder) May 20, 2022
So sad to hear about todd terry knew of his issues shortly after he left the scene was sad to see one of the best minds just be cheated out of what would have been a great career. Def top 5 posters on 2p2 I learned most from in my early career
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) May 20, 2022
RIP bro, u were a good dude, and now I almost forgive u for correctly folding AQ in the BB when I shipped 20 BBs UTG in Partouche
— Alex Bolotin (@AlexBolotin) May 20, 2022
Oh, man. Sad news indeed. He was a sick player (in the best way).
— Matt Matros (@Matt_Matros) May 20, 2022
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