	{"id":24122,"date":"2014-07-02T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerstrategy.com\/it\/addio-grande-chad\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:23:23","slug":"addio-grande-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerstrategy.com\/it\/news\/world-of-poker\/Addio-grande-Chad_85187\/","title":{"rendered":"Addio, grande Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><table border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-origin.pokerstrategy.com\/2014\/07\/02\/cb.jpg\" alt=\"Chad Brown\" title=\"Chad Brown\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;\"><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Chad stremato dalla malattia<\/em><em><br><\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p><strong>Chad Brown<\/strong> non ce l'ha fatta. Il grande pokerista di <strong>New York City<\/strong> &egrave; morto poche ore fa nel proprio letto d'ospedale, dopo una lunga e massacrante lotta contro il nemico pi&ugrave; terribile che si possa affrontare: un <strong>iposarcoma <\/strong>dello stomaco (tumore rarissimo) che lo tormentava ormai da vari anni.<\/p><p>Dopo la notizia terribile della scomparsa di <strong>Johannes Strassmann<\/strong>, ritrovato poi senza vita sul greto di un fiume dalla polizia slovena, un'altra <strong>giornata nera<\/strong> per il mondo del poker, che perde uno dei personaggi pi&ugrave; amati dai giovani aspiranti professionisti.<\/p><p>Per il suo bellissimo <strong>sorriso<\/strong>, forse, oppure per la relazione con la supersexy giocatrice<strong> Vanessa Rousso<\/strong> - che &egrave; stata sua moglie e che fino all'ultimo gli &egrave; stata vicino. O, forse, perch&eacute; Chad incarnava i <strong>sogni <\/strong>di ognuno di noi, lui che aveva cominciato come umile <strong>cameriere <\/strong>in una caffetteria italiana a New York, sognando di fare l'<strong>attore<\/strong>, ed era riuscito a diventare ricco e famoso solo grazie alla propria abilit&agrave;, sfondando nel mondo del poker.<\/p><h2>Una lunga battaglia<\/h2><table border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-origin.pokerstrategy.com\/2014\/06\/30\/chad_brown.jpg\" alt=\"Chad Brown\" title=\"Chad Brown\" width=\"250\" height=\"262\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;\"><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Vogliamo ricordarti con questo<br>meraviglioso sorriso<br><\/em><em><\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p>La vita gli ha concesso tante cose meravigliose, prima di venire a riprendersele tutte prima del tempo, a soli <strong>52 anni<\/strong>, nel modo pi&ugrave; orribile. Nel 2011 l'intervento chirurgico con l'asportazione della massa tumorale, che per&ograve; si ripresenta ben presto e in forma ancora pi&ugrave; grave. Ormai fisicamente <strong>irriconoscibile<\/strong>, il coraggioso Chad partecipa anche a qualche torneo live (come l'<strong>EPT di Monaco <\/strong>del 2013), prima di arrendersi al fatto di non avere le forze per continuare a svolgere il mestiere che pi&ugrave; amava al mondo: quello di <strong>pokerista<\/strong>.<\/p><p>Ma non ha <strong>mai <\/strong>mollato, tanto da diventare un'icona di <strong>coraggio <\/strong>nella malattia, cos&igrave; come era stato un'icona di <strong>speranza <\/strong>e <strong>tenacia <\/strong>quando era sano. \"<em>Il modo in cui sto affrontando tutto questo<\/em>\", aveva dichiarato, \"<em>&egrave; lo stesso con cui gestisco una mano di poker. Ci sono tantissime mosse corrette che puoi fare, e forse perderai ugualmente. Ma anche se dovesse finire in questo modo, per me sar&agrave; accettabile perch&eacute; sapr&ograve; che comunque ho fatto il massimo possibile per darmi almeno una chance di vincere<\/em>\".<\/p><p>Quest'uomo cos&igrave; coraggioso non c'&egrave; pi&ugrave;. Se n'&egrave; andato <strong>stamattina<\/strong>, stremato dal dolore fisico e dalla sofferenza, indossando al polso il <strong>braccialetto <\/strong>che la direzione delle<strong> World Series <\/strong>gli aveva dedicato<strong> ad honorem<\/strong> su suggerimento dell'amico attore<strong> James Woods<\/strong>. Quel braccialetto che aveva sognato a lungo in vita e che indossare finalmente l'aveva fatto <strong>sorridere <\/strong>come un bambino, pur su un letto d'ospedale.<\/p><p><strong>Addio<\/strong>, <strong>Chad<\/strong>. Speriamo che, ovunque tu sia adesso, ti sia concesso ritornare a fare ci&ograve; che pi&ugrave; di ogni cosa amavi fare: <strong>giocare a poker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Il mitico pokerista \u00e8 deceduto poche ore fa, stroncato da un cancro allo stomaco che fino all'ultimo aveva cercato coraggiosamente di combattere. Insignito del braccialetto WSOP ad honorem, se n'\u00e8 andato mentre lo indossava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-of-poker"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Addio, grande Chad - PokerStrategy IT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pokerstrategy.com\/it\/news\/world-of-poker\/Addio-grande-Chad_85187\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Addio, grande Chad - PokerStrategy IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Il mitico pokerista \u00e8 deceduto poche ore fa, stroncato da un cancro allo stomaco che fino all&#039;ultimo aveva cercato coraggiosamente di combattere. 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