![]() In addition to his poker and pool accomplishments, Ciaffone excelled at bridge, backgammon, and chess. In 1965, Bob took second place in the 1965 Lansing City Championship. Bob ran the first rack, but Mosconi came back to beat him. According to a PokerNews profile on Ciaffone, in 1964 he was selected to represent the Saginaw area to play an exhibition match against one of pool's all-time best players, Willie Mosconi. "When you are handy with a cuestick, the money comes easy, and you have ample opportunity to get involved with other forms of gambling,” Ciaffone once said.Ĭiaffone would later attend Michigan State where he won a number of college pool championships. He would attend the University of Notre Dame but despite being the highest-ranked student on entrance exams, he eventually dropped out after spending too much time playing pool. A year later, their family relocated to Sagniaw, Michigan, and by the time he was 15 he was excelling at several different kinds of games. Last week, the poker world received the sad news that Bob Ciaffone, an accomplished poker author and longtime Card Player Magazine columnist, passed away at the age of 81.īorn in Brooklyn, New York on December 10, 1940, Ciaffone learned to play poker decades earlier at the age of nine after being taught by his mother. ![]()
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