Veteran poker pro Todd Terry, a mainstay of the live and online tournament scene during the late '00s and early '10s, has died at age 48 after a long illness. Terry, a Phildelphia native and former resident of Ohio and New Jersey, passed away on Tuesday from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a progressive and incurable brain disorder that belongs to the family of brain disorders also including Alzheimer's.
Terry was a practicing lawyer in New York City when his success on the real and virtual felt prompted him to pursue a full-time career as a gambling professional. Terry played with considerable success: his Hendon Mob profile credits him with more than $2.66 million in live tourney winnings, all from 2005 to 2015. The figure still ranks him in the top 800 on THM's all-time earnings list.
A WSOP Circuit ring winner and a winner of a major WPT Borgata preliminary event, Terry fell just shy of a couple of even larger live triumphs. In 2007, he finished as the runner-up in a WSOP $2,000 no-limit hold'em bracelet event won by William Durkee. Terry's second-place showing was worth $353,875. Two years later, Terry finished in second place in the 2009 Borgata Winter Open main event, earning a live career-best payday of $434,767.
Terry was perhaps most widely known in the poker world, however, as a knowledgeable and frequent poster on several online poker forums, most notably TwoPlusTwo. Over a decade of activity on the site, Terry posted more than 16,300 times, and he was widely regarded as one of the site's best contributors.
