Nick wrote:
Ask Johnny Chan. :-)

So Nick knows poker. Johnny Chan became famous in the late 1980s,
winning the championship event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in
two consecutive years (1987 and 1988). He almost won a third
consecutive title, but finished in 2nd place in 1989 to Phil Hellmuth.

Jerry Buss, an avid poker player and owner of the Los Angeles Lakers,
promised Chan an NBA championship ring if he could win three in a row.