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...most celebrated real ones: the late Nick Forzelli, son of a Syrian hop-seller, who once bet $327,000 on a horse to win, was reputed to have won and lost $1,000,000 three times in his career; Nick ("The Greek") Dandolas, craps, lowball and faro player, friend of Jack Dempsey...
Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
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