Our Verdict:
"If they had wanted you to hold on to money, they'd have made it with handles on."
Jack Straus was known as a risk-taker and not many would have been backing him to win the WSOP 1982 Main Event when he was down to his last $500 chip.
But, such is poker, he staged one of the great fight backs to claim the then biggest prize pool in American sporting history at $520,000.
Always a flamboyant character, he continued a successful poker career in the mid-80’s in Vegas before tragically dying of a heart attack; fittingly for Straus, it occurred during a high stakes cash game.