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Killed at the
poker table - the fixer is finalized
Arnold Rothstein was
a very famous American gambler and reputed to be a
major
criminal underworld mastermind. He
had many nicknames, Mr Big, The Big Bankroll, the
Brain, the Man Uptown, and of course, the
Fixer. He was know to all as the man who,
through his connections, could literally fix
anything.
Many thought that he
was the man who "fixed" the 1919
Baseball World Series. It was alleged that
Rothstein paid several key Chicago White Sox
players around $80,000 to throw the game. This was
a tremendous amount of money at the time, and the
White Sox did lose the World Series.
Rothstein was
obsessed with gambling. In September, 1928 he
played poker for three days solid in one of
the most well known big time poker games on
Broadway. He lost heavily, running up a
poker debt of over $320,000, more than a fortune
in 1928!
But the Fixer
refused to pay! He claimed that the game had been
rigged, that the Fixer had been fixed himself.
On November 4th of
that year, Rothstein was killed at the Park
Central Hotel while playing poker at a
private game there. The prime suspects were two
players in the so called rigged poker game.
However, the case was never officially solved.
