Jimmy Casella

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Jimmy Casella
  Personal information  
Date of birth June 3, 1924
date of death August 10, 1976
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 41,225
Total prize money $ 76,225
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 3
Best main event no cash

Fiore "Jimmy" Casella (born June 3, 1924 - August 10, 1976 ) was an American poker player .

Poker career

Career

Casella was from New York and moved to Las Vegas in the 1950s . He made three money in prestigious poker tournaments, each time winning a tournament in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. At the second edition of the WSOP in 1971 , Casella won the Limit Razz variant and received $ 10,000 in prize money and his first bracelet . Three years later, he won the first and third events of the 1974 World Series of Poker, securing two more bracelets and more than $ 65,000.

In total, Casella has earned around $ 75,000 in poker in live tournaments. In August 1976, he died at the age of 52 years to cancer .

Bracelet overview

Casella cashed three times at the WSOP, winning a bracelet each time:

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
1971 0.1000 Limit razz 10 10,000
1974 10,000 Limit 7 Card Stud 09 41,225
0.1000 Limit razz 36 25,000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b From the Poker Vaults: Jimmy Casella on pokernews.com from July 2, 2009, accessed April 5, 2016 (English)
  2. ↑ a b Jimmy Casella in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 5, 2016 (English)
  3. ↑ 2nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1971 ($ 1,000 Limit Razz) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 5, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ 5th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1974 ($ 10,000 Limit 7 Card Stud) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 5, 2016 (English)
  5. ↑ 5th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1974 ($ 1,000 Razz) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 5, 2016 (English)
  6. ↑ Jimmy Casella in the World Series of Poker database, accessed April 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Casella, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casella, Fiore (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1924
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1976