Jay Heimowitz

Jay B. Heimowitz, born on 26 December 1937, is an American poker player from Bethel, New York, and one of the original players who helped establish the Mayfair Club as a premier poker house. He was raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where his father Morris managed a bar and bet on horse racing and his mother Essie worked at a book bindery. He started playing poker for baseball cards at the age of nine, joined the US Army and by the time he left at 21 had won about 10,000 dollars playing against fellow servicemen, money he invested in a beer company that he later sold to Budweiser. He has attended the World Series of Poker since 1975 and has won six bracelets, and he is one of only four players, with Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Billy Baxter, to have won a bracelet in four different decades. He won a Poker After Dark title on his sole appearance, earning 120,000 dollars, and his 43 WSOP cashes account for 1,526,581 dollars.