Jimmy Casella

Fiore Casella, known as Jimmy, born on 3 June 1924 and died on 10 August 1976, was a prominent poker player at the World Series of Poker in the 1970s. In the 1971 series he won the Limit Razz event, but his greatest success came in 1974, when he won the Seven Card Razz and the Seven-Card Stud world championships, earning 76,225 dollars for the three events. With those wins he became the first player in WSOP history to win the first two events of a single World Series. After the 1974 series he had no further cash in a major poker tournament of that era, and he died of a drug overdose on 10 August 1976. He was the uncle of the writer and comic Elizabeth Beckwith and of the philosopher Francis J. Beckwith.