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Scariest player to ever get 4th: Bobby Brazil, 1973.

Thought he looked like a really sleazy character on the WSOP 1973 Main Event video, so I did a little research to see if he was still around etc. Turns out he was in jail until early 1990s, due to kidnapping, repeatedly raping and then murdering a young girl.

He's now dead.

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He's a bad, bad man. I recall playing limit hold 'em with him in the early nineties at the Horseshoe. Rumour had it that he was convicted of a heinous felony at the trial court level but he managed to get his conviction flipped on appeal.

I did not lip him in the game. Moss was in that game, too. So was "Jesse," a tall, thin, saturnine looking man that I still see around from time to time. But I never learned his last name. I may post more about this over in EDF, as it relates to another recent post I made about my own degeneracy over there.

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Brazil was one of the 'Whiz Kids' in the '70's along with Stuie, Baldwin (who quickly distanced himself), Joey Hawthorne and Crazy Kid, Richard Schwartz. Don't remember the 'heinous crime' part, but Brazil was in and out of rehabs, finally got straight and then won an insurance claim and got a 'Hot Shot' from his friend and some Ho's and OD'd in a room at the Horseshoe in 2000. He was scary in a psycho kind of way, but not really violent except to slap a woman around from time to time. Brunson and the boys used to put him in action all the time, and/or take a piece of him when they could get him down off the ceiling.

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Actually,... think it was 1999, and, oh yah... Spilotro used to put him in at the Stardust in the day and Brazil's ex-wife, Dianna, was the Payout Manager at the 2006 WSOP. That is all.