Considering what we know about A.R.

fromBoardwalk Empire, this could look like its out of character, but A.R.s been winning.

Winners keep a good poker face.

No one takes your markers when you dont pay out.

OnBoardwalk Empire, Arnold Rothstein is played by Michael Stuhlbarg.

People say Rothstein was the Moses of the Jewish gangsters.

Rothstein was also called Mr. Big, The Fixer, The Man Uptown and The Big Bankroll.

He also put the fix in at the 1921 Travers Stakes horse race.

The Brain was convicted of neither.

F. Scott Fitzgerald based the character Meyer Wolfsheim on Arnold Rothstein inThe Great Gatsby.

Because of the first name, most people assume it was based on Meyer Lansky.

Arnold Rothstein went in his fathers business.

Abraham Rothstein was also a gangster-businessman.

Arnold Rothstein started casinos in Manhattan, distributed drugs and was a bootlegger who also ran speakeasies.

Rothstein was a New York crime boss who did his dealings at the restaurant Lindys on 49th Street.

He saw the early potential in Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Jack Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz.

Luciano said Rothstein taught me how to dress.

He showed me how to act like a gentleman.

The Brain was the CEO of New Yorks mob business, but ultimately he lost to a stacked deck.

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Arnold Rothstein was born in New York City.

Arnold Rothstein was supposed to take over his old mans legit businesses, but liked the shady ones better.

He dropped out of school and lent his head for figures to his fathers old associates.

Rothstein masterminded huge bond robberies, once turning over $25 million in bonds for a 10% cut.

Rothstein was also a fence who specialized in jewelry and other high-end swag.

Most World Series had seven games, but you could better roll a bet over nine games.

Rothstein bet on the underdog, the National Leagues Cincinnati Reds.

The series went to eight games on Redland Field and Comiskey Park and Rothstein made a small fortune.

The next year it exploded in what was called the Black Sox Scandal.

The White Sox players confessed, but were acquitted.

The players for banned for life.

Prosecutors could find no evidence linking Rothstein to the affair, and he was never indicted.

I dont doubt that Attell used my name to put it over.

Thats been done by smarter men than Abe.

Rothstein probably actually hedged his bets.

He also gave people a place to drink, opening speakeasies all over New York.

Rothstein won $500,000 on the first Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight championship bout.

He raked in $800,000 when Sidereal came in at good odds at Aqueduct on July 4, 1921.

Rothstein bet $150,000.

Grey Lag was scratched from the race just before post time and Rothstein won more than $500,000.

He had $6,500 in his wallet.

When the cops tried to get Rothstein to drop dime on his killers he said My mother did it.

His mother, Edith, had an alibi.

Arnold Rothstein died on Election Day, Nov. 24, 1928, at the Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan.

If he lived he would have won the $500,000 he laid on Herbert Hoover.

Gambler George Hump McManus was arrested, but the charges didnt stick.

Rothstein died in police custody and his corporation was busted out and spread among the other mobs.

When Rothstein died he took Tammany Hall with him.

Fiorello La Guardia got himself elected mayor on a promise to clean up New York City.

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