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Henry Orenstein
ResidenceVerona, New Jersey
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)1
Money finish(es)3
Highest ITM
Main Event finish		8th, 1995
For Canadian artist, see Henry Orenstein.

Henry Orenstein (born as Henryk Orenstein circa 1925, Hrubieszów, Poland) is a poker player and entrepreneur who resides in Verona, New Jersey.

He won the $5,000 Seven-card stud tournament at the 1996 World Series of Poker (WSOP), earning $130,000 by beating fourth-place T. J. Cloutier, third-place Cyndy Violette, and runner-up Humberto Brenes. He twice had finished in the money in the $10,000 WSOP no limit Texas hold 'em main event: 12th in 1993 and 8th in 1995.

He came in 7th in the $2,500 Seven Card Stud event at the 2005 United States Poker Championship, and despite being the oldest competitor (at age 80), won his first round of NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship against one of the best cash-game players in the world, Chip Reese. Orenstein would lose in the second round to John Hennigan.

Orenstein is successful outside of his poker playing, both in poker and other pursuits. A Holocaust survivor who spent much of the end of World War II in various concentration camps, Orenstein became a toymaker who convinced Hasbro to start producing Transformers. He holds over 100 other patents, and aside from Transformers, the best-known of these inventions is U.S. Patent 5,451,054 which gave Orenstein the exclusive right in the United States to detect and display hole cards in poker games. The ability to show a player's hidden cards to an audience is one of the principal reasons that poker is so popular today.

Orenstein is the creator and an executive producer of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament on FSN. He also produces the popular TV Show High Stakes Poker, which can be seen in the United States on GSN.

As of 2009, Orensein's live poker tournament winnings exceed $200,000. He is a 2008 inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame.

Orenstein is a noted philanthropist, giving money to many causes, especially those related to Judaism. In 2002, Orenstein incorrectly claimed that Iraq had large quantities of biological and chemical weapons and was in the process of acquiring nuclear arms and that the war in Afghanistan was largely over.

Books

Orenstein wrote I Shall Live: Surviving Against All Odds 1939-1945, a memoir of his experiences during the Holocaust in Europe and his survival in five concentration camps.

Notes

  1. zczuba (June 16, 2007). "Z cyklu "Nieznani, a szkoda": Henry Orenstein". Agora SA. Retrieved ?. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. West, Justin. "An Interview With Kevin Belinkoff". PokerPages.com. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
  3. Hendon Mob tournament results
  4. Pokernews.com: Poker Hall of Fame 2008 Inductees Announced
  5. National Review Online
  6. Kent, Bill. "Holding His Own." New York Times. 28 May, 1995.
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