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unusual facts about Hamid Dastmalchi


Hamid Dastmalchi

Dastmalchi was involved in a legal dispute in 1999 with Binion's Horseshoe after the new management would not let him cash in over $800,000 in chips he had won prior to a legal battle in which Becky Binion Behnen replaced Jack Binion as the head of the casino.


Ted Forrest

Ted also owns one WSOP championship bracelet that formerly belonged to Hamid Dastmalchi, which he purchased from Dastmalchi after the 1992 World Series of Poker champion complained that the bracelet wasn't worth what the Binion family claimed.


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