For Canadian

Canada

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 artist, see Henry Orenstein

Henry Orenstein (painter)

Henry Orenstein was a Canadian artist, specializing in easel paintings, murals and set design. He was mentioned in Barry Lord's The History of Painting in Canada: Toward a People's Art. He went on to become a set designer for the CBC in Halifax, Nova Scotia.-Family:He was married to Joan...

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Henry Orenstein (born as Henryk Orenstein circa

Circa

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 1925, Hrubieszów

Hrubieszów

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, Poland

Poland

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) is a poker

Poker

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 player and entrepreneur who resides in Verona, New Jersey

Verona, New Jersey

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, United States

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He won the $5,000 Seven-card stud

Seven-card stud

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 tournament at the 1996 World Series of Poker

1996 World Series of Poker

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 (WSOP), earning $130,000 by beating fourth-place T. J. Cloutier

T. J. Cloutier

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, third-place Cyndy Violette

Cyndy Violette

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, and runner-up Humberto Brenes

Humberto Brenes

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. He twice had finished in the money in the $10,000 WSOP no limit

Betting (poker)

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 Texas hold 'em

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 main event: 12th in 1993

1993 World Series of Poker

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 and 8th in 1995

1995 World Series of Poker

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He came in 7th in the $2,500 Seven Card Stud event at the 2005 United States Poker Championship

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, and despite being the oldest competitor (at age 80), won his first round of NBC

NBC

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's National Heads-Up Poker Championship

National Heads-Up Poker Championship

-2006:- 2007 :-2008:In additional to the poker professionals, several poker-playing celebrities from other fields were invited: Gabe Kaplan, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Tilly, Shannon Elizabeth, Jason Alexander and Orel Hershiser. Also invited was Alisha Kunze of Greensburg, Indiana, who won her seat...

 against one of the best cash-game players in the world, Chip Reese

Chip Reese

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. Orenstein would lose in the second round to John Hennigan

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Orenstein is successful outside of his poker playing. A Holocaust survivor who spent much of the end of World War II

World War II

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 in various concentration camps, Orenstein became a toymaker who convinced Hasbro

Hasbro

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 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

Hole cam

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 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

Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament

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 on FSN

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. He also produces the popular TV Show High Stakes Poker

High Stakes Poker

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, 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

Poker Hall of Fame

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. Orenstein was also inducted to the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.

Orenstein is a noted philanthropist

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, giving money to many causes. Circa 1984 the US government built an eleven story building for low income families, it is named the Lejb and Golda Orenstein Building in honor of Orensteins parents.(see photo Orenstein and Mayor Ed Koch in "I Shall Live")Henry Orenstein paid for air conditioners in all apartments and security. There is also a Lejb and Golda Orenstein Building in Kiryat Ono,Israel.which consists of housing units and recreational facilities.Orenstein contributed most of money towards this project.
Orenstein has his own chapter at Metropolian Council for the Jewish Poor in New York. CEO William Rapfogel. Over the past thirty three years Orensteinn has helped thousands of poor New Yorkers to pay their rent, assist with their dental bills,hearing aid bills, surgical supplies etc.

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.

Orenstein also wrote Abram which is the life story of Abram Silberstein who emigrated to then Palestine in 1934. He enlisted in the British army in 1939 and rose from the rank of private to rank of Major. He was great help to Ben Gurion . Abram was chosen to be the best book written about World War II. Orenstein received a medal, honorary certificate and 2500 Israeli Shekels.