of the morning, Dandolos felt tired and called an end to the game. The Texan accused him of chickening out while the going was good. Dandolos then called for a new deck of cards, shuffled them and asked the Texan if he wanted to cut the cards (high card wins) one time, for double or quit. The Texan declined and they went home. Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman also met Dandolos, according to the autobiographical Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. Dandolos explained how he won big not by playing the tables, but by knowing the odds at the tables and betting against others who have superstitious beliefs about the outcome. He then relied on his reputation to bet against others. In Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out, the author attributes this gambling wisdom to Dandolos: "Never bet on anything that can talk." Later life Near the end of his life, Dandolos was near-broke and playing $5 limit draw poker games in Gardena, California. When asked by a fellow player how he could once play for millions and now be playing for such small stakes, Dandolos supposedly replied, "Hey, it's action, isn't it?". Death He died on Christmas Day in 1966 and was a charter inductee of the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979. Legacy It's estimated that he won and lost over $500 million in his lifetime. He himself claimed that he went from rags to riches over 73 times. He donated over $20 million to education and charity. A book by Ted Thackrey was published in 1968 titled Gambling Secrets of Nick the Greek. A novel about Dandolos' life was written by Harry Mark Petrakis in 1978 titled Nick the Greek. A song about Dandolos titled "The Great Dandolos" was included in 2014 Vigilante, a record by a Greek band called Planet of Zeus. In popular culture In the Damon Runyon short story, "Romance in the Roaring Forties", Dandolos is mentioned by name, as a guest at the Prohibition-era New York wedding of Miss Billy Perry. Other guests are Waldo Winchester (a thinly-disguised Walter Winchell), Skeets Boliver, Feet Samuels, and Good Time Charley Bernstein, showing Dandolos as part of the louche guys-and-dolls culture of Broadway in the Roaring Twenties. He also appears in Runyon's short story "Blood Pressure", playing at Nathan Detroit's floating crap game in New York. The unnamed narrator has been dragged into the game by a gangster,