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Hemish Shah

Hemish Shah (7 April 1968 - 5 September 2001) was an English

England

Stock broker

A stock broker or stockbroker is a regulated professional who buys and sells share s and other security through market makers or Agency Only Firms on behalf of investors....
before he became a professional poker

Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
player, and the winner of Late Night Poker

Late Night Poker

Late Night Poker is a Great Britain television show in which poker players, mostly professionals or strong amateurs, compete in a short series of No-Limit Texas hold 'em tournament games for a prize of approximately ?50,000....
series 4, where he beat the season 2 champion Simon "Aces" Trumper

Simon Trumper

Simon "Aces" Trumper is an England professional poker player from South Kensington, London, England. He is chiefly noted as the winner of Late Night Poker series 2 and runner-up of series 4....
in the final heads-up confrontation.

He won a World Series of Poker

World Series of Poker

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Hemish Shah (7 April 1968 - 5 September 2001) was an English

England

Stock broker

Poker

Late Night Poker

Simon Trumper

World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
bracelet and $312,340 in 2001 for winning the $5,000 Limit Texas Hold-em event. During the event he had to leave the table as he was suffering from stomach cramps. He went to hospital upon returning to England, but suffered a cardiac arrest at 03:00 GMT on 5 September 2001 and died, aged just 33. He was in good health (he didn't smoke, drink alcohol

Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl Functional group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group....
or eat meat

Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
) and his death shocked the poker world.

During the tapings of Late Night Poker series 5 (won by Padraig Parkinson

Padraig Parkinson

Padraig Parkinson is an Ireland professional poker player. He is chiefly recognised as the grand final winner of Late Night Poker series 5 and as the third-place finisher of the 1999 World Series of Poker, where he lost to fellow countryman Noel Furlong....
) players would look up and say "Thanks, Hemish" when they hit a lucky draw. The final for the season was the same day as Hemish's funeral

Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour....
and the players all insisted on attending it. (The production company flew them to London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
by helicopter

Helicopter

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.) In all, over 75 poker players attended his funeral.

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