The game, set up by Benny Binion as a tourist attraction, is widely credited as being the inspiration for the modern day World Series of Poker.

Thinking that his gambling friends may not be familiar with him, Dandolos allegedly introduced Einstein as "Little Al from Princeton" and stated that he "controlled a lot of the numbers action around Jersey.

"[citation needed] According to Dandolos's own testimony in Gambling Secrets of Nick the Greek, just before the end of World War II, he got a call from a friend at the US State Department.

"[citation needed] Near the end of his life, Dandolos was near-broke and playing $5 limit draw poker games in Gardena, California.

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.

In "Shotgun", the fifth episode in the fourth season of American crime drama television series Breaking Bad, Walter White gets called "Nick the Greek" by his brother-in-law Hank Schrader, as the latter thought that the former won a lot of money by playing blackjack with a special strategy.