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Amarillo Slim Preston is the most
famous professional poker player to ever play the game. No other person living
or dead ever brought more attention to the game of poker, or to himself. After
winning the World Series of Poker in 1972, Slim appeared on the Tonight Show
many times, did other television like 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, the
Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder and appeared in the Robert Altman movie California
Split with George Segal and Elliot Gould. More recently the attention he brought
unto himself was due to legal troubles leading to him pleading guilty to three
misdemeanor charges.
Now in his seventies, Slim continues to be one of the world's most talented
poker players, particularly in Pot Limit Omaha and Hold'em, and No Limit Hold'em.
His reading of the action in final table tournament commentary is often
amazingly accurate. The Poker Books page has a link to his autobiography
Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People |
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Amarillo Slim’s Greatest Bets |
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Playing
Minnesota
Fats in
one-pocket
with a
broom.
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Taking
211/2
points
on the
Jets and
winning
a big
bet on
Broadway
Joe in
Super
Bowl
III.
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Hitting
a golf
ball a
mile on
a frozen
lake—inspired
by
Titanic
Thompson.
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Wagering
that a
cat
could
pick up
a Coke
bottle.
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Betting
on which
sugar
cube a
fly
would
land on
in an
Arkansas
jail.
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Outrunning
a horse
for a
hundred
yards
(no one
ever
said
nothing
about
the race
being a
straight-away).
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Holding
a
horse’s
tail for
a
quarter
of a
mile in
San
Angelo,
Texas.
-
Broad
jumping
farther
than a
superior
athlete
at
Rogers
Municipal
Golf
Course.
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Winning
the
World
Series
of Poker
at
Binion’s
Horseshoe
in 1972.
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Rafting
down the
River of
No
Return
in
winter
in a
wetsuit
made by
Jacques
Cousteau–a
bet that
earned
me
$31,000
from
Jimmy
"the
Greek"
Snyder.
-
Beating
Evel
Knievel
in golf
with a
carpenter’s
hammer
and
betting
that two
out of
thirty
cab
drivers
in
Dallas
would
have the
same
birthday.
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Shooting
free
throws
with a
football
against
a
Hall-of-Fame
basketball
coach.
-
Beating
Bobby
Riggs
playing
Ping-Pong
with a
skillet.
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Beating
a world
champion
Ping-Pong
player
with a
Coca-Cola
bottle.\
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Betting
that a
champion
bowler
couldn’t
bowl
seventy
blindfolded
(and
that a
driver
with a
little
physical
impairment
could).
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Finding
(a)
person
who
could
eat a
quail a
day for
thirty
days.
-
Beating
Willie
Nelson
out of
$300,000
playing
dominoes
in Las
Vegas.
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Riding a
camel
through
Casino
El
Mamounia
in
Marrakesh,
Morrocco.
-
Pitching
coins
with Bob
Stupak
for
$65,000
at the
Orleans
in Las
Vegas.
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Playing
Larry
Flynt
head-up
poker at
the Fips
Club in
Los
Angeles.
-
Betting
a
prominent
politician
that
George
W. Bush
would
win the
2000
Presidential
election.
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