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When I first attended the World Series of Poker (WSOP) there were no corporate sponsors, no scantily clad models hawking online poker, and no TV cameras. The big action was found downtown on Fremont Street at Binion’s Horseshoe, a gambler’s gambling hall. Some of the rounders wore cowboy hats and most went by colorful nicknames like Puggy and Texas Dolly.
Despite all those colorful names, the biggest name in poker was Amarillo Slim.
This was not 1972, the year Slim won the WSOP. This was 1 B.C.M. — the year before Chris Moneymaker’s improbable run to win the Main Event bracelet in 2003. Rick Reilly, who was at Sports Illustrated at the time, was one of the few mainstream writers to write about the WSOP, and his column was all about Amarillo Slim. HarperCollins reached out to Slim to write a book, and as both a literary agent and author (I was in Vegas promoting my book The Poker MBA when I met Slim), I began my journey with the living legend.
Within the next year, the WSOP was running seemingly every minute on ESPN, the World Poker Tour had a regular time slot on the Travel Channel, Jim McManus’s poker narrative, Positively Fifth Street, was on the New York Times best-seller list, Intern
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Amarillo Slim
American poker player (1928–2012)
Thomas Austin Preston Jr. (December 31, 1928 – April 29, 2012), known as Amarillo Slim, was an American professional gambler known for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.[1]
Poker career
[edit]Before becoming a well-known tournament player, Preston was a rounder, touring the United States looking for gambling action along with Doyle Brunson and Sailor Roberts, effectively introducing Texas hold 'em, the most popular poker type today, to Las Vegas in the 1960s.[2]
Preston participated in the first World Series of Poker in 1970 along with Johnny Moss, Sailor Roberts, Doyle Brunson, Puggy Pearson, Crandell Addington, and Carl Cannon.[3] Following his victory in the 1972 WSOP Main Event, he appeared on several talk shows, including The Tonight Show, and had a small part in the 1974 Robert Altman movie California Split.[4] He appeared on the panel game show I've Got a Secret, where his secret involved losing $190,000 in one night of poker.[5]
He also founded the tournament series called Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker, which ran annually between 1979