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 Amarillo Slim website, Greg Dinkin, 2. Mar 2003 14:27 | ||
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| Amarillo Slim's website is up and running. http://thepokermba.com/amarilloslim/ The book that Slim and I co-authored entitled Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived, is being published by HarperCollins on May 6, 2003. The book includes tales of Slim's life as a pool hustler, cardsharp, and proposition bettor mixed in with age-old wisdom and poker secrets. Slim describes some of his greatest gambling exploits–from winning the World Series of Poker in 1972 to creating proposition bets that rivaled the great Titanic Thompson's to running the biggest black market in Europe during the war while giving pool exhibitions (read: hustling) on military bases for Uncle Sam. Among his most famous bets, Slim beat Minnesota Fats playing pool with a broom and Evel Knievel in golf with a carpenter’s hammer. He took Willie Nelson for $300,000 playing dominoes; Bobby Riggs for $100,000 playing Ping-Pong (with a skillet!); and Bob Stupak pitching coins for $65,000. He’s won bets for rafting down the "River of No Return," riding a camel through the fanciest casino in Marrakesh, and driving a golf ball more than a mile. A few of his poker adversaries over the years have included presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. His gambling adventures includes stories about drug lords Pablo Escobar and Jimmy Chagra, Las Vegas pioneers Benny Binion and Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, as well as poker luminaries Doyle Brunson and Johnny Moss. Slim has appeared on The Tonight Show eleven times and will be making a national television tour to promote the book. -Greg Dinkin | ||
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