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 Prior to the explosive
growth of poker in the early 21st Century, Amarillo Slim Preston was 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 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
criminal actions leading to him pleading guilty to
three misdemeanor charges.
In his seventies, Slim remains a top player, particularly in Pot Limit Omaha, Pot Limit Holdem, and No Limit Holdem. His autobiography
is Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People.
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"Poker is a game of people... It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with."
"Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker."
"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."
"They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darndest not to disappoint one of them."
See also Shirley Rosario's Amarillo Slim profile.
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