Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Jr. (born December 31, 1928 in Johnson, Arkansas) is a professional gambler, famous for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the main event at the World Series of Poker in 1972. Amarillo Slim - Professional poker player. Before becoming a well known face and tournament poker player, Preston was a rounder and toured the country looking for gambling action along with Doyle Brunson and Sailor Roberts. Preston won the 1972 World Series of Poker main event. ...

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Flack has made several noticable finishes at the WSOP, including winning 5 bracelets. He got the nickname "Back to Back Flack" after winning two consecutive WSOP events in 2002. Layne Flack - Tournament Wins. 1999 $3,000 Pot Limit Hold-Em - won $224,400 - field included Lucy "Golden Ovaries" Rokach and Paul Phillips 2002 $2,000 No Limit Hold-Em - won $303,880 2002 $1,500 No Limit Hold-Em - won $268,020 - field included Johnny Chan, T.J. Cloutier and Juan Carlos "El Matador" M ...

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Before becoming a well known face and tournament poker player, Preston was a rounder and toured the country looking for gambling action along with Doyle Brunson and Sailor Roberts. Preston won the 1972 World Series of Poker main event. Following his victory he went on several talk shows, and even had a bit part in the movie California Split, making him moderately famous outside the poker world. He has appeared on The Tonight Show over 10 times, Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, The Tomorrow Show, Panora ...

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In 1949 Moss once played with Nick the Greek in a five month long poker marathon set up by Benny Binion, winning anywhere from $2 million to $4 million. At the end of the marathon, down millions of dollars, Nick the Greek uttered what has become one of the most famous poker quotes ever, "Mr. Moss, I have to let you go." Because of people like Nick the Greek, Binion and Moss, poker became popular and eventually a World Series of Poker was organized. Moss won the 1970, 1971, and 1974 World Series of Poker main events, tying him with Stu ...

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Preston was the best friend of casino owner Benny Binion. On Preston's publicity run after his 1972 win he convinced Tom Snyder, host of The Tomorrow Show that came on right after The Tonight Show, to allow Preston, Binion, and Joe Bernstein to have the entire show. Binion didn't care to be in the public spotlight, but Preston convinced him to do it. When Binion died in 1989, he left his horse to Preston. Preston is often quoted as saying that if a woman ever won the WSOP, he'd slit his throat, but the true story is quit ...

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In May 2003, Preston published his autobiography Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, where he reveals tales of playing poker with Larry Flynt, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon, amongst others. He reportedly made an anti-semitic remark on a radio station that hurt a movie deal tied into his book. [1] In August 2003 Preston was indicted on three charges of indecency with a 12-year-old child (against his granddaughter). The charges were reduced to misdemeanor assault in a plea bargain and on February 10, 2004 he pleaded ...

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Moss was sometimes called the "Grand Old Man" because of his longevity and superior play. He was one of the charter inductees to the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979. The starting hand Ace-Ten is named the Johnny Moss in his honor. ...

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One time Moss was playing in Oklahoma when he noticed a peep hole in the ceiling where someone was relaying information about cards to a player at the table. After Moss' threat to shoot the man in the ceiling wasn't taken seriously, he ended up wounding him. Moss also regularly had to threaten people to remove their clothes when he knew they were using mechanical cheating devices. Another time, Moss was playing high-stakes golf against a wealthy businessman. Going into the last few holes, Moss had lost over a quarter of a million doll ...

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