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Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People电子书

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作       者:Preston, Amarillo Slim

出  版  社:It Books

出版时间:2013-07-01

字       数:42.2万

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Amarillo Slim Preston has won $300,000 from Willie Neslon playing dominoes and $2 million from Larry Flynt playing poker. He has shuffled, dealt, and bluffed with some of twentieth-century's most famous figures. He beat Minnesota Fats at pool with a broom, Bobby Riggs at table tennis with a skillet, and Evel Knievel at golf with a carpenter's hammer. Amarillo Slim has gambled with 'em all, and left most of them wishing they hadn't.The memoirs of a living American icon, Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People is the story of life as a Texas road gambler and the discovery of the Wild West. It's also the story of how Slim won the World Series of Poker at Binion's Horseshoe, became a worldwide celebrity, and brought poker from smoky backrooms to mainstream America. Just let him tell it: If there's anything I'll argue about, I'll either bet on it or shut up. And since it's not very becoming for a cowboy to be arguing, I've made a few wagers in my day. But in my humble opinion, I'm no ordinary hustler. You see, neighbor, I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a champion and make a sucker out of him ... I'm fixing to tell you a few things that I've been keeping to myself for a lot of years. If you're not careful, you just might learn how to get rich without ever having a job.
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Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Introduction

1. From Arkansas to Texas—the Making of Amarillo Slim

2. Serving My Country (and Myself)

3. If You Want Some Publicity, Set Yourself on Fire

4. Have I Got a Proposition for You: Titanic, Runyon, Moss, and More

5. Doyle, Sailor, and Slim: Three Peas in a Pod Who Liked to Book and Bet (but Not Among Themselves)

6. It Takes a Tough Sonofabitch to Whip Me: Poker and Life as a Texas Road Gambler

7. A Binion, a Greek, and How Las Vegas Became the Poker Capital of the World

8. Another Greek, a Thackrey, and the World Series of Poker

9. Celebrity Has Its Perks

10. The River of No Return

11. Spit and Pull It—Leading Men and the Super Bowl of Poker

12. Very Seldom Do the Lambs Slaughter the Butcher—Getting Fat Overseas

13. A Rattlesnake, an Alligator, Pablo Escobar, and Another Trip to Idaho When I Almost Didn’t Return

14. The Last Hand

Recommended Reading

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Praise for Amarillo Slim Preston

Also by Amarillo Slim Preston

Copyright

About the Publisher

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