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		Slim laughed at this suggestion and said he would put the regulation golf ball on a regulation tee and use a P.G.A. approved golf club to drive the ball over one mile.
		Slim calmly sets the ball on the tee and with one mighty swing the ball travels well into the next county skipping on the ice.
		Amarillo Slim Preston is a living legend and the winner of the World Series of Poker in 1972.
	www.larrygrossman.com /AmarilloA.html (570 words)

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		You would be hard pressed to find a poker player as famous as Amarillo Slim or one who has done more to contribute to the mythology of it than him.
		Born Thomas Preston on December 31, 1928, in Johnson, Arkanas, Slim was a rounder.
		Amarillo Slim is not a poker player but a notorious gambler.
	www.greatestpokerplayers.com /Thomas_'Amarillo_Slim'_Preston.shtml (262 words)

	Player Profile: Amarillo Slim
		Amarillo Slim is a colorful throwback to the “old days” when poker — then regarded as a disreputable game — was played in the back rooms of saloons, pool halls, and cramped, smoke-filled rooms in sleazy hotels.
		Slim was what was known as “a rounder” or card shark, a professional gambler who made his living hunting for “fish”, gullible players with fat bankrolls who thought they were better players then they actually were.
		Amarillo Slim did not, however, earn his legendary reputation due to his colorful past alone, it was his exceptional poker-playing skills that initially brought him the fame he enjoys today.
	www.articledashboard.com /Article/Player-Profile--Amarillo-Slim/100344 (611 words)

	Amarillo Slim Bio - Poker player profile, quotes and pictures
		Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Jr was born in December 31, 1928 in Johnson, Arkansas.
		Amarillo Slim: If you can't spot the sucker within the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
		Amarillo Slim: Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.
	www.everypoker.com /amarillo-slim (672 words)

	Amarillo Slim player profile - Professional-Poker.com
		Amarillo Slim is one of the most famous gamblers in the world and he helped bring high stakes poker from the seedy, smoke-filled, dangerous backrooms of Texas to respectability at the glitzy and glamorous casinos of Las Vegas.
		Amarillo Slim was born as Thomas Austin Preston, Jr.
		Amarillo Slim’s greatest moment came in 1972 when he won the World Series of Poker.
	www.professional-poker.com /poker-players/amarillo-slim.htm (528 words)

	Poker Pages: Poker Articles: Amarillo Slim
		Slim: I was doin' a lot of TV after the World Series first started, so I'm in Mountain Home, Arkansas, buying some registered Hereford cattle from the Rockefeller Corporation.
		Slim: This is the factual account: It used to be that we took very few breaks, we played till it was over, but that was before the media got a hold of it.
		Slim because she was trying to show me some respect in front of the media), "what do you think about a lady getting a hold of that many chips?"
	www.pokerpages.com /articles/interviews/amarilloslim-part1.htm (2275 words)

	amarillo slim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Amarillo Slim is known for being not only a great card player, but also a great gambler.
		Slim doesn't play as many tournaments as he used to probably because a lot of poker players look at him with disgust (he has even been called Amarillo Slime).
		Along with Doyle Brunson, Amarillo is one of the last of the men that currently play at the World Series of Poker, who competed at the original event in 1970.
	www.alamopoker.com /learnpoker/amarillo-slim.php (930 words)

	Amarillo Slim Preston Profile
		in Johnson, Arkansas in 1928, Amarillo Slim is known by some as "the greatest poker player ever".
		One of the most colorful legends of the game, Slim has the reputation of putting poker on the map and bringing respectability to the game.
		Slim's biography - Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People - is currently available at bookstores.
	www.pokerstore.ca /profiles/profile-amarillo-slim.php (273 words)

	Review of Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People
		More than anything else, Slim's stories are entertaining, and to his credit, not all of the stories he tells wind up with the protagonist smelling like a rose.
		Amarillo Slim and Greg Dinkin have done us all a marvelous service by capturing these amazing escapades in print for generations to come.
		Amarillo Slim Preston is arguably the most compelling personality in the world of gambling, and his memoir,
	www.jetcafe.org /~npc/reviews/gambling/amarillo_slim.html (848 words)

	Amarillo Slim - The most famous poker player of them all
		Amarillo Slim aka Thomas Austin Preston Jr was born on December 31, 1928 in Johnson, Arkansas.
		His legendary story telling and seemingly endless reertoire of quotable quotes has endeared him to legions of fans, both from the poker world and outside thanks to his many TV appearances on chat shows and appearing in the movie California Split with George Segal and Elliot Gould.
		Amarillo Slim is a natural gambler and still lists his profession as pool player.
	www.love-texas-holdem.com /amarillo-slim.html (197 words)

	Legends of the Game: Amarillo Slim \| Poker News
		Along the way to becoming poker's ambassador, Slim has won huge bets by playing ping pong with a cast-iron skillet (and a coke bottle), holding on to a running horse's tail for a quarter mile, and beating Willie Nelson (a national champion) at dominos for $350,000 of his and Steve Wynn's money.
		In his prime, Amarillo Slim was a very fine poker player, but his own belief is that poker was just part of the whole package.
		Slim, on the other hand, is still married to his wife of over fifty-years.
	www.pokernews.com /news/2005/04/poker-legends-amarillo-slim.htm (1063 words)

	CARDSHARK Online: Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People
		Amarillo Slim might be the greatest gambler who ever lived, but it's his down-home charm and folksy storytelling that have made him an American idol and media darling.
		Slim is a legend, as American as Paul Bunyan, Jesse James, and P.T. Barnum.
		Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston, 73 years old, is a fast-talking, flamboyant Texas gambler and poker tournament promoter who won the World Series of Poker in 1972.
	cardshark.us /amazon/b_0060542357.html (487 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, 9.3.03
		Slim's Hicksville glibness masks a sharp mind, and his turn of phrase draws people to him, friends and opponents alike.
		Slim comes in as a pool player, but he does everything from fixing military baseball games to riding a camel through the finest casino in Marrakech to make a buck.
		Slim puts in long hours over many years perfecting his pool game, his free-throw shooting, his ability to play ping-pong with any implement you could name.
	www.flakmag.com /books/amarillo.html (1199 words)

	Poker Pages: Poker Articles: Amarillo Slim
		Slim: Yeah, Mike Sexton researched it and I got at the final table four times and I won all of four of them.
		Slim: I enjoy the camaraderie, the how are you and how've you been, and do you remember the wa-wa-wa, and how are your cutting horses...
		Slim: You could be as they were if you wanted to, so I'm up on the stage and I take off everything I've got on.
	www.pokerpages.com /articles/interviews/amarilloslim-part2.htm (2793 words)

	Amarillo Slim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The charges were reduced to misdemeanor assault in a plea bargain and on February 10, 2004 he pled guilty to the reduced charges, receiving a $4,000 fine and two years deferred adjudication.
		A film based on Preston's career, entitled "Amarillo Slim", is currently being developed to be directed by Miloš Forman, with Nicolas Cage slated to play him.
		Preston is divorced, has three children, and currently resides in Amarillo, Texas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amarillo_Slim (640 words)

	Texas Monthly May 2003: The Skinny on Slim
		Amarillo Slim was smiling when he said this, and I was laughing.
		Talk is Slim's weapon of choice—distracting his opponents with his deep drawl, getting into their heads, telling stories from a colorful life of hustles good and bad, bets made and lost.
		Slim's left eye is a little narrower than his right—maybe, I couldn't help but think, from years of cagey winking.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/2003-05-01/feature4.php (1206 words)

	Amarillo Slim \| Professional Poker Player Profile
		Amarillo Slim claims to have made a living out of incredible bets, like playing one-pocket pool with Minnesota Fats using a broom handle, playing golf with Evel Knievel using a carpenter's hammer, playing poker with United States presidents, beating Larry Flynt at poker for $2,000,000, and beating Willie Nelson at dominoes for $300,000.
		Preston's autobiography, "Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People," details his escapades, and is full of trademark Slim sayings, such as: "Look around the table.
		Amarillo Slim has three children and at least seven grandchildren.
	www.poker-player-profiles.com /amarillo-slim (477 words)

	Play Poker To Win - Amarillo Slim's Way \| Poker News
		For most, the name of Amarillo Slim Preston is a glimpse into the history of the game of poker.
		Amarillo Slim also touches on many of the key elements in the basics of making a poker player.
		Slim expresses the reason that there may not be much more than what he gives when he says, "there's millions of ways to play, and how you do it is up to you." It is possible, with his Texan's wisdom and style of speech, that there wasn't more that he could say than he did.
	www.pokernews.com /news/2005/12/poker-amarillo-slim.htm (769 words)

	The 2+2 Forums: Recent Amarillo Slim news?
		More recently, Slim has made his way back into the news when he was cut off by a passing car last Wednesday.
		Slim, always the gambling man, threw it into reverse and took off as the gunman fired three shots into Slim’s car.
		Slim's lied about bigger things, and I'm pretty sure he has access to ways to make the holes not fake.
	forumserver.twoplustwo.com /showflat.php?Number=7974001 (1071 words)

	AMARILLO SLIM-WORLD FULL OF FAT PEOPLE by Preston, Amarillo, Dinkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Slim, who's in his 70s and has won millions and has bet more than that is a Binion's World Series of Poker winner, here offers a marvelous blend of stories, hustles, and profiles of hustlers,con men, super brilliant and super powerful from Texas to Nevada and "everywhichaway".
		Slim will bet on anything when he's got an "informational edge." That applies to horse racing, sports betting, gin rummy, floating down the Salmon River, shooting pool or who'll be the next U.S. president.
		Slim's what you might call real Americana, and at a time when the game of poker has approached its zenith in popularity as a respectable game, the book fits perfectly.His impact on international poker may never be measurable.
	www.gamblersbook.com /weblink.cby/detail/450301.html (341 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Amarillo, commercial center of the Texas Panhandle, is in southern Potter County and extends into Randall County.
		The population grew from 482 in 1890 to 1,442 by 1900.
		Amarillo was home for such celebrities as country music pioneer Alexander C. (Eck) Robertson and Thomas A. Preston, Jr., better known among card players as Amarillo Slim.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/AA/hda2.html (2284 words)

	Amarillo Slim: WSOP Profiles
		Slim relies on a healthy knowledge of odds, and having more knowledge than his opponent.
		Amarillo Slim has a long and decorated history at the World Series of Poker.
		You can bet that Amarillo Slim will be representing at the World Series of Poker until the day he dies.
	www.poker-king.com /poker-king-articles.php?article=21 (401 words)

	Amarillo Slim In a World Full of Fat People by Amarillo Slim Preston with Greg Dinkin
		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 fl market in Europe during the war while giving pool exhibitions (read: hustling) on military bases for Uncle Sam.
		Slim has appeared on The Tonight Show eleven times and will be making a national television tour to promote the book.
		Amarillo Slim Preston is a lanky 6' 4" Texan who is rarely seen without his snakeskin-wrapped Stetson and custom-designed cowboy boots.
	thepokermba.com /amarilloslim (433 words)

	Indictment might silence bluster of famed hustler `Amarillo - Fantasy Bets Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Slim was a hustler and a scuffler with a patter that wouldn't quit and an uncommon ability to stretch the truth.
		I mention it because you'll be hearing more of his given name and less of his colorful nickname in the days to come as his creepy courtroom drama plays out in Texas, where he has been indicted on three charges of indecency with a 12-year-old child.
		Preston's entertaining, cleaned-up autobiography with Greg Dinkins, "Amarillo Slim in a World of Fat People," was published in May by HarperCollins to some good reviews.
	www.fantasybetszone.com /forum/showthread.php?t=8028 (774 words)

	Review of Play Poker to Win
		Without a doubt, Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston is one of the most colorful characters in a business that is filled with remarkable personalities.
		Anyone suspect of Slim's intellect would be quite the fool, nonetheless, I would be quite surprised to find out that he has solved a mathematical equation at a poker table in his life.
		Through experience and careful consideration away from the table, Slim has honed his knowledge of the game to such an extent that his instincts almost always will lead him to a mathematically correct decision.
	www.jetcafe.org /~npc/reviews/gambling/play_poker_to_win.html (908 words)

	Amarillo Slim - Poker Player Profiles - Blind Bet Poker
		Even more so than the creation of the WSOP, though, the most important event in terms of helping the public accept poker was "Amarillo Slim" Preston's win in the 1972 WSOP Main Event.
		The biggest of these was Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker, which became for a time the second-largest poker tournament in the world behind the WSOP.
		Some of his greatest stories were collected in his biography, Amarillo Slim In A World Full Of Fat People.
	www.blindbetpoker.com /profiles/amarillo-slim.html (773 words)

	Amarillo Slim
		Amarillo Slim is much more than just a poker player though, he is a Texas treasure, a great story teller, and a character of the world.
		Amarillo Slim is an icon known the world over as a man who will bet on just about anything.
		You can go here to listen to a great interview with Amarillo Slim by National Public Radio, be shur to select the extended version.
	amarilloslim.org (1122 words)

	Amazon.com: Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		by Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin "On December 31, 1928, I was born Thomas Austin Preston Jr.
		One of the startling things that comes through, though Slim doesn't push it at all, is the fact that this man has an amazing mathematical mind (I'd bet his IQ is well north of "Exceptional").
		Amarillo was flattered to be asked at this late stage in his career only to discover that he would be playing some of the deepest untaxed pockets in the world:namely, the major drug lords of the Columbian cartels.
	www.amazon.com /Amarillo-Slim-World-Full-People/dp/0060542357 (2290 words)

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