Poker in the News

In a film directed by Milos Forman, Nicolas Cage will play Amarillo Slim Preston, the legendary professional poker player.

Amarillo Slim not only won the World Series of Poker in 1972 and many other high-stakes tournaments, but he is also purported to have beat Hustler magazine's Larry Flynt in a game for $2 million USD (a claim, by the way, to which Larry Flynt responds "he’s a fucking liar… his whole reputation has been built on lies.”)

Amarillo Slim is also famous for some of the most well-known poker quotes-- "Look around the table. If you don’t see a sucker, get up, because you’re the sucker” and "You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once"-- and his book Amarillo Slim in a World of Fat People.

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