Thomas Austin Preston Jr. is one of the great legendary figures in the world of professional poker, but to most fans he is much better known as Amarillo Slim. Strangely enough, Amarillo Slim isnt a Texan by birth. He was actually born in Johnson, Arkansas, on December 31, 1928, but he now does reside in Amarillo, Texas.
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 traveled the country in his constant quest for fish, or just looking for some poker action where ever he happened to be, often accompanied by fellow rounders Doyle Brunson and Sailor Roberts.
Slim is assuredly the stuff of which legends are made, and it was only natural that he should publish his autobiography, Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People in 2003 in which he tells of poker games played with U.S....
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