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Amarillo Slim

American poker player (1928–2012)

Thomas Austin Preston Jr. (December 31, 1928 – April 29, 2012), known as Amarillo Slim, was an American professional gambler known for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.^[1]

Poker career

Before becoming a well-known tournament player, Preston was a rounder, touring the United States looking for gambling action along with Doyle Brunson and Sailor Roberts, effectively introducing Texas hold 'em, the most popular poker type today, to Las Vegas in the 1960s.^[2]

Preston participated in the first World Series of Poker in 1970 along with Johnny Moss, Sailor Roberts, Doyle Brunson, Puggy Pearson, Crandell Addington, and Carl Cannon.^[3] Following his victory in the 1972 WSOP Main Event, he appeared on several talk shows, including The Tonight Show, and had a small part in the 1974 Robert Altman movie California Split.^[4] He appeared on the panel game show I've Got a Se

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Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston, Colorful, Controversial Champion and Raconteur, Dead at 83

During the 1972 World Series of Poker final table, the wisest public relations move the game ever experienced was formulated over dirty cups of coffee and a few cigarettes in a Binion’s coffee shop booth.

Amarillo Slim, the man largely credited with ushering in the early positive exposure the WSOP received, was nursing an extreme short stack with four players left.

The three other players sitting around the booth had no interest in winning the title.
“Slim had like fifteen hundred in chips, just, as they say, a chip and a chair,” Poker Hall of Fame Member Crandell Addington recalls.

“Doyle (Brunson) brought it up. He lived in Fort Worth with his wife and he said he could not stand the heat if he won. Puggy (Pearson) said, ‘I can’t win. I sold 200 percent of myself.’ I couldn’t win it either.”

The three men held more than 98 percent of the chips in play. Jack Binion caught wind of the crew’s plans and stopped play for the night.

The next day, Brunson withdrew claiming illness. He and P

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Remembering Amarillo Slim Whichever Way We Wish

When I first attended the World Series of Poker (WSOP) there were no corporate sponsors, no scantily clad models hawking online poker, and no TV cameras. The big action was found downtown on Fremont Street at Binion’s Horseshoe, a gambler’s gambling hall. Some of the rounders wore cowboy hats and most went by colorful nicknames like Puggy and Texas Dolly.

Despite all those colorful names, the biggest name in poker was Amarillo Slim.

This was not 1972, the year Slim won the WSOP. This was 1 B.C.M. — the year before Chris Moneymaker’s improbable run to win the Main Event bracelet in 2003. Rick Reilly, who was at Sports Illustrated at the time, was one of the few mainstream writers to write about the WSOP, and his column was all about Amarillo Slim. HarperCollins reached out to Slim to write a book, and as both a literary agent and author (I was in Vegas promoting my book The Poker MBA when I met Slim), I began my journey with the living legend.

Within the next year, the WSOP was running seemingly every