Amarillo Slim In A World Full Of Fat Peo The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
21.04.2014
Verlag
Yellow JerseySeitenzahl
288
Maße (L/B/H)
19,8/12,9/1,7 cm
Gewicht
346 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-224-09992-9
Thomas Austin Preston. Six foot four skinny as a rake. He played poker with two US presidents - and drug lord Pablo Escobar; made a million dollars by the age of nineteen; and drove a golf ball a mile. Thomas Austin Preston - who was he? The world knows him better as the greatest gambler of all time: Amarillo Slim. Raised in Amarillo Texas Amarillo Slim lived the most daring exciting and profitable life of any man of his time. He ran the biggest black-market operation in Europe won the World Series of poker in 1972 was celebrated in songs and movies and his picture hangs in City Hall Las Vegas. He was a member of four Halls of Fame - and a legend in his lifetime. Because most of all Slim was a man who loved to gamble. He'd bet on anything - if the price was right. He rode a camel through the fanciest casino in Marrakesh and beat Evel Knievel at golf (with a hammer) but that was just the small stuff. In his finest hour he took on the Chinese table tennis champion at his own game. Slim of course got to choose the bat. The choice? Coke bottles. The result? 21 - 0. Slim was a very happy man. A sensationally entertaining autobiography this is the story of his extraordinary life - and the secrets of his even more extraordinary success. From Vegas to Colombia Texas to London welcome to the wonderful world of Amarillo Slim.
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