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The games included $100,000 to $200,000 limit Texas Hold 'Em poker. On May 13, 2004, at the Las Vegas Bellagio, Beal won one of the largest single hands in poker history, $11.7 million. [29] The games have been chronicled in the Michael Craig book The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time.
With the 1946 election of Steve Guthrie as sheriff of Dallas County, Binion lost his fix with the local government and fled to Las Vegas, Nevada. [15] [16] Shortly afterward a long-running feud between Binion and Herbert Noble, a small-time Dallas gambler, boiled over when Noble refused to increase his payoff to Binion from 25 to 40 percent. [17]
The Poker House, subsequently retitled as Behind Closed Doors, is a 2008 American independent drama film written and directed by Lori Petty, in her directorial debut.Based on Petty's early life during the 1970s, [1] the film depicts a painful day in the life of Agnes (Jennifer Lawrence) a teenage girl who is raising her two younger sisters, Bee (Sophi Bairley) and Cammie (Chloë Grace Moretz ...
Gabriel Weston Kaplan (born March 31, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, and professional poker player. [1] He played the title character in the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. He later became a professional poker player and a commentator for the series High Stakes Poker on PokerGO.
2100 Ross Avenue (simply 2100 Ross, [4] formerly San Jacinto Tower [3]) is a 33-story postmodern skyscraper located at 2100 Ross Avenue [1] /2121 San Jacinto Street [2] in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas, in the United States.
The house was built in 1970 by Joe Duncan and was known as Duncan Acres, named after his family. [ clarification needed ] The property was originally 200 acres (0.81 km 2 ) in size. The "mansion" at Southfork Ranch is a 5,900 sq ft (550 m 2 ) house with a 957 sq ft (88.9 m 2 ) enclosed garage that was turned into a den/card room.
He was a member of the Dallas Chess Club and reached the rank of FIDE Master. Smith founded Chess Digest in 1962. The Smith–Morra Gambit is named after him. [2] Smith was also a notable poker player, and came fourth in the 1981 World Series of Poker Main Event. [3]
Gowen was introduced to poker by her boyfriend's father, and started playing while living in Dallas, driving to Shreveport, Louisiana, on the weekends.She finished tenth in a World Poker Tour (WPT) event in late 2002, before gaining national recognition in 2003, winning the televised WPT Ladies' Night event.