Helped broaden|game's popularity AMARILLO, Texas Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston Jr., a poker champion whose brash style, fast talking and love of the spotlight helped broaden the professional game's appeal and made him one of its most recognizable characters, has died. He was 83. Mr....
Read MoreLived in Amarillo all my life and hadn't heard of Slim until my dad told me he had played a private game of Holdem with him before. He sure is a legend. Awesome to know someone from my hometown was such a notorious gambler and even won the WSOP.
dylan gonzalez
June 20, 2022 | Other
Godspeed Thomas, and thank you for sharing a part of your life with us.
Harry Simpson
April 30, 2018 | Buckeye, AZ
Slim a gambler's nerve and a gentleman's heart.
May 17, 2013
Slim, I know God will give your family the strength to get through these hard times.Hope to see you again up there someday .
Brenda Gunn
October 21, 2012 | Amarillo,, TX
Please accept my condolences. I will never forget Slim in the late 1940's. A couple of my friends and I stopped by the basement in the old Barfield Building at Sixth and Polk in Amarillo occasionally to watch Slim play nine ball and snooker on our way home from Amarillo High School. He was an icon to us. We were thrilled at some of his sayings, such as "If I tell you a goose can pull a plow, hook him up boys", after running the table. Another one I recall was "That's good enough for the...
Harvey Clanton
May 11, 2012 | Shreveport, LA
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charles lehman
May 05, 2012 | North Manahester In, IN
Please accept 'our deepest condolences. May the GOD of all Comfort give your family the needed strength to endure the days to come. ( ATL. GA.)
May 05, 2012
He always knew when to hold 'em, and when to fold 'em. God Bless "Amarillo Slim" and his family.
Mickey Barnes
May 04, 2012 | Zephyrhills, FL
Deal 'Em Slim!...You Win!
Jim Flynn
May 04, 2012 | New York, PA