Been watching this for awhile. I met Slim a couple times, just always seemed to me to be an ol boy that liked attention. Hughes seems to be cut from a similar cloth. Don't know if the two were only children, seems plausible. If not, at least one is an only child and the other is the baby of the family. I don't know what Slim is guilty of in his life, and I don't want to know. Maybe he is dyin' now, maybe he'll live another 10 years. All I know about him is that he is a character of poker. And poker is a part of all our lives or we wouldn't be here. Each time one of these old guys pass, we lose a little bit of what brought us here. Here's to Slim and Hughes and all the old dudes that are poker, self created or not. It's all about the game.

I'm still at a loss to understand how showing affection (or possibly sympathy - it must have been uncomfortable where she was sitting) for a young relative in a pickup with other people in it is pedophilia.
Maybe I should have had my grandmother & aunts dragged thru. court for the horrendous hugging & kissing I endured as a child.

Considering that is the one incident (as far as I know - happy to be told otherwise) that resulted in a charge, I think it reasonable to assume nothing "worse" happened within the family.
Noone else has come forward stating they know anything extra, so I'm happy to say the story ends there.
I don't need your sympathy, but thanks anyway.

Yes, you think he's an evil old man & nothing will change your mind. We get it.

There were multiple counts of indecency with a child. There was a plea deal down to assault if he plead "no contest", which he did. He spoke about only 2 of the counts in an interview with Nolan Dalla. It's too bad there wasn't an interview with his grand daughter at the same time because all we hear is Slim's side of the story. Here's the interview he did after years of complete silence:

http://www.pokerlistings.com/a-legen...nce-pt-1-38457

Do you really think the DA would bring charges against Slim and ruin his reputaion because he touched a childs leg and said something mildly inappropriate? If you do I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

For what its worth, I think Nolan Dalla didn't ask enough of the right questions. What happened while she was sitting in his lap in her bathing suit that she was acting out later that resulted in one of the charges?

And so they do. Don't be confusing instances where a child has been coached into making an allegation -- either by a poorly trained counsellor or a bitter mother seeking to remove access from the father -- with a spontaneous allegation of sexual abuse from an infant child. Those actually *are* almost always true, though there isn't always sufficient evidence to take them to successful prosecution.

Me, I don't know whether Slim diddled his grandaughter or not, but I do know this: if you've raised the kind of family who are prepared to make this kind of allegation against the aging patriarch -- presumably in the hope of getting a slice of his dough -- then you've got bigger problems than I have.

And if your feckless and broke ass kids have watched you amass a fortune by tricking and deceiving other people out of their money, then perhaps one day those kids might decide they can get a slice of what's yours by tricking and deceiving people about your activities? Some people might not see a distinction between seperating a sucker from their money with a well crafted prop bet, and doing it with a false allegation of child sexual abuse?

But I do know this: if one of my kids had made such a false allegation about me molesting my grandchild, I'm struggling to think of circumstances under which I'd forgive them.

OTOH, if it was a true allegation and they were lying to get me off the hook, I could bring myself to play happy families again for the sake of appearances...

Well, it's not all that different...

Slim plead no contest as part of a plea agreement. He was innocent but he wanted to spare the family that was railroading him a trial. They were lying about him and he wanted to make it easier on them.

Such a good, good man.

obituary from The Economist magazine

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gamet...12/05/obituary

i love amarillo slim

Given that Slim has passed, either a title change of this thread or a locking of this thread with a creation of a new one is in order.

Done (changed title).

"He was innocent but he wanted to spare the family that was railroading him a trial. They were lying about him and he wanted to make it easier on them."

Is this something slim said, or are you inferring this somehow?

RIP Slim!! thought it was pretty cool to see Ivey show respect by tweeting about his passing..especially since he hasn't tweeted since black Friday i believe

R.I.P.

RIP Slim

In an interview with Nolan Dalla, Slim told Dalla the following:

The interview can be found here.

RIP Slim

While reading The Economist obit on Slim, it dawned on me that there's something more pertinent to Slim the poker player that hasn't been discussed.

That's the fact Slim didn't win the WSOP. He was allowed to win. My source? Doyle Brunson's book Godfather of Poker.

^Can you elaborate a little pls? I guess I could use google

No one wanted to publicity that winning a huge poker tournament would bring to them. They worried about the tax implications and the notoriety that could cost them an edge in cash game.

Slim volunteered to be the "winner" and they allowed him to call himself that.

My source is the man who was running the Horseshoe poker room at the time of the early WSOP's.

From page 135 of the second printing of The Godfather Of Poker, "We came right out and started playing crazy so we could let Slim win." The story is a lot longer in the book, but I thought I would quote a very telling passage.

The we in question was Doyle and Puggy Pearson and neither wanted the publicity they thought would come from winning while Slim did.

In the final analysis, Slim may have been given the title, but he did a lot for the WSOP and poker in return.

How do the rest of you feel about Slim being given the title?

RIP, a legend has left this planet

Slim, anything to win documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEGhFmWFVA

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[Grain of salt]

Let's say they did let him win an eight man satellite...now you have what we have today.

Don't forget that at one point Slim had almost nothing and either doubled or tripled up with Ace-High.

I think it was king high.

Doesn't seem like there's much doubt about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Wo...ker#Main_event

I didn't realize there was a Wiki article about it. I'd take the words of Slim with a grain of salt as it seems to conflict with the retelling by Doyle in his book.