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Originally Posted by forestfire80
My great uncle played in the high stakes games in the 70's and said Doyle, Slim and the likes were cheats. I just figured it was sour milk from getting cleaned. This was also coming from a guy who mysteriously became a millionaire a short time after doing his veterinary residency at a race track.
I can not see Sklansky throwing shade on dead persons name without 100% certainty.
A lot of the posters do not realize that Chip himself owned up to major cheating in those early days. The two paragraphs in the book speculated that his confession may not have included his overseeing the cheating at the Dunes cardroom. Since my book is partially a history book it needed to include that the 1980 Dunes cardroom was very dishonest. Dozens of living people besides me know that for a fact. And it is well known that Chip was in charge. I had some extra corroborating information but we are talking about common knowledge here.
As to his becoming "born again" as his main reason to give up dishonesty, I have no reason to doubt that. I do admit that that particular Christian sect annoys me since they think that good people, including my father, are burning in hell while bad believers are in heaven. But if I was intent on besmirching such people why would I bring up a story where someone finding religion made them into a better person?
Also I never said it bothered me when Chips poker skill was praised. I merely said that his designation as the world's best all around player was an exaggeration. Especially after holdem skill became a large part of that evaluation.