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Gambling in the Wild West

November 20th, 2009 |

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Alice Avers Suffield Tubbs Hacker (1851-1930) was born in England. Her family touched to Colony where she attended school to become a fine lady. Avers’ family touched to Leadville, Colorado where she eventually met her future husband, Frank Suffield. A miner, Frank would often let her sit behind him while he was playing cards and she presently became fluent at the game-a boon to Alice’s later career. When Frank was killed in a mining accident, Alice was left to fend for herself and apace institute that her relationship for playing cards would provide for her income.

With a good head for counting cards, figuring odds and distracting male players with her looks, Alice presently became a professional gambler always seen with a cigar in her mouth. She worked gambling rooms in Alamosa, Georgetown, Trinidad, Central City and Leadville before heading south to Silver City, New Mexico.

She was also know to circularize a.38 revolver with her and used it on individual occasions including one in which she saved her presently to be next husband, W.G. Tubbs, by shooting a drunken miner who pulled a knife and threatened to kill him. She mated Tubbs shortly after.

Perhaps the most memorable story afraid the death of Tubbs some instance later. In 1910, Tubbs contracted pneumonia and died in Alice’s arms. She then drove his frozen corpse in a horse-drawn sled to Sturgis, 48 miles away, and pawned her wedding ring to pay for his funeral. After that, she went straight into the saloon, sat at the poker table and won enough money to get her ring back.

Factoid-At one time, Poker Alice worked at a tap house that was owned by Bob Ford, the man who killed Jesse James

The Wild West has many more true stories involving such legends such as Wild Bill Hancock whose famous \”Aces and 8′s\” assistance spelled his death and the eternal name for the draw of that hand. There is another story about Wild Bill that came to be an eerie prediction of his last hand. The story goes that Wild Bill was in a poker game with a man he suspected of cheating. When the cheater titled a assistance and asked Bill what he had, Hancock replied, Aces and 6′s Upon showing his hand, old Bill just had a unify of Aces and a 4. The cheater demanded to see Bill’s 6′s and titled Bill on the Bluff where upon Bill pulled out his two six guns and said here are my other two 6′s, and promptly shot and killed his opponent.