World famous gambler "Amarillo Slim" Preston, 83, ... Slim notably won $1.7 million in a poker game from pornography king Larry Flynt and $300,000 from Willie Nelson playing dominos.

Author Dave Dalton Thomas will be in Amarillo for a book signing Saturday for his new work, “Picnic: Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Tradition,” published by Texas A&M University Press ...

In Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, the consummate gambler relives some of his greatest exploits. Among his famous victims are country music legend Willie Nelson ...

Thomas Austin Preston, Jr.—a.k.a. Amarillo Slim—has cut cards with LBJ and hustled all manner of sharpies at pool and Ping-Pong. But at 74, his greatest success continues to be at the poker ...

There really wasn't anything Amarillo Slim wouldn't bet on. Elections and sports games, for sure, but crazy stuff too, ... and took the singer Willie Nelson for US$300,000 ...