Amarillo Slim pleads guilty to child molestation

[lunchmeat]

http://kvii.com/news.htm

Legendary poker player "Amarillo Slim" pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts in a child molestation case today. Amarillo Slim...whose real name is Thomas Preston Jr, appeared in court this morning. He was accused of molesting a 12-year-old family member, and was charged with three separate counts of indecency with a minor. Randall county district attorney James Farren says he filed the charges last summer after Preston confessed to him of fondling a little girl. A special prosecutor took over the case and worked out a plead bargain with Preston. Preston is fined 4-thousand dollars and sentenced to a two-year deferred probation. The special prosecutor says the misdemeanor conviction was a request by the victim's family. James Farren/Randall County D.A.: “It is not between the victim and defendant; it is between the people of Texas and the defendant. With a misdemeanor plead; the defendant doesn't require him to register as a sex offender. Therefore the other children in Texas won't receive same kind of warning to lookout for the defendant.” The Randall County district attorney is disappointed about the plea bargain. He says there is more than enough evidence to prosecute Amarillo slim at a felony level. Meanwhile, the defense attorney told me he is happy that there is a closure in this case. Amarillo slim won the 19-72 world series of poker. He's been on a number of t-v shows and played poker with past Presidents.


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[ChipWrecked]

It's ironic: During the greatest popularity explosion poker has ever had, one of its greatest players is exposed as the worst kind of lowlife.

[scotnt73]

i wouldnt call him one of the greatest maybe best know. from what i hear he was a great gambler but not really that good at holdem. yes he got a bracelet but there wasnt very many people playing in that wsop. i believe it was the 2nd or 3rd one.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

this story shows precisely why i utterly despize the god damn state of texas. three counts of child sex crimes = misdemeanor, yet 0.01 grams (residue) of a controlled substance, even a totally benign one, = strung up by your goddamn balls with a felony.

texas can go to HELL. I have said it before and I'll say it again, the justice system and the police syndicate is nothing more than state sanctioned organized crime. Ol' slim probably just secretly paid his way out of it.

did I mention my utter hatred for the state of texas? rise up to defend these FKheads and I promise you a flame war.

al

[ChipWrecked]

It's a broad statement. I suppose it's like discussions about great boxers.

I knew that Amarillo Slim was a 'great' poker player years before I ever sat down at a table. I'd never heard of Doyle Brunson (no doubt a 'better' hold 'em player).

I doubt if many people would argue that Roy Jones Jr. is a (pound for pound) better boxer than Ali was. But Ali will always be know as "The Greatest".

[Zele]

Bring back Roy Bean.

[thomastem]

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did I mention my utter hatred for the state of texas? rise up to defend these FKheads and I promise you a flame war.

al

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Does this sentiment include Houston? I'm a Cubs fan and want to see Houston go down. Al do you like Houston?

[Greg (FossilMan)]

Not to defend his actions with respect to the molestation, but he did accomplish more than just win the main event early on. I believe he's won 5 or 6 total bracelets, and until an event a couple of years ago, he had won the bracelet every single time he made the final table. So clearly he knows how to be a closer in tourney poker.

Of course, after I heard about his cheap shot in the heads-up tourney in Vienna a few years ago, it was clear he really was a lowlife. He's just an entertaining lowlife who knows how to play poker pretty well.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

[CCass]

Cheap shot in Vienna? Care to clue me in on this?

[Greg (FossilMan)]

Slim and his opponent are heads-up (of course). There has been earlier action in the hand. On the flop the opponent goes all-in (I forget if Slim had already done any betting or raising on this street). Slim announces "Let's go!". The opponent, taking this as a verbal declaration of a call, turns his cards over, as it is a requirement of the tournament that the cards must be shown as soon as somebody is all-in. The opponent has flopped a set, and Slim now says that he didn't call, that his comment about "Let's go" meant "Let's get out of here, I fold." The TD was called over, and ruled that since his oral declaration was not 100% clear, that Slim could fold without putting any more chips in the pot.

I have heard from some of the numerous observers that there was really no doubt that Slim meant he was calling with that statement. And apparently, later in the tourney (as Slim later won this match and advanced), Slim called somebody else's all-in bet with the same phrase "Let's go!"

It is clear that Slim meant to call, then saw that he was drawing slim or dead, and weaseled his way out of it.

Scum is as scum does.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)