Poker In The Wild West
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The Dead Man’s Hand. A pair of aces and eights. The exact hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding on August 2, 1876, in Deadwood, South Dakota, when a bullet tore through his skull and exited his left check. Shot from behind by Jack McCall, a barfly and odd-job man who was avenging his brother’s death, the now infamous cards fell from Hickok’s hand to the floor, though their suits are still a mystery today. Poker lesson learned? Don’t sit at a table with your back to the door at the Nuttall
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