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1929 John Gutfreund, former CEO of investment bank, Salomon Brothers Inc., featured in book Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
1876 Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's 1836 Bret Harte, U.S., author, Outcasts of Poker Flat 1834 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game) |
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