17 Facts About Poker Alice

Poker Alice's family moved from Devon, England, where she was born, to Virginia, United States, where she was reared and educated.

Poker Alice got Ivers interested in poker, but he was killed a few years after they married.

Poker Alice's family moved to Virginia when Alice was twelve.

Poker Alice was very keen on keeping up with the latest fashions and would buy dresses to wear to play poker, partly as a business investment to distract her opponents.

Poker Alice met her next husband around 1890 when she was a dealer in Bedrock Tom's saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota.

Poker Alice would make money by gambling and working as a dealer.

Poker Alice claimed that she won $250,000, which would now be worth more than three million dollars.

Poker Alice always had the newest dresses, and even in her 50s was considered a very attractive woman.

Poker Alice was very good at counting cards and figuring odds, which helped her at the table.

Poker Alice was known always to have carried a gun with her, preferably her.

Two years later, another confrontation at Poker Alice's resort led to the shooting of several soldiers, and one civilian.

Poker Alice continued to have run-ins with the law, culminating in the 1920s.

In 1928, facing time in the state penitentiary for her convictions of bootlegging and running a house of prostitution, Poker Alice's community came together to petition the governor to grant her a pardon.

The claim made was that Poker Alice was in poor health, and confinement to prison could be fatal for her.

On Thursday, February 6,1930, Poker Alice underwent a gallbladder operation in Rapid City.

Poker Alice's recovery has appeared to be progressing, but her doctors did warn that there was no surety she was out of danger.

Poker Alice left one final surprise, as when her will was read, it was revealed that Poker Alice had disinherited her relatives for not paying attention to her in her declining years, and instead, divided her estate among her friends.