Just finished it...got it for $.01 on Amazon. Real fun book to read, only took a couple hours. Full of Slim's tales and even written to sound like Slim wrote it, which I highly doubt.
I love the old poker legends, and reading the tales, but, I have to say I think Slim is full of crap.
He really doesn't come out smelling too good, he pretty much admits he was a common hustler, and not below cheating. He doesn't ever say he cheated at poker, but, he lists some pretty good scams inside. Apparenly, nobody can eat one quail thirty days in a row, it's too stong to stomach, the record was 17 days. Slim made a bet and found twins to take 3 day shifts. That's outright cheating.
The thing was publised in 2003, and he gloats over his grand kids and wife, and always mentions his two ranches and house in Amarillo. A Google search turns up an attempted robbery, and says after he returned to his "apartment". It also shows he's divorced, but, doesn't say when.
He claims he came back from WW2 with a million in cash, from running scams like selling counterfiet ration tickets during a war.
He claims he was kidnapped by Pablo Escobar's men and put in a hellocopter...some body calls on the radio and asks the crew to describe who they had. The guy gives a general description, and somebody on the other end says, "that sounds like Amarillo Slim!!!" We're supposed to believe that Slim is that famous somebody in Columbia would recognize him by description only, and then we need to believe these guys were speaking English? In Columbia? After he gets released and is home, he says he sent Pablo some gold coin buttons as a present. The entire CIA and several other groups are looking night and day for old Pablo, and Slim has his address?
He makes a big deal out of winning the WSOP, and how he bacame the champion of the world, when what I heard is Pearson and Brunson and him made a three way deal, he got the bracelet, they split the cash.
I'm willing to ignore the molestation charges, since I have no inside information, and am willing to give him the bennefit of doubt on that. But, I think the book is a collection of BS mixed with some truth.
Still, a good read for a rainy Saturday. Worth every penny of the $.01, lol.