World's Greatest Gambler Amarillo Slim Succumbs To Cancer

World's Greatest Gambler dies

Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston Jr, a professional poker player who fancied himself as the "World's Greatest Gambler," passed away on Sunday. He was 83 years old.

According to his son Bunky Preston, Slim died in hospice care in Amarillo, Texas after a long battle against colon cancer.

Known as the first poker celebrity, Slim won the 1972 World Series of Poker Main Event and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.

"He brought poker out of the back alleys," said Larry Grossman, a longtime gaming analyst and poker historian who knew Slim. "He was just a guy with an outsized personality, and he was the perfect person for the time to represent poker. It was really Slim that became the face of poker for middle America."

Following his victory, he appeared on several talk shows including "The Tonight Show," and had a bit part in the 1974 Robert Altman movie "California Split."

The self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Gambler" also authored several books, including "Amarillo Slim's Play Poker to Win" and "Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived."

Eminem's Daughter Hailie Jade Mathers Is 16 Now

Eminem's daughter poses with a friend before a school dance

Eminem's daughter, Hailie Jade Mathers, is now a lovely young lady. She turned 16 years old a few months ago, making fans of Eminem feel old.

Hailie has often been referenced or featured on various songs by her rapper dad including "Hailie's Song", "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", "My Dad's Gone Crazy", "Mockingbird", "When I'm Gone", "Beautiful", "Airplanes Pt. II", "Going Through Changes", and "You're Never Over".

Hailie is the daughter of Eminem to former wife Kimberley Anne Scott. She was born on Christmas Day of 1995.

In 2011, several blogs and website wrote about a Hailie Mathers account on Twitter which tweeted photos of Eminem's daughter. However, Eminem's publicist said the account is fake and "Hailie has no Twitter account at all."

Ann Romney's $1K Shirt On 'CBS This Morning' Is Reed Krakoff

Ann Romney's $1K Shirt (Photo: CBS)

The bird-printed shirt that Ann Romney wore on a television appearance on Tuesday is a creation of Reed Krakoff.

The silk tee is part of Krakoff's 2012 Spring/Summer collection and it reportedly costs $990.

A publicist for the line said it is 100% Krakoff but they did not send the top to Mrs. Romney.

"She must have bought it from Saks or Bergdorf’s, we definitely didn’t send it to her," she told ABC News.

Mrs. Romney wore the shirt when she guested on "CBS This Morning" with her husband, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

In her interview, she told the show that her husband is "a wild and crazy man inside."

"I still look at him as the boy that I met in high school when he was playing all the jokes and really just being crazy, pretty crazy," she said. "And so there’s a wild and crazy man inside of there just waiting to come out!"