Greg's RailRoad CASINO
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2 August 1876 Wild Bill Hickok is shot nearly point blank in the back of his skull while playing poker in Carl Mann's Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, Dakota Territory by Jack McCall, a local lowlife who had been enlisted by Deadwood's criminal elements to murder Hickok before he could become the town's marshal. Hickok was holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights. From thereon, in memory of Wild Bill Hickok, that combination of cards has been known to superstitious poker players as "the Dead Man's Hand." |
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