Oklahoman lung in poker

Press, 22 May 1978, Page 6

Oklahoman lung in poker

N'ZFA Las Verse Jack Binion, earner of Binion’s Horeeshoa Club. stacked $U5429,00T in $lOO notes on the poker table and doled the prise money eut to the top five winners in the World Series championship of poker. Half of it, JUS2IO.OOO. was stacked in. front of Bobby Baldwin, a mild-mannered Oklahoman in a lime green jogging suit, who had beaten a clgar-chumping Texan, Crandall Addington, with three queens In the final. The three queens beat Addington’s three nines after four hours ef the final round. The queens won a SU6fO,OOO pot, cleaning out Addington in a game called “Hold ’Em.” In “Hold ’Em” each player is dealt two hole cards which he combines with any three Of five cards dealt on the table. When the tournament started four days ago, 42 high-stakes players bought in with st’Slo,ooo each. In third place was Louis "Sager” Hunsucker. aged 44. an Austin. Texas businessman, who was knocked out by losing a tUS6O,BM pet to Baldwin’s three kings