Get to know! Amaryllo Slim (Thomas Austin Preston Jr.)

Most of his life he lived in Vegas, earning bets, poker, but especially remembered his large bets against rich people and entire groups of players.
In his history there have been such extraordinary bets, such as whether he can spend a week in the Bellagio toilet (hotel-casino) for $50,000, how many days in August for $10,000 (winned) and many others. He made more than 100 bets a month and was famous for it all over Vegas.

But most of all, I remembered the following four bets:

1) A table tennis game against one of the best players in the world at the time. He had the right to choose what to play. And he chose the puddles! Then for three months he took lessons from some strong player and with him they trained to play puddles! Three months later, Amarillo won the match.

2) A dispute with a group of people on the hippodrome that he will overtake a racing horse at a distance of 100 meters, but with 1 condition, which he will announce after making a bet, but will not be unfair to his rivals. Although the wording was blurred, he was known as an honest man and a fierce athlete, so 38 people signed the dispute for a total of $5,000. After transferring the money to the guarantor, he announced a condition: the distance will be divided into 2 sections of 50 meters, the finish in the same place as the start. Amaryllo for many years of playing racing knew that racing horses are very slow to stop. As a result, he easily overtook the horse in front of curious spectators. On average, the attraction cost $130 for the bet participants.

3) Dispute c a professional pool player named Minnesota Fat, which will beat him in the pool. The fat man apparently did not know who he contacted... In the end, it was decided to play butterflies and guess who won.

4) A dispute with a group of people that he will hit a golf ball with a golf clutch and his ball will stop further after the hit than any person on the ground after a similar hit. I have to say that Amarillo played golf well, but he was never a master. Therefore, the dispute lively interested a different wealthy audience and the total amount of the bet was quite large. Go search for a player who will face the famous athlete. In the end, a recent world champion was chosen, who had an excellent blow. According to the terms of the dispute, three strikes were made, of which the best was selected, the first one was beaten by a professional.
On the appointed day, a crowd of people gathered on the golf course. A professional performed 3 brilliant attempts and the rich began to rub his hands.
Here, Slim gave a signal, a bus went to the edge of the field and the main actors loaded into it. Then Amaryllo asked to take them to a large, dried salt lake, and when they arrived, they understood everything. Amaryllo got out of the bus and made only one blow, nobody even went to check the outcome of the blow because the ball just rolled out of the zone of visibility. The fact is that on the dried salt lakes, the surface almost does not create friction when touched (such rides are held to set speed records on land).

I really like one of his statements: “I’ve never sought a bug. I was looking for a champion and I made him a fool.”