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6 unusual facts about Poker Alice


Barbara Stuart

In 1960, Stuart appeared as the legendary gambler Poker Alice in three episodes of the CBS-Desilu western series The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.

Georgetown, Colorado

The frontier gambler, Poker Alice, lived for a time in Georgetown and in several other Colorado communities where she was considered an expert player and dealer.

Gloria Manon

She has appeared in such television series as Daniel Boone, Burke's Law, The Name of the Game, The Six Million Dollar Man and the frontier gambler Poker Alice, the latter of which was her last screen role before a 17-year break.

Poker Alice

Tubbs and Ivers did not want their children to be influenced by the world of poker, so they moved to a house just northeast of Sturgis on the Moreau River in South Dakota.

Ivers has been fictionalized in several films and numerous television series, including the 1978 TV-movie The New Maverick with James Garner as Bret Maverick and Susan Sullivan as Poker Alice Ivers.

William J. Bulow

As governor, he pardoned the famous frontier gambler Poker Alice after her conviction of bootlegging and other charges related to running a house of prostitution.



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