Before he moved to Vegas and invented the World Series of Poker, he bootlegged whiskey and killed at least one man in Dallas. A new book, Blood Aces, from which this excerpt was taken, chronicles the early life of the gambling legend.
In 1949, streetcars still roamed Dallas' streets, the Adolphus Hotel towered over its neighbors downtown, the State Fair was still segregated, and Benny Binion wanted his money.
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