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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.
Courtney, 64, had been up until 4am following a night of drinking only to be found seven hours later by his friend and lodger, Brendan, shot dead in his south-east London home.