{"id":67751,"date":"2020-08-02T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=67751"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:11:11","slug":"wild-bill-gunned-down-with-aces-and-eights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=67751","title":{"rendered":"Wild Bill: Gunned down with aces and eights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-67751\" class=\"panel-layout\">\n<div id=\"pg-67751-0\" class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\">\n<div id=\"pgc-67751-0-0\" class=\"panel-grid-cell\" data-weight=\"1\">\n<div id=\"panel-67751-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_widget_sp_image widget_sp_image panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;}\"><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">Just about every poker player on the planet knows that a pair of black aces and eights are \u201cdead man\u2019s hand\u201d and that the reason harks back to when Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back of the head while holding them in a game of five-card stud in Deadwood, South Dakota.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"panel-67751-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_text panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<p class=\"css-1oblyum-P e1ccqnho0\">But the date of that card game? It was 2 August 1876\u2026 144 years ago today in the Nuttal &amp; Mann\u2019s Saloon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1oblyum-P e1ccqnho0\">The shooting, when Jack McCall pulled the trigger, made Hickok Deadwood\u2019s most famous resident even though he\u2019d only been in the town a few weeks after arriving with Colorado Charlie Utter and Calamity Jane the previous month\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vocal.media\/criminal\/wild-bill-gunned-down-with-aces-and-eights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FULL STORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about every poker player on the planet knows that a pair of black aces and eights are \u201cdead man\u2019s hand\u201d and that the reason harks back to when Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back of the head while holding them in a game of five-card stud in Deadwood, South Dakota. But the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[338,339],"class_list":["post-67751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dead-mans-hand","tag-wild-bill-hickok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106369,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67751\/revisions\/106369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}