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Alice Ivers (1851-February 27, 1930), better known as Poker Alice, was a famous poker player. Her family moved from Devon, England, where she was born, to Virginia, United States, where she went to school and was raised. As an adult, Ivers moved to Leadville, Colorado where she met her husband Frank Duffield.
*Poker Alice Band
*Poker Alice Gambler
*Poker Alice Biography
*Poker Alice Coin
*Poker Alice Elizabeth Taylor
Poker Alice married George Huckert but George died in 1913 and that made Alice a widow for the third time. During Prohibition, Alice opened a saloon called “Poker’s Palace” the establishment was well known for gambling, liquor, and prostitution. The police closed down the house because of an incident and Alice spent some time in jail. Poker Alice (TV Movie 1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Posted by Jack Tzekov, July 10, 2014
Poker Alice (1851 - 1930), was a famous poker player in the American West. She stood out not only as one of the earliest women poker players, but also as one of the most well-known Old West gamblers. In fact, of all the Old West women to make their mark in history, Poker Alice was respected as an honest, hard-working businesswoman who didn’t hesitate to defend her family and business interests.
In the pages below, talented illustrator Jack Tzekov brings color to Poker Alice’s amazing story. This poker comic is based on real and fictitious events around the life and legend of a fascinating person. Poker Alice made a mark on card game history and established herself as a famous Old West woman.
Download The Story of Poker Alice in PDF format.
In ’62 Abe Lincoln said America won’t rest Until we lay the iron road and join her East and West As the Union and the Central raced to fill the dream A Bible-totin’ English gal brought me to my knees
*Poker Alice The “Queen of the Western Gamblers” was Alice Ivers. She was both gambler and madam. She also had a religious side, closing her brothel on Sundays where she taught Sunday school lessons to her girls in the parlor where the other six days of the week were devoted to highly secular frolics.
*The Poker Alice is a home away from home. This cottage sleeps 8 people and if rented with the Wild Bill can sleep up to 12 people with 3 bathrooms. It has a full kitchen so you can prepare your favorite meals. A living room and dinning area.
She Said, call me Poker Alice you’re on my Midnight run A game of three-card Monte, sir, a round of Five and One? Praise the Lord and place your bets, there’s many a mile to ride I’m Poker Alice Ivers and I’ll take you down the line
Alice, you’re a beauty but the way you play’s not fair Straights and flushes never win, or Aces in a pair Your icy stare is breakin’ me the coolest in the land But I believe a Queen of Hearts lies hidden in your hand
She said wagerin’ fo me-friend is risky You’re better off to drown youself in whiskey And don’t forget a double-cross will earn a fair reward I’ll send a man to Kingdom Come with my forty-four
In Deadwood, South Dakota a saloon beside the tracks Was home to Alice girls who made a livin’ on their backs But every single Sunday she shut the tables down And preached the Good Word to the girls and everyone in town
She Said, call me Poker Alice you’re on my Midnight run A game of three-card Monte, sir, a round of Five and One? Praise the Lord and place your bets, there’s many a mile to ride I’m Poker Alice Ivers and I’ll take you down the line
Alice died in poverty her fortunes turned to dust Upon her grave they carved these words: Alone In God We Trust I wonder if she rode those rails from earth to paradise ‘Cause standin’ there I swear I heard her singin’ in the pines:
Praise the Lord and place your bets, there’s many a mile to ride I’m Poker Alice Ivers and I’ll take you down the line
Music and lyrics by California resident, Larry Potts (larrypottsmusic.com), who has won considerable acclaim by winning and placing in numerous songwriting competitions. The story of Poker Alice, famous frontier gambler, text version
Poker Alice Ivers was a famous player in the old American West. She was a professional gambler who owned a brothel. She was a bootlegger and a convicted felon. She smoke cigars, carried a gun, and she killed a man!
Alice Ivers was born on February 17, 1851 in Devonshire, England, or so she claimed. Some sources say she was born in 1853 in Virginia to Irish immigrants.
While in her late teens, Alice’s family moved to Leadville, Colorado. There she met and married Frank Duffield, sometime in the 1870s.
Duffield was a mining engineer who played poker in his spare time. He taught Alice how to play the game and she found that she had a good head for counting cards and figuring odds. Most women only played poker at home at the time.
Alice accompanied her husband to the gambling parlors and soon started sitting in on the games.
After just a few years of marriage, Duffield was killed in a mining accident and Alice was forced to make money by gambling and working as a dealer.
Throughout the 1880s, Alice worked in saloons across the west as a faro and poker dealer. Her skill and beauty resulted in very good pay. It is likely that she worked the gambling halls in the Colorado towns of Alamosa, Georgetown, Trinidad, Central City and Leadville, as wells as those in Silver City, New Mexico, before moving to Deadwood, South Dakota.
She was an attractive woman who wore the finest clothes with fancy low-cut gowns, ostrich plumes and other fancies of the day, using her looks to distract male players.
During this time, Alice was reputed to have made as much as $6,000 at the gambling tables on a good night - a huge amount of money back then.
In Deadwood she met Warren G. Tubbs, a housepainter from Sturgis and a fellow card dealer. Their romance started when Alice shot a man in the arm who had been threatening Tubbs with a knife.
Alice Ivers and Warren Tubbs married and had four sons and three daughters together. While her children were growing up, Alice tried to keep them away from the gambling houses and at one point she and Tubbs decided to homestead a ranch northeast of Sturgis on the Moreau River.
Alice’s time at the Moreau Ranch was some of the happiest in her life. She liked the peace and quiet and never missed the saloons and gambling halls.
It was likely that Warren’s painting jobs in so many different houses exposed him to tuberculosis and caused him to fall sick with the disease.
Warren Tubbs died in 1910 of pneumonia during a blizzard. To pay for his funeral, Alice had to pawn her wedding ring, which led her back to the poker tables. She took his body back to Sturgis for burial.
Alice’s third husband was George Huckert, a worker on her homestead taking care of the sheep. He was constantly proposing to her, yet for awhile she did not agree. However, Alice owed him $1,008, so she married him figuring that it would be cheaper than paying his back wages. Huckert died in 1913.
In 1910, Ivers opened ’Poker’s Palace,’ a saloon in Fort Meade, South Dakota which offered gambling and liquor downstairs, and prostitution upstairs.
The saloon was always closed on Sundays because of Ivers’ proclaimed religious beliefs, however, in 1913, some drunken soldiers disobeyed Alice’s ’no work on Sunday’ rule and ran on rampage in the house.
It was then that Ivers fired her gun.
The shot ended up killing one of the soldiers and injuring another. Alice was arrested, along with six of her prostitutes.
Ivers’ time spent in jail was short, but she got through it by reading the bible and smoking cigars. At the trial, she claimed self-defense and was acquitted. Shortly after the trial, her saloon was shut down.
In 1928, she was sentenced to prison for repeated offenses of operating a brother. Ivers did not up jailed because she was pardoned by then governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota, who took this action because of her old age.
Alice claimed that she had won more than $250,000 in gambling money over the years and that she never once cheated. Both of these claims are probably true. Poker Alice didn’t have to cheat. She knew how to count cards and she knew how to figure the odds. Plus, she was always skillful at ’reading’ other players while remaining stone-faced herself.
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. The TV movie ’Poker Alice,’ in which the titular cigar-smoking and bordello-owning poker player was portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor, was fictionalized to the point that the character had a different last name.
Jack Tzekov is an art director, graphic and web designer and illustrator who works at Bearbrook Studios. He atttends the Academy of Art University and lives in Ottawa, Canada.
Poker Alice BandView the discussion thread.“At my age I suppose I should be knitting. But I would rather play poker with five or six ‘experts’ than eat.”— Alice Ivers Tubbs; aka Poker Alice
Perhaps the best known female poker player in the Old West, Alice Ivers Tubbs, better known as “Poker Alice”, hailed from England. Born on February 17, 1851, in Devonshire, she was the daughter of a conservative schoolmaster who moved the family to the United States when she was still a small girl. First settling in Virginia, Alice attended an elite boarding school for young women until the family moved again in her teenage years, to the silver rush in Leadville, Colorado.
While there, Alice met a mining engineer by the name of Frank Duffield and the two married when she was 20. Gambling was a way of life in the many mining camps of the Old West and when Frank, an enthusiastic player, visited the many gambling halls in Leadville, young Alice went along with him rather than stay home alone. At first, the pretty young girl stood quietly behind her husband, simply watching the play. However, a quick study, it wasn’t long before she was sitting in on the games, quickly demonstrating proficiency for poker and faro.
Leadville, Colorado at Dusk by Carol Highsmith.
A few years after their marriage, Alice’s husband, who worked as a mining engineer, was killed in an explosion and she was left alone with no means of support. With her education, she might have taught school; however, even though the mining camp flourishing with some 35,000 residents, it didn’t have a school. The few remaining jobs available to women in a mining camp did not appeal to Alice and she soon decided to try to make a living with her gambling skills. Though she preferred the game of poker, she also learned to deal and play Faro and was soon in high demand, both as a player and a dealer. At this time, Alice was a petite 5’4” beauty, with blue eyes and lush brown hair. A “lady” in a gambling hall that wasn’t of the “soiled dove” variety was rare in the Old West and bedecked in the latest fashions, she was a sight for the sore eyes of many a miner.
Traveling from one mining camp to another, the talented young beauty soon acquired the nickname “Poker Alice.” In addition to playing the game, she often worked as a dealer, in cities all over Colorado including Alamosa, Central City, Georgetown, and Trinidad. As time went on, Alice began to puff on large black cigars, while still in her fashionable frilly dresses; however, she never gambled on Sundays because of her religious beliefs. She also carried a .38 revolver and wasn’t afraid to use it. As her reputation grew throughout the west, she always found willing players and she attracted men looking for a challenge. As such, she was quickly welcomed in gambling halls because the crowd she drew was good for business.
Alice soon left Colorado and made her way to Silver City, New Mexico, where she broke the bank at the Gold Dust Gambling House, winning some $6,000. Sometime later, she made a trip to New York City, which she often did after a large win, to replenish her wardrobe of fashionable clothing.
Afterward, she returned to Creede, Colorado, where she went to work as a dealer in Bob Ford’s saloon – the very same Bob Ford who had earlier killed Jesse James.
Alice eventually made her way to Deadwood, South Dakota around 1890. While there, she met a man named Warren G. Tubbs, who worked as a housepainter in Sturgis, but sidelined as a dealer and gambler.
Though she routinely beat Tubbs at the gaming tables, he was taken with her and the two began to see each other outside of the gambling halls. On one occasion when a drunken miner threatened Tubbs with a knife, Alice pulled out her .38 and put a bullet into the miner’s arm. Tubbs and Alice eventually married and the couple would have seven children. A painter by trade, Tubbs, along with Alice’s gambling profits, supported the family. The couple eventually moved out of Deadwood, where they homesteaded a ranch near Sturgis on the Moreau River.
Deadwood, South Dakota
During this time, Alice significantly reduced the amount of time spent in gaming houses as she helped with the ranch and raised her children. But, Alice was doomed to be luckier at cards than at love. When Tubbs was diagnosed with tuberculosis, she was determined to stay by his side and nurse him back to health. Tubbs; however, lost the fight and died of pneumonia in the winter of 1910. Alice then loaded him into a horse-drawn wagon to take his body to Sturgis for burial. At least one legend says she had to pawn her wedding ring to pay for the funeral and afterward, went to a gambling parlor to earn the money to get her ring back.Poker Alice Gambler
Alice would later say that the time spent on the ranch were some of the happiest days of her life and that during those years, she didn’t miss the saloons and gambling halls, but liked the peace and quiet of the ranch. However, after Tubbs’ death, she was required to once again make a living. She then hired a man named George Huckert to take care of the homestead and moved to Sturgis to earn her way. Huckert was enamored with Alice and proposed marriage to her several times. Finally, Alice married him, saying flippantly, “I owed him so much in back wages; I figured it would be cheaper to marry him than pay him off. So I did.” But the marriage would be short, as Alice found herself widowed once again when Huckert died in 1913.Poker Alice Biography
Sometime later, during Prohibition, Alice opened a saloon called “Poker’s Palace” between Sturgis and Fort Meade that provided not only gambling and liquor but also “women” who serviced the customers. While here, a drunken soldier began to cause havoc in the saloon, destroying the furniture, and causing a ruckus. Alice responded by pulling her .38 and shooting the man. While in jail awaiting trial, she calmly smoked cigars and read the Bible. She was acquitted on grounds of self-defense, but her saloon was shut down in the meantime.
Now, in her 70s and with her beauty and fashionable gowns long gone, Alice struggled in her last years, continuing to gamble, but now dressing in men’s clothing. She occasionally was featured at events like the Diamond Jubilee, in Omaha, Nebraska, as a true frontier character, where she was known to have said, “At my age, I suppose I should be knitting. But I would rather play poker with five or six ‘experts’ than eat.”
She continued to run a “house” of ill-repute in Sturgis during her later years and was often arrested for drunkenness and keeping a disorderly house. Though she paid her fines, she continued to operate the business until she was finally arrested for repeated convictions of running a brothel and sentenced to prison. However, Alice, who 75 years old at the time, was pardoned by the governor.
At the age of 79, she underwent a gall bladder operation in Rapid City but died of complications on February 27, 1930. She was buried at St. Aloysius Cemetery in Sturgis, South Dakota.Poker Alice Coin
In her later years, Alice claimed to have won more than $250,000 at the gaming tables and never once cheated. In fact, one of her favorite sayings was: “Praise the Lord and place your bets. I’ll take your money with no regrets.”
© Kathy Weiser/Legends of America, updated October 2019.Poker Alice Elizabeth Taylor
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Alice Ivers (1851-February 27, 1930), better known as Poker Alice, was a famous poker player. Her family moved from Devon, England, where she was born, to Virginia, United States, where she went to school and was raised. As an adult, Ivers moved to Leadville, Colorado where she met her husband Frank Duffield.
*Poker Alice Band
*Poker Alice Gambler
*Poker Alice Biography
*Poker Alice Coin
*Poker Alice Elizabeth Taylor
Poker Alice married George Huckert but George died in 1913 and that made Alice a widow for the third time. During Prohibition, Alice opened a saloon called “Poker’s Palace” the establishment was well known for gambling, liquor, and prostitution. The police closed down the house because of an incident and Alice spent some time in jail. Poker Alice (TV Movie 1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Posted by Jack Tzekov, July 10, 2014
Poker Alice (1851 - 1930), was a famous poker player in the American West. She stood out not only as one of the earliest women poker players, but also as one of the most well-known Old West gamblers. In fact, of all the Old West women to make their mark in history, Poker Alice was respected as an honest, hard-working businesswoman who didn’t hesitate to defend her family and business interests.
In the pages below, talented illustrator Jack Tzekov brings color to Poker Alice’s amazing story. This poker comic is based on real and fictitious events around the life and legend of a fascinating person. Poker Alice made a mark on card game history and established herself as a famous Old West woman.
Download The Story of Poker Alice in PDF format.
In ’62 Abe Lincoln said America won’t rest Until we lay the iron road and join her East and West As the Union and the Central raced to fill the dream A Bible-totin’ English gal brought me to my knees
*Poker Alice The “Queen of the Western Gamblers” was Alice Ivers. She was both gambler and madam. She also had a religious side, closing her brothel on Sundays where she taught Sunday school lessons to her girls in the parlor where the other six days of the week were devoted to highly secular frolics.
*The Poker Alice is a home away from home. This cottage sleeps 8 people and if rented with the Wild Bill can sleep up to 12 people with 3 bathrooms. It has a full kitchen so you can prepare your favorite meals. A living room and dinning area.
She Said, call me Poker Alice you’re on my Midnight run A game of three-card Monte, sir, a round of Five and One? Praise the Lord and place your bets, there’s many a mile to ride I’m Poker Alice Ivers and I’ll take you down the line
Alice, you’re a beauty but the way you play’s not fair Straights and flushes never win, or Aces in a pair Your icy stare is breakin’ me the coolest in the land But I believe a Queen of Hearts lies hidden in your hand
She said wagerin’ fo me-friend is risky You’re better off to drown youself in whiskey And don’t forget a double-cross will earn a fair reward I’ll send a man to Kingdom Come with my forty-four
In Deadwood, South Dakota a saloon beside the tracks Was home to Alice girls who made a livin’ on their backs But every single Sunday she shut the tables down And preached the Good Word to the girls and everyone in town
She Said, call me Poker Alice you’re on my Midnight run A game of three-card Monte, sir, a round of Five and One? Praise the Lord and place your bets, there’s many a mile to ride I’m Poker Alice Ivers and I’ll take you down the line
Alice died in poverty her fortunes turned to dust Upon her grave they carved these words: Alone In God We Trust I wonder if she rode those rails from earth to paradise ‘Cause standin’ there I swear I heard her singin’ in the pines:
Praise the Lord and place your bets, there’s many a mile to ride I’m Poker Alice Ivers and I’ll take you down the line
Music and lyrics by California resident, Larry Potts (larrypottsmusic.com), who has won considerable acclaim by winning and placing in numerous songwriting competitions. The story of Poker Alice, famous frontier gambler, text version
Poker Alice Ivers was a famous player in the old American West. She was a professional gambler who owned a brothel. She was a bootlegger and a convicted felon. She smoke cigars, carried a gun, and she killed a man!
Alice Ivers was born on February 17, 1851 in Devonshire, England, or so she claimed. Some sources say she was born in 1853 in Virginia to Irish immigrants.
While in her late teens, Alice’s family moved to Leadville, Colorado. There she met and married Frank Duffield, sometime in the 1870s.
Duffield was a mining engineer who played poker in his spare time. He taught Alice how to play the game and she found that she had a good head for counting cards and figuring odds. Most women only played poker at home at the time.
Alice accompanied her husband to the gambling parlors and soon started sitting in on the games.
After just a few years of marriage, Duffield was killed in a mining accident and Alice was forced to make money by gambling and working as a dealer.
Throughout the 1880s, Alice worked in saloons across the west as a faro and poker dealer. Her skill and beauty resulted in very good pay. It is likely that she worked the gambling halls in the Colorado towns of Alamosa, Georgetown, Trinidad, Central City and Leadville, as wells as those in Silver City, New Mexico, before moving to Deadwood, South Dakota.
She was an attractive woman who wore the finest clothes with fancy low-cut gowns, ostrich plumes and other fancies of the day, using her looks to distract male players.
During this time, Alice was reputed to have made as much as $6,000 at the gambling tables on a good night - a huge amount of money back then.
In Deadwood she met Warren G. Tubbs, a housepainter from Sturgis and a fellow card dealer. Their romance started when Alice shot a man in the arm who had been threatening Tubbs with a knife.
Alice Ivers and Warren Tubbs married and had four sons and three daughters together. While her children were growing up, Alice tried to keep them away from the gambling houses and at one point she and Tubbs decided to homestead a ranch northeast of Sturgis on the Moreau River.
Alice’s time at the Moreau Ranch was some of the happiest in her life. She liked the peace and quiet and never missed the saloons and gambling halls.
It was likely that Warren’s painting jobs in so many different houses exposed him to tuberculosis and caused him to fall sick with the disease.
Warren Tubbs died in 1910 of pneumonia during a blizzard. To pay for his funeral, Alice had to pawn her wedding ring, which led her back to the poker tables. She took his body back to Sturgis for burial.
Alice’s third husband was George Huckert, a worker on her homestead taking care of the sheep. He was constantly proposing to her, yet for awhile she did not agree. However, Alice owed him $1,008, so she married him figuring that it would be cheaper than paying his back wages. Huckert died in 1913.
In 1910, Ivers opened ’Poker’s Palace,’ a saloon in Fort Meade, South Dakota which offered gambling and liquor downstairs, and prostitution upstairs.
The saloon was always closed on Sundays because of Ivers’ proclaimed religious beliefs, however, in 1913, some drunken soldiers disobeyed Alice’s ’no work on Sunday’ rule and ran on rampage in the house.
It was then that Ivers fired her gun.
The shot ended up killing one of the soldiers and injuring another. Alice was arrested, along with six of her prostitutes.
Ivers’ time spent in jail was short, but she got through it by reading the bible and smoking cigars. At the trial, she claimed self-defense and was acquitted. Shortly after the trial, her saloon was shut down.
In 1928, she was sentenced to prison for repeated offenses of operating a brother. Ivers did not up jailed because she was pardoned by then governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota, who took this action because of her old age.
Alice claimed that she had won more than $250,000 in gambling money over the years and that she never once cheated. Both of these claims are probably true. Poker Alice didn’t have to cheat. She knew how to count cards and she knew how to figure the odds. Plus, she was always skillful at ’reading’ other players while remaining stone-faced herself.
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. The TV movie ’Poker Alice,’ in which the titular cigar-smoking and bordello-owning poker player was portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor, was fictionalized to the point that the character had a different last name.
Jack Tzekov is an art director, graphic and web designer and illustrator who works at Bearbrook Studios. He atttends the Academy of Art University and lives in Ottawa, Canada.
Poker Alice BandView the discussion thread.“At my age I suppose I should be knitting. But I would rather play poker with five or six ‘experts’ than eat.”— Alice Ivers Tubbs; aka Poker Alice
Perhaps the best known female poker player in the Old West, Alice Ivers Tubbs, better known as “Poker Alice”, hailed from England. Born on February 17, 1851, in Devonshire, she was the daughter of a conservative schoolmaster who moved the family to the United States when she was still a small girl. First settling in Virginia, Alice attended an elite boarding school for young women until the family moved again in her teenage years, to the silver rush in Leadville, Colorado.
While there, Alice met a mining engineer by the name of Frank Duffield and the two married when she was 20. Gambling was a way of life in the many mining camps of the Old West and when Frank, an enthusiastic player, visited the many gambling halls in Leadville, young Alice went along with him rather than stay home alone. At first, the pretty young girl stood quietly behind her husband, simply watching the play. However, a quick study, it wasn’t long before she was sitting in on the games, quickly demonstrating proficiency for poker and faro.
Leadville, Colorado at Dusk by Carol Highsmith.
A few years after their marriage, Alice’s husband, who worked as a mining engineer, was killed in an explosion and she was left alone with no means of support. With her education, she might have taught school; however, even though the mining camp flourishing with some 35,000 residents, it didn’t have a school. The few remaining jobs available to women in a mining camp did not appeal to Alice and she soon decided to try to make a living with her gambling skills. Though she preferred the game of poker, she also learned to deal and play Faro and was soon in high demand, both as a player and a dealer. At this time, Alice was a petite 5’4” beauty, with blue eyes and lush brown hair. A “lady” in a gambling hall that wasn’t of the “soiled dove” variety was rare in the Old West and bedecked in the latest fashions, she was a sight for the sore eyes of many a miner.
Traveling from one mining camp to another, the talented young beauty soon acquired the nickname “Poker Alice.” In addition to playing the game, she often worked as a dealer, in cities all over Colorado including Alamosa, Central City, Georgetown, and Trinidad. As time went on, Alice began to puff on large black cigars, while still in her fashionable frilly dresses; however, she never gambled on Sundays because of her religious beliefs. She also carried a .38 revolver and wasn’t afraid to use it. As her reputation grew throughout the west, she always found willing players and she attracted men looking for a challenge. As such, she was quickly welcomed in gambling halls because the crowd she drew was good for business.
Alice soon left Colorado and made her way to Silver City, New Mexico, where she broke the bank at the Gold Dust Gambling House, winning some $6,000. Sometime later, she made a trip to New York City, which she often did after a large win, to replenish her wardrobe of fashionable clothing.
Afterward, she returned to Creede, Colorado, where she went to work as a dealer in Bob Ford’s saloon – the very same Bob Ford who had earlier killed Jesse James.
Alice eventually made her way to Deadwood, South Dakota around 1890. While there, she met a man named Warren G. Tubbs, who worked as a housepainter in Sturgis, but sidelined as a dealer and gambler.
Though she routinely beat Tubbs at the gaming tables, he was taken with her and the two began to see each other outside of the gambling halls. On one occasion when a drunken miner threatened Tubbs with a knife, Alice pulled out her .38 and put a bullet into the miner’s arm. Tubbs and Alice eventually married and the couple would have seven children. A painter by trade, Tubbs, along with Alice’s gambling profits, supported the family. The couple eventually moved out of Deadwood, where they homesteaded a ranch near Sturgis on the Moreau River.
Deadwood, South Dakota
During this time, Alice significantly reduced the amount of time spent in gaming houses as she helped with the ranch and raised her children. But, Alice was doomed to be luckier at cards than at love. When Tubbs was diagnosed with tuberculosis, she was determined to stay by his side and nurse him back to health. Tubbs; however, lost the fight and died of pneumonia in the winter of 1910. Alice then loaded him into a horse-drawn wagon to take his body to Sturgis for burial. At least one legend says she had to pawn her wedding ring to pay for the funeral and afterward, went to a gambling parlor to earn the money to get her ring back.Poker Alice Gambler
Alice would later say that the time spent on the ranch were some of the happiest days of her life and that during those years, she didn’t miss the saloons and gambling halls, but liked the peace and quiet of the ranch. However, after Tubbs’ death, she was required to once again make a living. She then hired a man named George Huckert to take care of the homestead and moved to Sturgis to earn her way. Huckert was enamored with Alice and proposed marriage to her several times. Finally, Alice married him, saying flippantly, “I owed him so much in back wages; I figured it would be cheaper to marry him than pay him off. So I did.” But the marriage would be short, as Alice found herself widowed once again when Huckert died in 1913.Poker Alice Biography
Sometime later, during Prohibition, Alice opened a saloon called “Poker’s Palace” between Sturgis and Fort Meade that provided not only gambling and liquor but also “women” who serviced the customers. While here, a drunken soldier began to cause havoc in the saloon, destroying the furniture, and causing a ruckus. Alice responded by pulling her .38 and shooting the man. While in jail awaiting trial, she calmly smoked cigars and read the Bible. She was acquitted on grounds of self-defense, but her saloon was shut down in the meantime.
Now, in her 70s and with her beauty and fashionable gowns long gone, Alice struggled in her last years, continuing to gamble, but now dressing in men’s clothing. She occasionally was featured at events like the Diamond Jubilee, in Omaha, Nebraska, as a true frontier character, where she was known to have said, “At my age, I suppose I should be knitting. But I would rather play poker with five or six ‘experts’ than eat.”
She continued to run a “house” of ill-repute in Sturgis during her later years and was often arrested for drunkenness and keeping a disorderly house. Though she paid her fines, she continued to operate the business until she was finally arrested for repeated convictions of running a brothel and sentenced to prison. However, Alice, who 75 years old at the time, was pardoned by the governor.
At the age of 79, she underwent a gall bladder operation in Rapid City but died of complications on February 27, 1930. She was buried at St. Aloysius Cemetery in Sturgis, South Dakota.Poker Alice Coin
In her later years, Alice claimed to have won more than $250,000 at the gaming tables and never once cheated. In fact, one of her favorite sayings was: “Praise the Lord and place your bets. I’ll take your money with no regrets.”
© Kathy Weiser/Legends of America, updated October 2019.Poker Alice Elizabeth Taylor
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