Poker Alice
Deceased Person
1853 – 1930
Who was Poker Alice?
Alice Ivers Duffield Tubbs Huckert, better known as Poker Alice or Poker Alice Ivers, was a famous poker player in the American West.
Her family moved from Devon, England, where she was born, to Virginia, United States, where she was reared and educated. As an adult, Ivers moved to Leadville, Colorado, where she met her first husband, Frank Duffield. He got Ivers interested in poker, but he was killed a few years after they married. Ivers made a name for herself by winning money from poker games in places like Silver City, New Mexico, and even working at a saloon in Creede, Colorado, that was owned by Bob Ford, the man who killed Jesse James
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