Among the most famous women gamblers of the frontier was Poker Alice. Nicknamed for her game of choice, she is estimated to have won over $225,000 during her 60- year career as a professional poker player in the latter half of the 1800s.

Alice Ivers was born in England in 1851 and immigrated to America with her parents when she was three years old. The only daughter of a schoolmaster, she was educated at a fashionable women’s seminary in the South and brought up to be a respected lady of society.

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