Benny Binion could almost be described as the Godfather of Texas Hold'em Poker not because of his definitely shady past but because he was largely responsible for putting this much loved and now highly popular game in the world map, after dragging it by force from the saloons and poker rooms of dusty Dallas of the fifties. Binion's early history shows him being involved in bootlegging and numbers running as well as somehow managing two walk away from two murder charges. In 1946, Binion decided to make a new life for himself in the gambling scene of Las Vegas which was still very much in his early