What is Poker Alice?
{{sources|date=January 2025}} '''Alice Ivers''' (February 17, 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. Duffield was responsible for getting Ivers interested in poker, but he was killed a few years after they got 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 [[Western saloon|saloon]] that was owned by [[Bob Ford]], the man who killed [[Jesse James]] <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-pokeralice.html|title=OLD WEST LEGENDS;Poker Alice - Famous Frontier Gambler}}</ref> ==Early life== “Poker” Alice Ivers was born on February 17, 1851 in [[Devon]], England to Irish Immigrants. Her family moved to Virginia when Alice was 12. As a young woman, she went to [[boarding school]] in Virginia to become a refined lady. While in her late teens, her family moved to Leadville, a city in the [[Colorado Territory]]. ==Personal life== It was in Leadville that Alice met Frank Duffield, whom she married at a young age. Frank Duffield was a mining engineer who played poker in his spare time. After just a few years of marriage, Duffield was killed in an accident while resetting a dynamite charge in a Leadville mine. Ivers was known for splurging her winnings, as when she won a lot of money in Silver City and spent it all in New York. After all of her big wins, she would travel to New York and spend her money on clothes. She was very keen on keeping up with the latest [[fashion]]s and would buy dresses to wear to play poker. Alice met her next husband around 1890 when she was a dealer in Bedrock Tom’s saloon in [[Deadwood, South Dakota]]. When a drunken miner tried to attack her fellow dealer Warren G. Tubbs with a knife, Alice threatened