Amarillo, Texas – Texas poker great Amarillo Slim was beaten and robbed while trying to take collateral on a USD 3,000 gambling debt he was owed, police said Thursday. Amarillo Police Lt. Jim McKenny said the 80-year-old former world champion poker player, whose real name is Thomas Preston, was beaten after being lured to a field Tuesday night expecting to receiver a four-wheeler as collateral. Preston went to the hospital with a broken jaw, hand and thumb, he told the Amarillo Globe-News.