amarillo slim said in an interview that he was misquoted about woman not being able to play poker, he was talking to a specific woman when she said she was gonna win it. her name was vira and the exact quote was "Vera, if you win the World Series of Poker you can take a dull knife and cut my throat!" i got this from
[url]http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/interviews/amarilloslim-part1.htm[/url].