What is the name of the man in america who was shot in the back whilst playing cards in the 1800s.?

Question

he was playing cards.poker or blackjack, shot in the back or back of the head and when theey found him he was holding aces

Answer 1

On August 2, 1876, while playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory, Hickok could not find an empty seat in the corner, where he always sat in order to protect himself against sneak attacks from behind, and instead sat with his back to one door and facing another. His paranoia was prescient: he was shot in the back of the head with a .45-caliber revolver by Jack McCall. Legend has it that Hickok was playing poker when he was shot, was holding a pair of aces, a pair of eights, and a queen. The fifth card is debated, or, as some say, had not yet been dealt. "Aces and eights" thus is known as the "Dead Man's Hand". In 1979 Hickok was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.

Answer 2

Wild Bill Hickock was killed in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, shot in the back of the head while playing poker.  He was holding two pairs- aces and eights, now known as the dead man's hand.

Answer 3

Peggylu is wrong - that man was not Doc Holiday.

The man of whom you speak was Wild Bill Hickock, he was shot in Deadwood, South Dakota, and was holding a hand of Aces and 8s.  The table and hand are permanently on display in the same saloon, still open today.  

To this day, gamblers worldwide call the Aces and 8s combo the "Dead Man's Hand".

Answer 4

Wild bill Hickok was the man holding the aces , and after that called a dead mans hand  

Answer 5

Wild Bill Hickock at Deadwood South Dakota

Answer 6

that man was doc holiday. he was holding aces and eights. it's called the dead mans ahnd since then