At age 77, Titanic co-hosted the first World Series of Poker. Here, WSOP inventor Benny Binion has his left hand on Ti’s shoulder.

Minnesota Fats and Hubert “Daddy Warbucks” Cokes

The U.K. edition of Titanic Thompson. Find out more on picador.com

Arnold “the Brain” Rothstein, the crime boss who fixed the 1919 “Black Sox” World Series—and fell afoul of Titanic nine years later.

Titanic backed touring pro Raymond Floyd in a “secretly famous” money match against Trevino.

Soon after teaming with Ti for hustles at a pitch-and-putt course, Lee Trevino won the 1968 U.S. Open.

Ti delayed the Rothstein murder trial with a convenient case of pleurisy.

Even on trial for murder, huddling with his lawyer, George “Hump” McManus kept smiling.

Rogers, Arkansas, where Alvin “Titanic” Thompson grew up.