2023-08-15 Tue 10:52 Who's the old west guy who never wanted to play poker with his back to the room, always wanted his back to the wall, and at one point he took the only remaining seat at a table which did have back to the room, and he was shot in the head? > [!ai]+ AI > > The Old West figure you're referring to is James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok. He was shot from behind and killed while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota) by Jack McCall on August 2, 1876. The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death (black aces and eights) has come to be known as the "dead man's hand."