Friday, March 27, 2026
Poker Alice
Perhaps the best-known female poker player in the Old West, Alice Ivers Tubbs, better known as “Poker Alice,” hailed from England. Born on February 17, 1851, in Devonshire, she was the daughter of a conservative schoolmaster who moved the family to the United States when she was still a small girl. After settling in Virginia, Alice attended an elite boarding school for young women until, in her teenage years, the family moved again to the Silver Rush in Leadville, Colorado.
