there is a large rodeo stock auction called "Benny Binion's World Famous Bucking Horse and Bull Sale." Binion was also the owner of a horse named "Nigger" (later referred to as "Benny Binion's Gelding") who was the 1946, 1947 and 1948 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) World Champion. Bred by Binion, ridden and trained by George Glascock, the solid black 15 hand gelding is the only horse to capture the NCHA World Championship three years in a row. Death Binion died of heart failure at the age of 85 on December 5, 1989, in Las Vegas. Poker great "Amarillo Slim" Preston suggested as an epitaph, "He was either the gentlest bad guy or the baddest good guy you'd ever seen." He was posthumously inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1990. See also History of vice in Texas Sam Maceo References Further reading Ann Arnold. 1998. Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth's Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s, Eakin Press Cathy Scott. 2000. Death in the Desert: The Ted Binion Homicide Case, 1st Book Library Jim Gatewood. 2002. Benny Binion: The legend of Benny Binion, Dallas gambler and mob boss, Mullaney Corp Jay Robert Nash, 1993. World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime, Da Capo Press Ed Reid and Ovid Demaris. 1963. The Green Felt Jungle, Buccaneer Books Gary Sleeper. 2006. I'll Do My Own Damn Killin': Benny Binion, Herbert Noble, and the Texas Gambling War, Barricade Books Doug J. Swanson. 2014. Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, The Texas Gangster Who Created Las Vegas Poker, Penguin External links Article about Binion being one of the first 100 people to shape Las Vegas Interview in 1973 1904 births 1989 deaths American casino industry businesspeople American crime bosses American people convicted of tax crimes American poker players Businesspeople from Texas People convicted of murder by Texas People from Dallas People from El Paso, Texas People from Grayson County, Texas People from the Las Vegas Valley World Series of Poker Poker Hall of Fame inductees