Who was shot dead while playing poker in Deadwood South Dakota?

The most famous poker-related death in Deadwood, South Dakota, was not a shooting but a stabbing. It was Wild Bill Hickok, a legendary lawman and gambler, who was shot and killed while playing poker in Deadwood in 1876.

While he was playing cards, Jack McCall, a disgruntled gambler, walked up behind Hickok and shot him in the back of the head.

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