With his fast talk about how to "strategize" a craps table, his self- designed gold-inlaid ruby belt buckle and a jet-black Western shirt embroidered with two crimson roses, Ken Wickham, 63, is the very image of a high-rolling gambler. He stands 6 ft. 6 in. in his 10-gallon hat that is festooned with red feathers and a Hopi rain-dance pin for good luck. Wickham soon lets you know he's no ordinary man: he says he's an evangelist minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World War II and played a sergeant alongside war hero Audie...
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