Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Poker has embedded itself into high stakes gambling cultures across the globe.

After all, what's higher stakes than thousands of dollars floating around the table on the

whims of a set of 52 cards, assigned randomly, where the challengers attempt to bluff one

another into thinking that they have the best assortment of said cards.

It's really something.

Of course, given the high stakes nature of it all, Poker has also led to its fair share

of memorable characters, although perhaps none more fascinating than one woman, Alice

Ivers Duffield Tubbs Huckert.

And if you don't mind, I'm just going to call her Alice.

Alice was an Irish immigrant born in 1851 who found herself in the Colorado Territory

by the time she was a teenager, after her first husband died in a mining accident and she

lost her job as a teacher, Alice turned to another form of financial support.

Poker.

It turns out she was really good, like really good.

Before long she had earned the name Poker Alice, and large crowds would gather to watch

her play.

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