Joe the version you found without attribution and posted 23 Jan 02 is the one printed in John A. Lomax, 1910, "Cowboy Songs,' minus two verses.
These concern Monte Pete (in Claire Bear's post, with a few differences), and one about Wylie Bill, neither in Claire Bear's nor in Lingenfelter and Dwyer's versions.

There is Wylie Bill, the funny man,
Who was full of funny tricks,
And when he was in a poker game
He was always hard as bricks.
He would ante you a stud, he would play you a draw,
He'd go you a hatful blind,--
In a struggle with death Bill lost his breath
In the days of Forty-Nine.

There was Monte Pete, I'll ne'er forget
The luck he always had,
He would deal for you both day and night
Or as long as he had a scad.
It was a pistol shot that lay Pete out,
It was his last resign,
And it caught Pete dead sure in the door
In the days of Forty-Nine.

Note "It was his last resign" in Lomax and "'Twas his last layout in fine" in Bear's post and in Lingenfelter and Dwyer.
Lomax provides no notes; pp. 9-11.

In Lomax and Lomax, 1938, pp. 378-381, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads," a new rendering, "from Florence N. Gleason of Bakersfield. CA," is printed (no other notes).
"North Carolina Jess" becomes "Old Lame Jess."
"Wylie Bill" is discarded and replaced with "Poker Bill," a different verse.

There's Poker Bill, one of the boys,
Who was always in for a game,
Whether he lost or whether he won,
To him it was always the same.
He would ante you a slug, or rush the buck,
He'd go you a hatful blind--
In the game of death Bill lost his breath
In the days of Forty-Nine.
In the game of death Bill lost his breath
In the days of Forty-Nine.

The music given in the 1938 Gleason rendition is somewhat different from the Bensell-Zimmer sheet music in Lingenfelter and Dwyer. No music was provided in the 1910 edition.