One Of A Kind

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Reader beware the seductive blue flame. To illuminate the triumphant yet scorchingly hideous forty-five years Stuey Ungar spent among us, Datla and Alson have produced an acetylene torch of a book. There was no other way to write a story like this. One ofa Kind is a lesson in no-limit hold'em as well as a terrifying pleasure.' —James McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street
He was the Jim Morrison of the casino, a legend before he was of legal age. Stuey Ungar, the son of a Jewish bookie on Manhattans Lower East Side, dropped out of high school to become an underground card-table sensation, eventually taking out every top gin-rummy player on the East Coast. Bankrolled by the Genovese crime family, Stuey would soon travel around the country in search of new opponents and opportunities—including poker. He would go on to win the World Series of Poker a record three times. And then his luck began to run out
One of a Kind is the startling tale of a man who won at his game and lost... Tovább

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Reader beware the seductive blue flame. To illuminate the triumphant yet scorchingly hideous forty-five years Stuey Ungar spent among us, Datla and Alson have produced an acetylene torch of a book. There was no other way to write a story like this. One ofa Kind is a lesson in no-limit hold'em as well as a terrifying pleasure.' —James McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street
He was the Jim Morrison of the casino, a legend before he was of legal age. Stuey Ungar, the son of a Jewish bookie on Manhattans Lower East Side, dropped out of high school to become an underground card-table sensation, eventually taking out every top gin-rummy player on the East Coast. Bankrolled by the Genovese crime family, Stuey would soon travel around the country in search of new opponents and opportunities—including poker. He would go on to win the World Series of Poker a record three times. And then his luck began to run out
One of a Kind is the startling tale of a man who won at his game and lost control of his life. Whether tossing away his winnings at the racetrack or on a single roll of the dice, Stuey was notorious for gambling every single dollar in his pocket. Though he had won an estimated $30 million in his iifetime, Stuey had no bank account, not even a home address. He was found dead in a Vegas motel—with $800 in cash on his person,the only money he had left—atthe age of forty-five.
An intimate, authorized biography—Nolan Dalla was commissioned by Stuey in 1998 to pen his story, resulting in hundreds of hours of taped interviews and conversations—One of a Kind illuminâtes the dark genius of one of poker's most memorable figures. Vissza