One of a Kind
The Rise and Fall of Stuey ',The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player
Stuey Ungar, the son of a Lower East Side bookie, grew up in a New York of the 1950s and '60s that was straight out of Damon Runyon. By his early teens, he had dropped out of high school and was spending most of his time in the city's under- ground card rooms. So prodigious was his talent for playing gin rummy that he soon found himself bankrolled by members of the Genovese crime family. After thrashing every top gin player on the East Coast, he was forced to broaden his horizons--traveling around the country to find opponents and also learning other card games, including poker. At twenty-one, he moved to Las Vegas for good and quickly found…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Alson, Peter
- ISBN: 978-1-4165-1018-5
- EAN: 9781416510185
- Produktnummer: 14619423
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 744 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 8pp b&w insert
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Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson; Foreword by Mike Sexton
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