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One of a kind : the rise and fall of Stuey "the Kid" Ungar, the world's greatest poker player / Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson ; foreword by Mike Sexton.
- Title
- One of a kind : the rise and fall of Stuey "the Kid" Ungar, the world's greatest poker player / Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson ; foreword by Mike Sexton.
- Author
- Dalla, Nolan
- Publication
- New York : Atria Books, 2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Alson, Peter
- Description
- xvi, 316 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Profiles poker champion Stuey Ungar, offering insight into his meteoric career as one of the game's most feared tournament players, the factors behind his tragic change of circumstances, and his early death at the age of forty-five.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1 The Kid 1 -- 2 Bookmaker's Boy 5 -- 3 Gin Joints, Big Dogs, and Monkey's Business 23 -- 4 A Made Man 45 -- 5 Beginnings and Endings 59 -- 6 Raising the Stakes 69 -- 7 Both Ends Against the Middle 81 -- 8 The Second Time Around 97 -- 9 World Champ 117 -- 10 A Taste of Honey 133 -- 11 High Rolling 145 -- 12 Cards in the Air 167 -- 13 The Hand of Death and the Sport of Kings 181 -- 14 Get Up, Stand Up 197 -- 15 Heart of a Champ 211 -- 16 Chasing the Dragon 227 -- 17 The Comeback Kid 241 -- 18 Stuck 263 -- 19 The River Card 283.
- ISBN
- 0743476581 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005045334
- OCLC
- 59818166
- SCSB-12365710
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library