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One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player
One of a Kind The Rise and Fall of Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar the World's Greatest Poker Player
Author: Nolan Dalla, Peter Alson
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743476584
ISBN-10: 0743476581
Publication Date: 6/28/2005
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Atria
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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