One of a kind: the rise and fall of stuey ', the kid', ungar, the world's greatest poker player 978-1-4165-1018-5, 1-4165-1018-4
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
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English Year 2014
Table of contents :
Content: Cover
Also by Peter Alson
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Mike Sexton
A Note to the Reader
1 The Kid
2 Bookmaker's Boy
3 Gin Joints, Big Dogs, and Monkey's Business
4 A Made Man
5 Beginnings and Endings
6 Raising the Stakes
7 Both Ends Against the Middle
8 The Second Time Around
9 World Champ
10 A Taste of Honey
11 High Rolling
21 Cards in the Air
13 The Hand of Death and the Sport of Kings
14 Get Up, Stand Up
15 Heart of a Champ
16 Chasing the Dragon
17 The Comeback Kid
18 Stuck
19 The River Card
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Reading
