The Rise and Fall of Stuey ',The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player
by Nolan Dalla
Recommended by Jason Calacanis
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Sports, and Nonfiction.
Now in paperback comes the first and authorized biography of Stuey Ungar, the greatest card player of all time, who was backed by the Mob in New York before moving to Las Vegas where he won the World Series of Poker three times, then died mysteriously in a seedy motel on the Vegas strip at the age of 45.He was the Jim Morrison of the casino, a lege...
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Consider Big Deal by Anthony Holden. Recommended by 2 sources.
“Reading this feels like shadowing a curious travel writer who has wandered into a closed-off subculture. Holden spends a year embedded with professional poker players across Las Vegas, Malta, Morocco and at sea, narrating hands, personalities, and barroom repartee while folding in moments of self-reflection. What works best is lively, anecdotal immersion — scenes of stakes, banter, and travel that bring the game to life. The main limitation is repetition and jargon: narrative momentum stalls when similar stories and name-dropping pile up, and it offers little in the way of practical poker instruction.”
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