Trademark Poker 'One of a Kind - The Rise and Fall of Stuey Ungar' (Paperback)

In One of a Kind, authors Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson tell the startling tale of a man who managed to win millions of dollars and live the highest of high-roller lives without ever quite understanding or respecting the value of money. Whether tossing away his winnings at the reacetrack or on a single roll of the dice, Ungar was notorious for gambling every single dollar in his pocket on a daily basis. The risk that he embodied in his gambling carried over to his personal life. He had no concept of night or day. He didn't own a wristwatch, didn't have a bank account and for years had no home address or personal possessions. For all his gambling successes, at the end of his life he bounced between hotel rooms, casinos and crack houses, dependent upon the kindness of friends and strangers: The paperback version of this intimate, authorized biography illuminates the dark genius of poker's most charismatic and mysterious star, who could ruthlessly peer into and read other men's souls but seemed baffled and powerless when confronted with his own.