The Man Behind the Shades: The Rise and Fall of Poker's Greatest Player

by Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson

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The extraordinary life of the best poker player who ever lived

When Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar took his first World Series of Poker title, one journalist asked him what he would do with the money. His answer: 'Gamble it'.

Stuey grew up among the hoodlums and wiseguys of New York's Lower East Side. A pint-sized high-school drop out who never worked a day in his life, never had a bank account or paid a penny in taxes, he lived to gamble and became the world's most feared card player. From the multi-million dollar fortune he won and lost, the addictions that consumed him, and one of the greatest phoenix-from-the-ashes comebacks of all time, this is the story of a Las Vegas legend.

  • ISBN10 0753820773
  • ISBN13 9780753820773
  • Publish Date 4 May 2006 (first published 11 August 2005)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 352
  • Language English