loopmeister
Rock Star
Silver Level
Stu Ungar won the wsop three times. He was unbeatable in Gin and is (arguably) referred to as "the greatest poker player of all time".
The guy had a phenomenal talent for card games, but his tragic flaw (one that Shakespeare would have been proud of) was a powder cask-like self-destructive personality. His fate was sealed from birth, since his father was a bookie in NYC. There are millions of stories of people ruining their lives due to various addictions, but seldom any about a person who had such a genuine talent as "The kid", which I suppose is the books main deceit.
I'd call "One of a kind" the "Requiem for a dream" of poker literature.
Any comments?
The guy had a phenomenal talent for card games, but his tragic flaw (one that Shakespeare would have been proud of) was a powder cask-like self-destructive personality. His fate was sealed from birth, since his father was a bookie in NYC. There are millions of stories of people ruining their lives due to various addictions, but seldom any about a person who had such a genuine talent as "The kid", which I suppose is the books main deceit.
I'd call "One of a kind" the "Requiem for a dream" of poker literature.
Any comments?