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He was an Ace Among Poker's Kings Before Caving in at 454 July 2005LAS VEGAS -- As reported by the New York Times: "In Las Vegas terms, it's almost a rite of spring: A talented newcomer plants his elbows on the cash-green felt of a big-money table at the World Series of Poker. He gets on a roll, starts talking some trash, and inevitably, the murmurs start. "He's the next Stuey," somebody will say. "He's another Kid." "...Stu, or Stuey the Kid, Ungar was the swashbuckling enfant terrible of poker before it blew up into a mainstream obsession in the 1990s. The diminutive son of a bookmaker from Manhattan's Lower East Side, he won his back-to-back World Series of Poker titles by the unheard of age of 27 and went on to win, and lose, $30 million by one estimate before his epic taste for excess left him dead, in a cheap Las Vegas motel on Nov. 22, 1998, at 45. "...A legend even when he was alive, Ungar left a legacy that has always loomed large at the World Series of Poker. It looms even larger for the hundreds of players roaming the hangarlike convention hall at Harrah's Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, where the tournament continues through July 15. His biography, One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey 'the Kid' Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player, by Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson, hit stores last week..."
He was an Ace Among Poker's Kings Before Caving in at 45
is republished from Online.CasinoCity.com.
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