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The Vig (Paperback)
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.
An overeducated underachiever, Peter Alson spent his post-college
decades doing his best not to grow up. But having just turned
fifty, this rambling-gambling bachelor decides it's time to settle
down. So he pops the question to his longtime girlfriend, then
hatches a plan to pay for their wedding -- involving poker and a
trip to Las Vegas. Boarding a plane bound for the neon desert and
the biggest game in town -- the 2005 World Series of Poker -- this
inveterate gambler and bad boy stares down his past and his future
while competing for over $56 million in prize money.
"Take Me to the River" is a hilarious, wrenching, full-tilt
Vegas exploration of one man's obsession with poker and the lessons
it has to offer -- about probability and luck, good fortune and
bad, patience, perseverance, and -- most fitting for a man with
marriage in his near future -- commitment.
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