Peter Alson: 2 books
Take Me to the River
A Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
MEET PETER ALSON
An overeducated underachiever, he's spent his postcollege decades doing his best not to grow up. Now, having just turned the incomprehensible (to him) age of fifty, and staring down his own mortality, this rambling- gambling bachelor decides it's time to settle down. After...
One of a Kind
The Rise and Fall of Stuey ',The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Stuey Ungar, the son of a Lower East Side bookie, grew up in a New York of the 1950s and '60s that was straight out of Damon Runyon. By his early teens, he had dropped out of high school and was spending most of his time in the city's under- ground card rooms. So prodigious was his talent for playing...