one of a kind - the rise and fall of stu unger |
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Posted Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:40 pm GMT by hehateme36
anyone else see this documenatry on tv? it was really amazing... had no idea he was a coke head i ddint no anything about him
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Posted Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:53 pm GMT by Gogie
Read his biography. The guy was a genius. As good as he was at poker, he was even better at gin rummy. His life was a real tragic story, but in the end he brought a lot of it on himself. Very sad.
{edit - I stand corrected and have replaced "backgammon" with "gin rummy". I was involved in a couple of online tournaments when I originally wrote this, so I wasn't really paying attention!}
Posted Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:08 pm GMT by Johny
It was gin rummy that he was insanely good at...
Posted Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:12 am GMT by MasterShake
| Johny wrote: | | It was gin rummy that he was insanely good at... |
Yup. He was playing against a known cheater...that go caught cheating...DURING HIS GAME...and he still won. :D
Posted Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:40 am GMT by Poto
I just got the book 'One of a kind'. Looking forward to reading it, I've heard a lot of rumors about Stu, but I've never actually read anything about him.
Posted Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:47 am GMT by hehateme36
it said in the show that he wore those funny glasses that sat on his nose because his nose collapsed from so much cocane.
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