Poker Authors Write About the Life of the Late Poker Pro Stu Ungar
If a person is very skillful in playing poker, he may be called the best professional poker player or an expert in the field of professional poker but it will hardly enter our minds to call such person a genius. In the poker industry, there are countless of poker professionals who are considered as the best and as successful but we hardly hear them being called geniuses. However, there would always be one professional poker player that had always been called the genius. The poker public will absolutely agree that being called a genius was applicable only to this poker player. And this poker player was the late Stu Ungar. And we are grateful for poker authors Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson to have written a poker book about the life of Stu Ungar. Such poker book, titled "One of a Kind," is definitely an inspiring one for poker enthusiasts.
Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson gave their book the title "One of a Kind" because of the fact that Stu Ungar was, and will remain to be, the one and only genius in the poker world. The contents of "One of a Kind" are based on the interviews conducted by Nolan Dalla with Stu Ungar prior to the latter's death in 1998. Nolan Dalla was fortunate to have conducted interviews with Stu Ungar in an extensive manner because the outcome of "One of a Kind" looks as if it was written from a personal angle.
The first chapters of "One of a Kind" recount how Stu Ungar was raised in New York and his experience after relocating to Las Vegas, Nevada. Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson relate the expertise of Stu Ungar in the game of Gin Rummy prior to becoming an expert in playing poker. Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson successfully relate everything they know about the life of Stu Ungar, including his teenage life, his life as a drug addict, and his life as a family man.
Other poker books about Stu Ungar are not as admirable as "One of a Kind." Some biographical works about Stu Ungar seem like unrealistic because of the authors' tendency to glamorize their subject matter. It is different in the case of "One of a Kind" because of the fact that Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson have sufficient information on the life of their subject. Because of this, both authors became comfortable the whole time they were writing this poker book.
"One of a Kind" chronicles not only the success of Stu Ungar in the poker world but also his failures as far as his personal life was concerned. Because of this fact, readers get to ponder as they turn every page of this poker book. For instance, readers will get to thinking whether they should admire Stu Ungar, praise his poker skills, or stop idolizing him because of the fact that he became a drug addict. "One of a Kind" is indeed a compelling poker book.