One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stu Ungar / Единственный в своем роде: Взлет и падение Стю Ангер

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0:03doing
0:06mine
0:08didn't easy
0:10the flu
0:11fifty two carts neatly arranged by student rank you on this value is still
0:18more than the number of face with which you to stand jeans but intense on green
0:24frightening group to be touched grandstand on costa connections
0:31bottom-line quicken choreographed perfection berman devilish swirled
0:36infinite possibilities
0:38when suddenly fifty two separate soldiers becoming unforgiving pharmacia
0:43kings and queens kids this isn't just faces in nine's
0:50member values measured in treasuries
0:54candles than hardship and been wasted lives and
0:59demand come on
1:03that's easy
1:06let's play
1:12comes
1:14sting
1:16distance in nobody was going on over to a small room you know what it was better
1:25be involved with what is the exit light years ahead of the other buyers and had
1:29people fear him
1:33someone who would like to see the liver as we say
1:36interested in the sand
1:38east
1:40the people generally was one of the most of what has been delivered most of them
1:45do business with us
1:47solution
1:48needed next season's begins
1:50domain there
1:54them
1:57go with him he was totally different person
2:02plants and animals centel being had the biggest
2:08does to assault
2:14let me just say that there was very carefully
2:20and he would come in and out
2:22with rather bizarre and one hundred dollar bills and then i can tell he does
2:26in any case or ten thousand ten thousand being used by the
2:31building it once i did what he was wrong sizes like a bowling ball
2:37i was talking to both versions them
2:41busy and sometimes where cubano for writers i deserve then circles and in
2:46some blood coming out of his nose
2:51things just things as usual did write whatever one
2:55by any sort
2:56that nobody could be a problem
3:10the mondale client is a remarkable trees
3:16strong
3:17it somehow paul's life from dry desert storm
3:23ironic that a man who is small in stature
3:26struggled with
3:28personal weaknesses
3:30should find peace beneath the mondale's sheltering vials
3:36this is palm some attorney
3:38las vegas nevada
3:41a simple stone marks the final resting place of the matter most consider the
3:45greatest poker player who ever lived
3:49stu hunger
4:05wrote
4:09coverage
4:11rohr worked out though
4:15it
4:17or a group of people
4:19packers ghetto
4:24did
4:27it
4:40i don't think anybody's in this class
4:42when you look at the number of major championships at this cap one
4:46in his career
4:47it's mind-boggling
4:49back in the eighties
4:51there were two events of the temperatures of hope for
4:53demolition of civil over bill clinton
4:57california in the world
4:59from zero one
5:00the may demand both the world series and then the super bowl pope
5:03and have a stronger
5:05anyone three times each
5:08only forty five
5:09when a cleaning lady found embedded in a cheap motel not far from the record
5:14straight
5:15from aids
5:17that helium as long as he did a lot of that by now
5:20as big a over a new jersey more
5:24distorts look for
5:26content on solid
5:32but it was just wondering also insecure or or or extended anyway i a statue
5:37estimated five feet four
5:39that's going to be part of the seven wonders incinerators terms of election
5:44statue in terms of
5:46stature as a team player installer
5:49was chart
5:50which doing what
5:54congresspeople mcpherson when the world series of poker
5:58and the super bowl poker
6:00three times each
6:03bookmakers on from new york florist side
6:07if reveled in the wiseguy image
6:12so it was just
6:18just destroy it
6:25when he came to fit still eternity
6:27thousand said well you have fought all flush
6:30here's something they don't have something like this in mind
6:35one hundred percent right
6:38for a waited more there are the party
6:41tipping them off
6:48others say he was a gentle and generous soul
6:52good husband
6:54devoted bat
6:56he wanted to hammering family
6:58midtech so much to him maybe he didn't have it with his mom in this tax tax for
7:04his softness came
7:08the very last time that i saw my cat and she said that you know i love you man
7:12and very proud of you know as my dad in
7:15and i just want to know that
7:17in his sleep anne does that mean so much to me discuss sometimes
7:22you know i've always thought i could have been the baghdad to you in just two
7:25easy recently i don't know how much it means to me and that's the thing that i
7:29find instances justice this conversations and i agree that we can
7:33get it on that
7:35unemotional
7:36level
7:45something that is in our view does the fatal precision with which congress tof
7:49the greensville region of recovery
7:55he was a suicide
7:56today suggested yes
7:58most people the place for personal use
8:01throw a service
8:02so if you make a living by playing every
8:05fetuses that put more money in what is the best
8:08waging this
8:10the gambling savant
8:13vistaprint drug addict he was a case of poker and even in death he still the
8:17case of poker people
8:19constant hereby classified
8:21whether it was carter from came
8:25steel longer taxes campuses with a brutal madness of
8:30fans with his masterpiece finally complete
8:34he felt it was a simple question
8:39was two hundred
8:50some people approached me consider we got a young kid found that uh...
8:55feist pledging romanced any point in time and i would like to have suffered
8:59any so i said sure are planned
9:02they're bringing his beloved his would like to find ways ninety pampers
9:06anyways so we can meet some of the table and actively that's the guy was on the
9:10plane missiles small business at the table of the political quote great did
9:15you hear the settlement coco was great or to be big enough to get up to date
9:20can actually be had three thousand miles mahan
9:23percent deduction is too young to
9:38i came here and seventy three
9:42it was a very small-town
9:44parole board at work
9:46small group of people
9:48who basically ran the whole time
9:51everybody knew everybody
9:57system
9:59las vegas in the seventies
10:02sim city was in transition
10:05the rat pack no longer will disappear
10:07and the economic boom of the eighties have yet to begin
10:11everything was okay
10:13canceled
10:14nobody
10:15that i knew
10:17depression
10:20nobody that i a north use credit cards everybody advocate
10:25everybody etc etc
10:27perfect place for someone who's only understanding of nine five
10:32designed michael can demand side street
10:36still on the rolled into town in nineteen seventy four
10:39and was immediately at home
10:41feel intimidated
10:43babyface
10:48it was very hot
10:50the you know what you said that a table he was about initially moved in with his
10:54hands are talking to give up and walking around
10:59or if it was old enough to be able to say that i thought processes this must
11:02be some rich kid
11:04let him know that i was looking at least funeral
11:10when i first moved here
11:12he told me he had put away and million dollars in a vault
11:17and link
11:19playing blackjack
11:20and like lower
11:23eventually unger was joined by his girlfriend matalin
11:27under young son richie
11:30disney talked a lot of
11:32the worldly things
11:33so you know i want to go back to home i want to go buy the car is i have to do
11:37everything
11:39everything matalin decorated their lives with
11:41was paid for in cash
11:43he collect
11:44you write a check and and the check is good you know he didn't realize you have
11:48to go in the bank put the money in the bank
11:51for it to be good
11:54there are two playwright crapster
11:57complex
11:58it has
11:59what we call fortunate
12:02so he shows up in the nineteen eighties plays in the senate monsters welcome
12:06this is only the second
12:07overture in ever played in before
12:09he played five jim returns at that point and one three and five
12:15started
12:17pointing out that it was kind of a market that it was a really serious of
12:21the field of about a hundred people ahead of our hard work
12:25kelly called hey very vividly irish writer who changed his line after what
12:37seems to me in just watching the kitchen tables
12:40may twenty fourth just based on what you guys think
12:43you know how confident he sounded
12:50preview with them
12:53it
12:57uh... airplane thirty years
13:08twenty-six
13:10comes to hunger was already a high roller
13:14the confidence
13:15beat attitude
13:17the ability
13:19the qualities that became a legend
13:21were born on the streets of new york's lower east side
13:28his father's name was isadore hunger
13:31isadore cote d'ivoire on the lower east side of manhattan
13:39his father was a pleasure industries education to a large extent replace in
13:45the forecast
13:50false flag at
13:52legal analysts that himself
13:58flyers with a wide spread from there
14:03this is the first thing i have
14:11popular resources we would come
14:14to the bar
14:15hang out of our uh... you associate with a lot of wise guys are
14:18people who are connected to organized crime
14:21these essentially worse tourist mentors
14:28mystery by the time it was seven or eight was actually doing some of the
14:32books uh... for forest and which is really remarkable things to intervene
14:37innocence ticket book maker of the joint
14:51his other teachers to want it
14:54joe discounters and chain even though it was numbers as well
14:58some suggested he was a genius
15:01biscuit seven straight because of his intellect
15:05animes quit school and transcripts
15:07despite
15:16poor
15:18for
15:23that but blooper
15:26at work here
15:29hooker
15:42his father was
15:43and alternated
15:45cell did not really have any close relationship with his father him or her
15:50relationship with his mom
15:57preserved or died
15:59stores are expected
16:01religion why science
16:04worrying
16:05talking i was going around playing car clubs and
16:08protected by a lot of people who are a star
16:14first time in history was released
16:17and you want and with an entourage
16:21and see what he was
16:23controlling the conversation but i've never seen a kid
16:26there
16:30business rules
16:31sweetness installment debt
16:34disappeared or what
16:40flamed four days
16:42this is the final
16:45wants to hunger places first bit of the nineteen eighty world series of poker
16:50is twenty six years old beyond went over standards when
16:56when he was already in old soul membranes of jensen
17:00minden gambling virtually everything
17:04for at least sixteen years but it was originally
17:08and i never saw anybody could improve birthday today that he didn't mention
17:12and he came down to stabilize the ruble s
17:15occurred
17:23so we'll have more on children detective
17:26and i was the second place finisher here
17:29do
17:31is really obvious
17:35it was a nurse for swirled series of poker championship
17:39he won three hundred sixty five thousand dollars
17:43that was a big university longer legend in the tournaments
17:47but even as that legend was being written
17:50there was a dark chapter
17:52waiting to be trouble
18:00fists has that story straight
18:06physical differences over players including stuart
18:09and he hears something different guide instructor
18:14also if you flip spleisson eventually pursuant to the end of the best blues
18:19with religious
18:20digging for dirt financial future restricted viewpoints one of those
18:25roadways
18:26that's which has three wheels
18:31heads you win
18:32tails you lose
18:34but some people are born to live on the edge of the fifty-fifty blade
18:41jet was nineteen eighty
18:44still wondering just one seriously
18:48because you
18:50his girlfriend madeleine and her son regina join him
18:53in two years later they were husband and wife
18:56which she was the main ingredient that kept us act together and he had toward
19:01they'd save baseball they played basketball
19:04and uh...
19:05my son was so appreciative tech
19:07anything he did and he would introduced everybody this is my day this is my debt
19:20but there was another side to the success stories
19:25cocaine
19:30he turned to cocaine
19:32in order to fuel
19:33his uh... ability to stay awake to stay focused
19:38you know there are again i don't know who
19:41assessor lower toppled from players because it gets here for a couple days
19:46led by several days session marathon sessions as well
19:50described
19:52please stay in contact twenty four hours he had no clue when somebody said to
19:57myself keep you up
20:00you know i at first it was fun to have been the internet
20:03said it wasn't right
20:14trade under itself wasn't serious decline
20:17throughout the seventies
20:19studio city first tried to obtain because of that
20:24whose mother died in nineteen seventy nine
20:31peripheral
20:36plateaued
20:37but my heart
20:40well okay okay
20:42that activity
20:45laptop
20:47but
20:49crowded at that point highlight
21:00you know control
21:01yourself because you get so involved in drug safety couldn't handle that
21:05person's villainy winwood briefings they shouldn't do
21:11he was a responded
21:12would let you know the dealers or um... and i just would say things that uh...
21:16the players you know
21:18st
21:20dignity column names
21:23conditions in rather than inflation threatened with a lot of ways and means
21:27committee meeting
21:29ironies neural karolina
21:32is up part was the target with one of the popcorn
21:36and he starts to their homes and cars
21:38bent over the ocean i'm out there about
21:42he was so add a word cursing at the dealers almost hitting enter
21:46teaching standing next to me you know st louis mo so what happened drizzle
21:50bridges quit this would happen to somebody who's on occasions
21:54telling me the drug use a little bit smaller numbers disarm often
22:00confrontational demeanor and the people who my
22:05using
22:06longer approved of his nineteen eighty championship was no flu readout on the
22:10end of the tail of the young man in the flu
22:12deccan wilshire
22:14he's a story right now is the defending champions only twenty seven years old
22:19direct or pricing
22:20amarillo slam
22:21bobby stalwart great-great poker players almost by carnes of the game even at
22:26that time
22:27and first to order to win it once a lot of people speculated that young working
22:31and the please
22:36the
22:43the
22:49has again one day
22:51world championship of faltered
22:53thorough
22:55weighted uh... read-out carried out by now
23:03that
23:12the three hundred seventy five thousand dollars paid in march tom cruise the
23:16greatest focus later in the world
23:22it also marks the beginning of his long downward spiral
23:29effort we really weren't seconds groceries
23:33everyone's wasn't
23:37insisting that house of organic
23:40and investment banker or whatever
23:44i'm going out there
23:47and they don't have a money
23:49going forward
23:52and his wife
23:54calls for mostly very
24:03cysts
24:06just
24:08just
24:09practice
24:15he had some deadbeats like everybody in congress
24:18he probably can do and that is the most people are the receipt
24:23that i had written
24:25thousand-odd horse race
24:27and of course is the deadline
24:29work clear by
24:30probably forty or fifty yards to the finish line indeed one-horse
24:35produce great traveling was a hundred and ten
24:38pastoralize within twenty minutes after that deadbeats erie appeared for the
24:43next race he simply said
24:46you see what happened to me
24:47has suggested
24:48he said that hamas commanders and they say
24:54denied thirty one years behind the counter had never seen anything did he
24:57called and i was doing it
25:03has cleared the streets
25:06first the movement of money
25:09for the next best for the next
25:12job growth stocks
25:14it's a constant need to put something at risk in this case money
25:19the more the better
25:21steam longer loved action
25:24immunity faded evidence sexual appetite
25:27fractionation action frequently so
25:33so it wasn't losing
25:34exports imports player extn eighty thousand dollars innocent
25:39sixty seven one
25:40bevy of college football games going on
25:43he would never stopped dating into heat exercisable eighty thousand dollars
25:47cuban everything all the time
25:51one-night came over my house seized food business
25:55responsibility by politically class was great seeing it as a band played music
25:59system
26:00way back down here
26:02restore plate any complaint all i was just not the couple's love daily lives
26:07about seventy eighty thousand proof of the week with
26:10fascist there was just doing or is he would use his money away so often
26:15called me up on this and i said two categories like this one hundred forty
26:19thousand athletes like asap rosa parks and idealism
26:24forbes says
26:25what's hard for you know this is the greatest
26:32history was
26:33it never really understood the object of the game in terms of being a
26:36professional gambler
26:38knowing the object of course history creature bankroll improve your lifestyle
26:43and provide for your family
26:46in nineteen eighty-two and family became a bigger focus and hunger silajdzic
26:52madeline were married in september
26:55two months later
26:56their daughter stephanie was born
26:58with stephanie was born he was just he was just blown away i mean he said that
27:02she was everything had and uh...
27:05my son which she idolize everything about stealing the idolized what he he
27:11partial tuition would love to get a gambler they just wanted me
27:20those family bombs were tested by the numbers and was needed
27:24perfection
27:30anytime he was around in the restructuring everyone knew he was the
27:33ultimate at times it was a thousand dollar a day cocaine habit i remember
27:36one time at the dunes hotel in las vegas
27:39he was one of them to get some
27:41so i booked the room
27:42we walk in the desk at a glass table top on it
27:46and on the table top always across the table top until about some of your
27:50medical refineries and
27:52but now i realize it was coming
27:56as an entitlement
27:58pd
28:03storage so what should we go to the lord
28:06detective even the membranes
28:08divisional
28:11there's no wishes collapsed
28:16reward pair of glasses too
28:19almost trick people into thinking his nose differently
28:27he said he was going to get his nose fixed but unfortunately what he did was
28:32he did not
28:34take a proper killing time
28:37and he catches knows collapse from indulging again in the country
28:46turmoil in tragedy marks the rest of the decade
28:49in nineteen eighty six
28:51madeline filed for divorce
28:55in nineteen eighty nine
28:58he lost his son
29:02what happened was richie income home that evening
29:07entitled to the helmet m
29:10became ill
29:13bandits he decided
29:15this is in
29:18indian parking lot
29:20he took his life
29:24he hopes up
29:32from
29:36for
29:37equal time
29:40aaa
29:41sorry
29:43era
29:44or anything else anything
29:47uh... without power
29:55father recently himself
29:58for my brother's death all
30:01he just said and i think she would have just known that that's what he was you
30:04know
30:05anti-depressant medicines hopes that he was
30:08he would have handled things in a different way
30:12community was charged
30:13at the same effort
30:16that really a good
30:18because he loved that point
30:23activity passed away and exciting
30:26the subject
30:27even more
30:30in care
30:31how it looked
30:33he didn't care how he eighty you describe a camera crews
30:48the government of the world
30:51people reside is do you know that was brilliant
30:57mentioned problems at home one of the country and in return for as long as
31:01we're going to win
31:03news continues to love you
31:06is a really good friend about everybody had very dark down there
31:10rewind
31:14review referee
31:25stu hungers generosity
31:27is as much a part of las vegas lore
31:30vs current playing ability
31:32underwater mistreatment at and perspective and asked which do it for
31:37them
31:37handbooks and continuing that
31:40streeter out all day august
31:42spineta
31:43behind it
31:44and get token ticking away a sister who was that
31:48he said i don't know stiff but not limited to two hundred
31:52and that's kind of person he was civilians of dollars
31:55passed through his talented hands
31:58two world series of poker championships
32:01when it was trophy case
32:05the only thing that matched his dramatic rise
32:18don't they
32:22nineteen ninety s two hundred was divorced
32:26horribly addicted to cocaine
32:29apartheid
32:30by his son's suicide
32:32consensus
32:34cooper-breaux does much negative baggage to the table proceeded chips he showed
32:39up at that new year's world series of poker at stake team for the ten thousand
32:44dollar buying and in the first day he was runaway with tumhare big-league hit
32:49save me some thousand dollar of chips
32:52dramatic comebacks in today
32:56and i get a phone call from ericdraven with tournament director
33:00i guess everyone had to see them as i heard from and then i knew were true
33:04when you stand and
33:05their security to go up there gin
33:11ice storm
33:12laying on the bed
33:13kinda like inist side of the seizure like his whole body tensing up btwn
33:20they'd calls to the end of the golan million on a stretcher in putting an
33:23amateur
33:24neutrogena sunrise hospital
33:27needed rosanna foreign you have some kind of
33:30adverse reaction to them
33:35never showed up second day
33:36didn't finish determined
33:39you know you're talking about and i got out of all the world
33:42going to solve the lower strongly for
33:45for their services
33:51stay longer through friends so you always help the dollar amount
33:56was now
33:57one of the don about himself
34:06democrat one day with me
34:08because he said my kids have grown to millions of dollars and i don't have any
34:11money to buy my daughter's foreclose
34:16but
34:19cupid
34:29k
34:39there
34:46the
34:50when he couldn't live support for the first order when school starts
34:54ever again
35:02given what he had become
35:04what happened in nineteen ninety seven
35:07drizzle more amazing
35:12gain amended broke
35:15anyone in the background not journeyman assisted please leave me alone
35:20the issue really was clean as the world's limited way baba
35:25so finally and i just wanna passes
35:28jagdish ten thousand
35:30we'll put it in the german
35:32nearby did you know that you don't want em a monkey
35:40knowing him in that first day
35:42blacks grafted resources necessary
35:46messages of this time will actually been arrested probably got a breakthrough
35:49today
35:50study hard
35:51and made it through the day sale right now the proud
35:56this is an heads up on her for heart dash restriction on her jobs
36:03underwater malone on his journey to a championship table
36:06in his pocket
36:08sweetheart
36:09was a picture of his daughter
36:14he says that she was his inspiration
36:17right before
36:18the final day started shut down
36:20and he told me uh...
36:22exactly where they have been saying for the last two years but he was
36:26discern he was going to turn things around here when it's warmer things were
36:30going to be different showed me pictures that's the reason is that as free
36:34i wanna show this picture when i went to barnard being assumed that there was
36:37anything
36:38that could happen
36:39pretend not to win it
36:45vivien leigh in lebanon
36:48out and about that
36:50ikkada john paul's
36:56yes and
37:00here
37:02the
37:10here the greatest backs of any human being
37:13someone literally living
37:15enormous state analysts in the next one is a millionaire and districts are more
37:19proper champion here although your eyes here forty three years old if they
37:22didn't think differently now
37:25well-prepared hello about that but
37:32nobody had ever input it what what
37:41streamline your was black
37:44and for how long
37:57when we were wondering uh... uh... uh... though
38:02load
38:06but lemme manipulate
38:09we another hit like a beautiful yahoo
38:15thoughtful of you
38:16yeah i i i i i
38:26do wonders life was guided by a hollywood screenwriters pam
38:31directed at the end perhaps you would probably is redemption of the ninety
38:37seven world series of poker into a lifestyle visiting the only three-time
38:41champion of that event
38:51meet so much that this really was a terrorist pretty soon to be he now
38:57i unclean
38:59all right
39:05bugsy longer didn't live in hollywood
39:08they lived in las vegas
39:12when he was in and around
39:15there was a professional cameraman
39:19the winner share of the ninety seven world series of poker was a million
39:23dollars
39:24four months after he wanted
39:26hunger was broken
39:27mug with much of the rest of the money interest longer something like that he
39:31earned military much the same places into sportsbooks
39:35that table stand in the congress of the drug dealers
39:43this is actually said remember this
39:45he said anybody going to come in
39:47misunderstanding that words and so i know how important it was first elected
39:51comeback in nineteen ninety eight
39:53to defend his title
39:54you know that he won the previous years
39:56actually put the money up the employees in nineteen ninety-eight day of the two
40:00of them
40:02he was in such bad shape you told me but i mean who introduced richard daley's is
40:08and retired boy
40:12there's a man that could come and play dot costume update
40:19he was on a warm upstairs institute clinton
40:23that he just wanted you perform
40:26and that's what i need to know who was disintegration with
40:35over the course of the next few months partner was arrested for possession of
40:39crack cocaine
40:40eg
40:43last time i saw my dad iron
40:46title ten
40:48i said if i don't have anything to do it in the morning
40:50estonians and i can select some unless the u_n_ jerry have
40:56he suspected to have all
41:01expect players
41:03they're all want to send a rehab center
41:05but nice ones in the conference
41:08even wanna do it
41:11can help people in the water from church
41:13cafe right up through the years
41:15and student will be here
41:26on november twenty second
41:28nineteen ninety-eight
41:30in this hotel
41:32the part of a guest known for drug use and prostitution
41:37to do longer
41:38was filed death
41:44the great artists writers
41:45location of death is the fact that all over las vegas for many years he had
41:49caught suites he looked at caesar's palace for a time
41:54get credit lines of a million dollars at the dunes he walked into most discussing
41:58the stress like this royalty
42:01to be there in that environment of his life
42:04it is really great irony and the great tragedy
42:11i got a phone call from time to any
42:14cason and leonard community center
42:17and zan
42:20can any company
42:22at this time
42:24chemical peterson
42:26dickhead
42:35there was a terrible
42:36but wasn't surprised
42:43the coroner's report indicated traces of cocaine
42:46methadone
42:47and the prescription painkiller
42:49the number system
42:51but under cause of death the reasons cited was a heart condition brought
42:55about by years of abuse
42:57i regret ever doing that flossing
43:00bearishness infection he died
43:03thinking that hispanic didn't care about him and didn't have anything to do is
43:07have
43:10i have one of the talent now i do still have your i still lives in access while
43:14i'm doing this
43:16because i want to some action
43:33in the gamut formerly
43:35for more than the general my world
43:38intelligent never see again
43:40settlers
43:42in a game of life
43:43stronger was over
43:44there's no question about it
43:47disclosures self-portrait there's a complicated campus
43:52they did with equally balanced strokes of
43:54genius payments self-abuse
44:04lenders they're going out of the world that he didn't get control of his life
44:09will never know
44:11exactly the students and in other words one hundred began a bit
44:18mixed expansion of government on the popularity
44:21many people making all this money and knows what this gentleman warranted in
44:26this environment
44:28switch
44:30he withdrew that here
44:32hemisphere this if you would have been
44:35while you've been amazing
44:39there's no doubt and he would have been far away the biggest superstar baltimore
44:44that the war has ever seen
44:57on november twenty sixth nineteen ninety eight
45:00stronger was laid to rest
45:04friends from fellow democrats
45:07date for the ceremony
45:08panel
45:32was wandering around all for most people would call a real job
45:37observed
45:39it's been estimated he turned nearly thirty million dollars
45:42his gambling career
45:46mister
45:48all he had left was the eight hundred dollars investigators found in his
45:51pocket
45:53he was forty five years old
46:01fit