Stu Ungar is considered by most to the very best No Limit Hold’em Poker gambler ever.
The three time World Poker Champ was born in New York in ‘53 and began playing poker prior to becomming a teenager.
The young bettor began betting gin and at the age of ten had won his 1st gin rummy tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the time he turned 14 the small poker genius had turned professional and dropped out of school.
In 1954 Stu entered the record books by succeeding 10,000 dollars in a gin rummy tournament without dropping a single hand, a record which still appears in New York these days.
The quick speaking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, to sporting greats such as Joe Namath and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a actual skill for playing poker except despite his successes in Texas holdem poker, he preferred betting gin.
Stu once said that there might several day be a far better No Limit Texas hold em gambler than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a much better gin gambler.
In 1980 Stu Ungar was put on the world map as one of the greatest Texas hold em Poker players in the entire world when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the 1st time. Extraordinarily it was the very first time he had played in the tournament.
The following year he dismissed any thoughts that it had been luck, by successfully protecting his crown. And in 1997 Stu set the record by winning his third World poker championship.
Except this poker master also battled with drug abuse and a year following succeeding his 3rd title Stu died in his hotel room. According to medical professionals, he had died from cardiac arrest which was brought on by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had started out with practically nothing but his skill and talent for the casino game which made this poker great a millionaire many times over.
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