Stu Ungar is considered by most to the very best NL Hold’em Poker player ever.
The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in ‘53 and started betting poker before reaching his teens.
The young gambler started out wagering gin and at the age of 10 had won his first gin rummy tournament, while on vacation with his parents. By the age of fourteen the small poker maestro had become a pro and dropped out of school.
In ‘54 Stu Ungar entered the history books by winning 10,000 dollars in a gin tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still appears in New York these days.
The quick talking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to sporting superstars such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Stu Ungar had a actual skill for betting poker except regardless of his achievements in Texas hold em poker, he preferred wagering gin.
Stu once said that there might several day be a improved NL Texas hold em gambler than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a much better gin player.
In ‘80 Stu Ungar was put on the world map as one of the best Hold’em Poker players in the planet when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the first time. Extraordinarily it was the very first time he had entered the tournament.
The following year he dismissed any suggestions that it had been a fluke, by successfully defending his crown. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by succeeding his 3rd World poker championship.
But this poker master also battled with drug abuse and a year after winning his 3rd title Stu Ungar past away in his hotel room. According to doctors, he had passed away from a cardiac event which was triggered by his lifestyle.
Stu had started out with practically nothing but his skill and talent for the game which made this poker great a millionaire a lot of times over.
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