Stu is thought to be by most to the very best No Limit Holdem Poker player ever.
The three time World Poker Champ was born in New York in 1953 and began wagering poker before reaching his teens.
The young gambler began playing gin and at the age of ten had won his first gin tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the time he turned fourteen the small poker maestro had become a professional and dropped out of school.
In ‘54 Stu Ungar entered the record books by winning $10,000 in a gin tournament without dropping a single hand, a record which still stands in New York today.
The fast talking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to athletic superstars such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Stu Ungar had a real talent for betting poker except regardless of his successes in Texas holdem poker, he preferred playing gin.
Stu once said that there might some day be a better No Limit Hold em gambler than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a greater gin gambler.
In 1980 Stu Ungar was put on the world map as one of the ideal Holdem Poker players in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the 1st time. Amazingly it was the first time he had entered the tournament.
The following year he put aside any thoughts that it had been a fluke, by effectively protecting his title. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by winning his 3rd World poker championship.
But this poker master also struggled with substance abuse and a year right after winning his 3rd title Stu Ungar died in his hotel room. According to medical doctors, he had died from cardiac arrest which was brought on by his lifestyle.
Stu had began with practically nothing but his skill and natural talent for the game which made this poker excellent a millionaire quite a few times over.
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