Stu Ungar is regarded by most to the finest No Limit Texas hold em Poker gambler ever.
The 3 time World Poker Champion was born in New York in ‘53 and started wagering poker before becomming a teenager.
The young bettor started out playing gin and at the age of 10 had won his first gin rummy tournament, while on vacation with his parents. By the time he turned 14 the small poker genius had become a professional and dropped out of school.
In 1954 Stu entered the record books by succeeding $10,000 in a gin rummy tournament without sacrificing a single hand, a record which still appears in New York today.
The fast talking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, to athletic greats like Joe Namath and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a actual ability for betting poker but regardless of his achievements in Hold’em poker, he preferred playing gin.
Stu once said that there may a few day be a better No Limit Texas hold’em gambler than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a better gin gambler.
In 1980 Stu was put on the global map as one of the best Texas hold em Poker gamblers in the entire world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the first time. Astonishingly it was the 1st time he had entered the tournament.
The right after year he put aside any thoughts that it had been luck, by successfully protecting his title. And in 1997 Stu set the record by winning his third World poker championship.
Except this poker master also struggled with substance abuse and a year after succeeding his third 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 Ungar had began with absolutely nothing except his skill and natural talent for the game which made this poker good a millionaire many times over.
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