Stu is regarded by many to the very best No Limit Texas hold’em Poker gambler ever.
The three time World Poker Champ was born in New York in 1953 and started wagering poker prior to reaching his teens.
The young gambler started out betting gin and at the age of 10 had won his initial gin tournament, while on vacation with his mother and father. By the time he turned fourteen the small poker genius had turned pro and dropped out of school.
In ‘54 Stu entered the history books by succeeding 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 athletic greats like Joe Namath and Tiger Woods. Stu had a genuine ability for wagering poker except regardless of his achievements in Holdem poker, he favored playing gin.
Stu once said that there might several day be a greater No Limit Hold’em gambler than him but he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a better gin player.
In 1980 Stu was put on the world map as one of the ideal Texas hold’em Poker gamblers in the planet when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the very first time. Extraordinarily it was the first time he had entered the tournament.
The subsequent year he put aside any thoughts that it had been a fluke, by successfully protecting his title. And in 1997 Stu set the record by succeeding his third World poker championship.
But this poker legend also struggled with drug abuse and a year after succeeding his third title Stu Ungar died in his hotel room. According to medical professionals, he had died from cardiac arrest which was caused by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had started out with practically nothing but his skill and expertise for the game which made this poker wonderful a millionaire a lot of times over.
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