Stu Ungar is thought to be by many to the very best NL 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 becomming a teenager.
The young gambler started out wagering gin and at the age of 10 had won his initial gin tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the age of 14 the little poker genius had become a professional and dropped out of school.
In ‘54 Stu Ungar entered the history books by succeeding $10,000 in a gin tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still stands in New York these days.
The fast speaking superstar has been likened, in poker terms, to athletic greats such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Stu had a actual talent for wagering poker except in spite of his achievements in Holdem poker, he favored playing gin.
Stu once said that there may a few day be a much better NL Holdem player than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a greater gin gambler.
In ‘80 Stu was put on the world map as one of the very best Hold’em Poker gamblers in the globe when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the very first time. Amazingly it was the very first time he had entered the tournament.
The right after year he dismissed any thoughts that it had been a fluke, by effectively protecting his crown. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by winning his 3rd World poker championship.
Except this poker legend also fought with drug abuse and a year right after winning his 3rd title Stu died in his hotel room. According to physicians, he had passed away from a cardiac event which was caused by his lifestyle.
Stu had started with practically nothing except his ability and expertise for the casino game which made this poker great a millionaire quite a few times over.
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