Stu is thought to be by many to the finest No Limit Texas hold’em Poker player ever.
The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in ‘53 and started playing poker prior to reaching his teens.
The young bettor began playing gin and at the age of 10 had won his 1st gin rummy tournament, while on holiday with his mother and father. By the age of fourteen the little poker maestro had turned pro and stopped going to school.
In 1954 Stu Ungar entered the history books by winning 10 grand in a gin rummy tournament without dropping a single hand, a record which still stands in New York today.
The quick talking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to sporting greats such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a actual skill for wagering poker except regardless of his successes in Hold’em poker, he preferred betting gin.
Stu once said that there might a few day be a much better No Limit Hold em player than him except he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a much better gin gambler.
In ‘80 Stu Ungar was put on the global map as one of the very best Texas hold em Poker players in the planet when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the 1st time. Astonishingly it was the 1st time he had entered the tournament.
The following year he put aside any thoughts that it had been a fluke, by successfully defending his crown. And in 1997 Stu set the record by succeeding his third World poker championship.
But this poker master also fought with drug abuse and a year after succeeding his 3rd title Stu Ungar died in his hotel room. According to doctors, he had died from a heart attack which was triggered by his lifestyle.
Stu had started out with nothing except his ability and expertise for the casino game which made this poker excellent a millionaire numerous times over.
