Stu is regarded by most to the very best No Limit Texas hold’em Poker gambler ever.
The 3 time World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and started playing poker before becomming a teenager.
The young gambler started out playing gin and at the age of ten had won his 1st gin rummy tournament, while on vacation with his mother and father. By the age of 14 the little poker genius had become a pro and stopped going to school.
In ‘54 Stu entered the record books by succeeding 10,000 dollars in a gin rummy tournament without dropping a single hand, a record which still remains in New York today.
The quick talking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, to athletic superstars such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Stu had a actual talent for wagering poker except despite his successes in Texas hold em poker, he favored wagering gin.
Stu once said that there may a few day be a far better No Limit Holdem player than him but he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a greater gin player.
In ‘80 Stu Ungar was put on the global map as one of the finest Texas holdem Poker gamblers in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the first time. Extraordinarily it was the very first time he had played in the tournament.
The following year he put aside any suggestions that it had been a fluke, by effectively protecting his title. And in 1997 Stu set the record by winning his third World poker championship.
Except this poker master also fought with drug abuse and a year after winning his 3rd title Stu died in his hotel room. According to medical professionals, he had died from cardiac arrest which was brought on by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had began with absolutely nothing but his skill and expertise for the casino game which made this poker great a millionaire many times over.