Stu Ungar is considered by most to the greatest No Limit Hold’em Poker player ever.
The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and started betting 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 vacation with his mother and father. By the age of 14 the small poker genius had turned professional and stopped going to school.
In ‘54 Stu entered the history books by winning 10,000 dollars in a gin tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still stands in New York these days.
The quick speaking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, to athletic greats like Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Stu had a actual skill for wagering poker except regardless of his successes in Hold em poker, he favored wagering gin.
Stu once said that there might a few day be a far better No Limit Hold’em player than him except he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a improved gin player.
In 1980 Stu was put on the world map as one of the very best Holdem Poker gamblers in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the very first time. Astonishingly it was the 1st time he had played in the tournament.
The following year he put aside any suggestions that it had been luck, by successfully defending his crown. And in 1997 Stu set the record by winning his third World poker championship.
But this poker master also battled with drug abuse and a year after winning his 3rd title Stu past away in his hotel room. According to physicians, he had passed away from cardiac arrest which was caused by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had began with nothing but his skill and natural talent for the casino game which made this poker fantastic a millionaire several times over.
