Stu Ungar is considered by most to the finest No Limit Hold’em Poker player ever.
The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in ‘53 and started wagering poker before reaching his teens.
The young bettor began playing 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 14 the small poker genius had become a professional and stopped going to school.
In ‘54 Stu Ungar entered the history books by succeeding 10,000 dollars in a gin rummy tournament without dropping a single hand, a record which still appears in New York today.
The quick talking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, to athletic greats like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a actual ability for wagering poker but despite his successes in Texas hold em poker, he favored playing gin.
Stu once said that there might a number of day be a improved No Limit Hold’em gambler than him but he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a greater gin player.
In ‘80 Stu was put on the world map as one of the greatest Texas hold’em Poker gamblers in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the very first time. Astonishingly it was the very first time he had entered the tournament.
The right after year he put aside any suggestions that it had been luck, by successfully protecting his crown. And in 1997 Stu set the record by succeeding his 3rd World poker championship.
But this poker master also battled with substance abuse and a year following succeeding his third title Stu past away in his hotel room. According to medical doctors, he had died from a cardiac event which was triggered by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had started out with nothing but his skill and expertise for the game which made this poker great a millionaire quite a few times over.