Stu is regarded by most to the finest NL Hold’em Poker player ever.
The 3 time World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and started betting poker before becomming a teenager.
The young bettor started out wagering gin and at the age of ten had won his first gin rummy tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the age of fourteen the little poker genius had become a pro and dropped out of school.
In ‘54 Stu Ungar entered the record books by succeeding $10,000 in a gin tournament without dropping a single hand, a record which still appears in New York these days.
The fast talking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to sporting greats such as Joe Namath and Tiger Woods. Stu Ungar had a real talent for playing poker except despite his achievements in Holdem poker, he favored betting gin.
Stu once said that there may a number of day be a improved No Limit Texas hold’em gambler than him but he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a improved gin player.
In 1980 Stu Ungar was put on the global map as one of the best Texas hold’em Poker gamblers in the globe when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the very first time. Extraordinarily it was the 1st time he had played in the tournament.
The right after year he put aside any suggestions that it had been a fluke, by effectively defending his crown. And in 1997 Stu set the record by succeeding his 3rd World poker championship.
But this poker master also struggled with substance abuse and a year after winning his third title Stu Ungar died in his hotel room. According to medical doctors, he had died from a heart attack which was triggered by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had started with practically nothing except his ability and natural talent for the casino game which made this poker great a millionaire a lot of times over.