Stu is considered by many to the finest NL Texas hold’em Poker player ever.
The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in ‘53 and started playing poker before becomming a teenager.
The young gambler began betting gin and at the age of ten had won his initial gin tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the age of fourteen the small poker genius had become a professional and dropped out of school.
In 1954 Stu Ungar entered the history books by winning 10,000 dollars in a gin rummy tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still remains in New York today.
The fast talking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, to athletic greats like Joe Namath and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a actual ability for wagering poker except despite his achievements in Texas hold’em poker, he preferred wagering gin.
Stu once said that there might a few day be a greater NL Texas holdem gambler than him except he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a greater gin gambler.
In 1980 Stu was put on the world map as one of the ideal Hold’em Poker gamblers in the entire world when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the 1st time. Amazingly it was the 1st time he had entered the tournament.
The right after year he dismissed any suggestions that it had been luck, by effectively defending his title. And in 1997 Stu set the record by succeeding his third World poker championship.
Except this poker master also fought with drug abuse and a year after succeeding his 3rd title Stu past away in his hotel room. According to physicians, he had passed away from cardiac arrest which was brought on by his lifestyle.
Stu had started with nothing except his skill and natural talent for the game which made this poker wonderful a millionaire many times over.