Hold em Poker Masters
Stu Ungar is considered by most to the very best NL Hold em Poker player ever.
The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in ‘53 and started playing poker before reaching his teens.
The young gambler began playing gin and at the age of 10 had won his first gin rummy tournament, while on vacation with his mother and father. By the time he turned fourteen the little poker maestro had become a professional and stopped going to school.
In ‘54 Stu Ungar entered the record books by succeeding 10,000 dollars in a gin rummy tournament without sacrificing a single hand, a record which still remains in New York these days.
The fast speaking superstar has been likened, in poker terms, to athletic greats such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a actual talent for playing poker but despite his achievements in Holdem poker, he preferred betting gin.
Stu once said that there may a few day be a much better No Limit Hold’em gambler than him but he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a much better gin gambler.
In 1980 Stu was put on the global map as one of the ideal Hold em Poker players in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the first time. Amazingly it was the 1st time he had entered the tournament.
The following year he put aside any thoughts that it had been luck, by effectively defending his title. And in 1997 Stu set the record by winning his 3rd World poker championship.
Except this poker legend also struggled with drug abuse and a year right after succeeding his 3rd title Stu past away in his hotel room. According to physicians, he had died from cardiac arrest which was caused by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had started out with nothing except his ability and natural talent for the game which made this poker fantastic a millionaire several times over.
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