Texas Hold’em Poker Legends
Stu Ungar is considered by most to the very best No Limit Hold’em Poker gambler ever.
The three time World Poker Champ was born in New York in 1953 and began playing poker prior to becomming a teenager.
The young gambler began playing gin and at the age of ten 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 turned professional and stopped going to school.
In ‘54 Stu Ungar entered the record books by succeeding 10,000 dollars in a gin tournament without losing 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 Kobe Bryant. Stu had a true ability for playing poker except in spite of his achievements in Hold’em poker, he favored wagering gin.
Stu once said that there may a few day be a greater NL Texas hold em player than him but 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 greatest Texas hold’em Poker players in the entire world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the 1st time. Astonishingly it was the 1st time he had entered the tournament.
The following year he dismissed any thoughts that it had been a fluke, by effectively protecting his crown. And in 1997 Stu set the record by succeeding his 3rd World poker championship.
Except this poker master also fought with substance abuse and a year after winning his 3rd title Stu past away in his hotel room. According to medical professionals, he had passed away from a heart attack which was triggered by his lifestyle.
Stu had started with nothing but his skill and natural talent for the game which made this poker great a millionaire a lot of times over.
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