Texas Hold’em Poker Legends
Tuesday, 28. August 2012
Stu is regarded by many to the very best NL Texas holdem Poker player ever.
The 3 time World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and started playing poker before reaching his teens.
The young bettor started out playing gin and at the age of ten had won his 1st gin tournament, while on vacation with his parents. By the time he turned fourteen the small poker maestro had become a professional and stopped going to school.
In ‘54 Stu entered the record books by succeeding $10,000 in a gin rummy tournament without dropping a single hand, a record which still stands in New York today.
The quick talking superstar has been compared, in poker terms, to sporting greats such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Stu Ungar had a real ability for betting poker but regardless of his achievements in Texas holdem poker, he favored betting gin.
Stu once said that there might several day be a better NL Texas hold’em player than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a much better gin gambler.
In 1980 Stu Ungar was put on the world map as one of the best Holdem Poker players in the globe when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the very first time. Extraordinarily it was the first time he had entered the tournament.
The following year he put aside any suggestions that it had been a fluke, by effectively protecting his crown. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by winning his 3rd World poker championship.
But this poker master also battled with drug abuse and a year right after winning his 3rd title Stu died in his hotel room. According to medical professionals, he had died from a cardiac event which was caused by his lifestyle.
Stu had started with absolutely nothing except his ability and expertise for the game which made this poker good a millionaire many times over.
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