Holdem Poker Masters
Stu Ungar is considered by most to the very best NL Holdem Poker gambler ever.
The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in ‘53 and began betting poker prior to becomming a teenager.
The young gambler started out playing gin and at the age of 10 had won his initial gin rummy tournament, while on vacation with his parents. By the age of 14 the small poker maestro had become a professional and dropped out of school.
In 1954 Stu entered the record books by winning 10,000 dollars in a gin tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still stands in New York these days.
The quick talking superstar has been compared, in poker terms, to sporting greats like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a actual skill for betting poker except in spite of his successes in Texas hold’em poker, he favored wagering gin.
Stu once said that there may a number of day be a improved NL Hold em player than him except he could not see how anyone could ever be a better gin player.
In 1980 Stu was put on the world map as one of the ideal Texas hold’em Poker players in the entire world when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the first time. Extraordinarily it was the very first time he had played in the tournament.
The following year he put aside any suggestions that it had been luck, by successfully protecting his crown. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by succeeding his third World poker championship.
Except this poker master also fought with substance abuse and a year right after succeeding his third title Stu Ungar died in his hotel room. According to medical doctors, he had died from a heart attack which was brought on by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had started with absolutely nothing except his ability and talent for the game which made this poker good a millionaire a lot of times over.
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