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Texas Holdem Poker Legends
Stu is considered by many to the very best NL Texas holdem Poker player ever.
The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in ‘53 and started wagering poker prior to becomming a teenager.
The young bettor began betting gin and at the age of ten had won his primary gin tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the age of fourteen the small poker maestro had become a professional and stopped going to school.
In 1954 Stu entered the record books by succeeding $10,000 in a gin tournament without sacrificing a single hand, a record which still stands in New York today.
The fast talking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to athletic superstars such as Joe Namath and Kobe Bryant. Stu Ungar had a genuine talent for playing poker except in spite of his successes in Texas hold em poker, he preferred playing gin.
Stu once said that there might a few day be a much better No Limit Hold em player than him except he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a far better gin player.
In ‘80 Stu was put on the global map as one of the best Texas hold’em Poker gamblers in the planet when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the very first time. Astonishingly it was the first time he had entered the tournament.
The subsequent year he put aside any suggestions that it had been a fluke, by successfully protecting his crown. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by winning his 3rd World poker championship.
But this poker master also battled with substance abuse and a year right after succeeding his 3rd title Stu Ungar past away in his hotel room. According to doctors, he had died from cardiac arrest which was brought on by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had started out with absolutely nothing but his skill and natural talent for the game which made this poker good a millionaire several times over.
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