Texas Holdem Poker Masters
Stu is thought to be by most to the very best NL Texas hold em Poker player ever.
The 3 time World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and started wagering poker before becomming a teenager.
The young gambler started out betting gin and at the age of 10 had won his very first gin tournament, while on vacation with his mother and father. By the age of fourteen the little poker maestro had turned pro and dropped out of school.
In ‘54 Stu Ungar entered the record books by winning $10,000 in a gin tournament without dropping a single hand, a record which still remains in New York these days.
The fast speaking superstar has been likened, in poker terms, to sporting superstars like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a true skill for wagering poker but despite his successes in Hold em poker, he favored wagering gin.
Stu once said that there may a number of day be a better No Limit Hold em player than him except he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a improved gin gambler.
In 1980 Stu was put on the global map as one of the greatest Texas hold em Poker players in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the very first time. Extraordinarily it was the very first time he had played in the tournament.
The right after year he dismissed any thoughts that it had been luck, by successfully defending his crown. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by succeeding his 3rd World poker championship.
Except this poker legend also battled with drug abuse and a year after succeeding his 3rd title Stu past away in his hotel room. According to doctors, he had died from cardiac arrest which was brought on by his lifestyle.
Stu had began with nothing except his skill and natural talent for the game which made this poker wonderful a millionaire a lot of times over.
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