Stu is regarded 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 wagering poker prior to becomming a teenager.
The young gambler started out wagering gin and at the age of ten had won his primary gin tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the age of 14 the little poker genius had turned pro and stopped going to school.
In 1954 Stu entered the history books by succeeding $10,000 in a gin tournament without sacrificing a single hand, a record which still remains in New York these days.
The quick speaking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to athletic superstars such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Stu had a actual ability for playing poker except regardless of his successes in Holdem poker, he preferred wagering gin.
Stu once said that there may some day be a better No Limit Hold’em gambler than him but he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a improved gin gambler.
In ‘80 Stu was put on the world map as one of the ideal Holdem Poker players in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the very first time. Astonishingly it was the 1st time he had entered the tournament.
The subsequent year he put aside any suggestions that it had been a fluke, by successfully defending his title. And in 1997 Stu set the record by succeeding his 3rd World poker championship.
Except this poker master also fought with drug abuse and a year following succeeding his third title Stu Ungar died in his hotel room. According to medical professionals, he had died from cardiac arrest which was triggered by his lifestyle.
Stu had began with nothing except his ability and expertise for the casino game which made this poker excellent a millionaire a lot of times over.