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Texas Hold em Poker Masters
Stu Ungar is thought to be by many to the greatest NL Hold em Poker player ever.
The 3 time World Poker Champion was born in New York in ‘53 and started betting poker before reaching his teens.
The young gambler began betting 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 turned professional and stopped going to school.
In ‘54 Stu entered the record books by winning 10,000 dollars in a gin tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still remains in New York these days.
The quick talking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to athletic superstars like Joe Namath and Tiger Woods. Stu Ungar had a real skill for playing poker but despite his achievements in Hold’em poker, he preferred playing gin.
Stu once said that there might several day be a greater No Limit Texas hold em player than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a far better gin gambler.
In 1980 Stu was put on the world map as one of the ideal Hold em Poker gamblers in the entire world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the 1st time. Astonishingly it was the 1st time he had entered the tournament.
The subsequent year he put aside any thoughts that it had been luck, by successfully protecting his title. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by succeeding his third World poker championship.
Except this poker master also struggled with drug abuse and a year right after succeeding his third title Stu Ungar died in his hotel room. According to physicians, he had died from a heart attack which was brought on by his lifestyle.
Stu had started with nothing except his ability and expertise for the game which made this poker excellent a millionaire many times over.
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